The Holtonian

Things I'm looking forward to about Atlanta

Top 5 minute things I'm most excited about moving to Atlanta:

5. Most likely we'll have a Dominos that will deliever to our house or even better be close by. I LOVE DOMINOS as far as the big pizza chains I think its by far the best. Sure I'd rather have Lupis (Something I will definately miss about chatty), but sometimes you want a quick pizza thats cheap. Here on the Mtn the only place that will deliver is Mr. T's. And the only other option for pizza in this area is Pizza Hut. Both of these options are awful as Mr. T's is just weak pizza and Pizza Hut is just grease with cheese.

4. Decent News Casters. Lets face it the Chattanooga news teams are subpar. I grew up in St. Louis which had decent news casters and watching the news here is just painful. I'm not trying to sound like a snob or anything but half the people on the news here are ugly and the other half can't read a teleprompter.

3. Pro Sports Teams. The Lookouts are actually really cool and I'm glad chatt has them here as its cheap fun with good hotdogs and cheaper beer than the pros. But I'm a pro baseball fan and going to the bravos games really excites me. Also catching a few hockey games will be kind of fun too, I mean that's like cheap entertainment in Atlanta, does anyone go to those games? Falcons games?? Well if I want to see Vick play awful then it should be fun, but I'm not a huge pro football fan, frankly I'd be more interested in seeing Georgia Tech play. I can possibly anticipate getting tickets to a Hawks/Spurs games if they ever play each other. That'd be a nice treat for the wifey who's a big spurs fan.

2. New Restaurants. I'm an eater, and frankly I feel like I've been to just about every decent restaurant this city has to offer. There's a few new ones that have sprung up recently, but I've been to most everything. Eating out at Lunch at work got really lame because everything downtown is the same. I recall some of our conversations at work were soley based on "Where do we want to eat...?" These conversations would go on for hours because there just wasn't all that much downtown that we hadn't done to death. It'll be cool finding new local places in Atlanta that are great. We'll definately have to find the Atlanta version of Lupis. Theres already a few restaurants I'm looking forward to, Dunkin Doughnuts is in the lobby of my office building... this could be very dangerous for my waist line. Willy's, its like Moes but slightly better.

1. Decent Radio Stations. The radio stations up here are pretty abysmal. Trying to find a station that actually plays music and not commercials is impossible. 96.5, 105.5, 98.1, 104.5, 95.3 these are all just eh. 96.5 is the worst as it never plays music anymore and if it does its stuff that I recall listening to in Jr. High. 96.5 there is music other than Nirvana and Pearl Jam! Up here on the mtn sometimes I can pick up a few Atlanta stations and I'll listen to them and hear Beck... and not Loser, but rather his new stuff or his off the wall stuff.

I say all this not to condescend Chattanooga, its one of the greatest cities I've lived in... so far I've lived in two, and I will say chattanooga is a 100 times better than St. Louis.... If Chattanooga had the Cardinals and the Cardinal Fanage here it would be the perfect city. Its really the perfect size, its on the upswing as far as revitalization, its real outdoorsy (which I like), great restaurants (Even though I've eaten at most of them), great old homes, great bars, great hamburgers, great people, most of all the people.