And thats the way the whites and the Blacks prefer it. Roswell is a middle class city.average suburbia. A large number of Atlanta celebrities live in Alpharetta's score of country clubs including Usher, Whitney Houston, and Ludacris.
Alpharetta is a city full of rich people. North Fulton: Home to Alpharetta and Roswell. You'll be hard pressed to find whole communities of wealthy residents. Most of Gwinnett aint so well off though. Blacks live everywhere in Gwinnett County and so do the Asians. Everything in ATlanta is self segregated according to class and race. You have your dirt poor areas like Norcross where the Mexicans live and your upper middle class areas like the Sugarloaf Country Club in Duluth where the rich white people live. Gwinnett: Diverse!!! Like every race on Earth lives in Gwinnett County and the people of Gwinnett are very proud of that. The exception of course are those that reside in East Cobb where most live in homes around 800-900,000 dollars. Most everyone in the county stays in homes that are priced from the 200s to the 400s. South Cobb is Black but still middle class, although you wouldnt know it by the way many of the kids act in cities like Smyrna and Mableton. East Cobb is the richest area where homes dont exist at prices beneath 500,000 dollars. Cobb County: Cobb County is largely white and mostly middle class. If that happens Sandy Springs will become the richest city in Georgia. Hispanics stay along Roswell Road in apartments but the new mayor, Eva Galambos, has already vowed to tear down alot of the run down apartments along Roswell road and turn then into condos to"prtect the image of the city". THE BURBS: Sandy Springs: A recently incorporated city just north of Buckhead. Notice I did not mention Clark Atlanta because that school is ghetto as hell, but many take pride in that fact. The gated campuses of Morehouse and Spelman are the only nice attrations on the southside of ATlanta. Downtown: Boring.but home to many coporate headquaters and tourist attractions like the Georgia Aquarium, Grant Park, the CNN Center, Centenial Olympic Park, the MLK Center, etc. Because Atlanta was invaded by Northerners and Westerners(its hard as hell to find a native Atlantan), people here are very progressive and all races and lifestyles are respected. Midtown: Midtown has some great restaurants but is known for two things.Piedmont Park(Atlants's largest and nicest park) and being the hub of Atlanta's large gay community.
30327 is a purely sickly wealthy residential community in West Buckhead and was rated the most affluent zip code in the southeast.The kids that grow up in 30327 have no concept of reality whatsoever. If you are woman looking for a Black man in Atanta you might wanna shy away from Buckhead because most likely you would end up being your man's cover.
Most Black gays are DL and "straight acting" so most people cant identify them. Buckhead is also the center of Atlanta's amazingly large Black gay community. This district is also home to the city's best dining options, along with the best night spots. High class shopping(Versace, Lois Vuitton, Gucci, Armani, etc.) can be found at Lenox or Phipps, two huge malls right accross the street from eachother. It's an unspoken rule that if you have money and you live inside Atlanta, you shouldn't subject your kids to the horrors of public schools. Most of the people that hail from Buckhead grew up in million dollar mansions and went to an elite Buckhead private school. Here is a breakdown of Atlanta and her suburbs: ATLANTA: Buckhead(Uptown): This is the wealthiest community of the metro area. Atlanta is the capital of the south as the cultural, business, and spiritual center hub. So, as you might expect, living in the burbs is not a status symbol in Atlanta because just about everyone does. Only 400,000 people live within Atlanta city limits while 4 million people live in the suburbs. When most people referance Atlanta they mean to referance metro Atlanta which would include the suburbs.