Those are wise words and I think it is important to always find the good in any place. There are plenty of things I like about Alpharetta and was just having a little fun with the things I don’t like. It is a great place to raise a family, it offers so many activities and many nice people. I love that your kids have friends from around the world and will always encourage our kids to do the same. If Alpharetta keeps going it will trully be a great melting pot, just the change in the year we were gone was a amazing. It is important to realize how fast this growth is happening. See if you can dig up the number of people of color in Forsyth county in 1990? Hopefully with that change will come some great new thinking.

Ironically I live in the same small town and voted for the non-incumbent with the ordinary name.

I think it is unfair for you to slam “the south” for the unique characteristics of Alpharetta. Most of the people I know are from somewhere else. They are from California, New Jersey, Illinois if they vote in the elections. They are from Canada, Ukraine, India or Korea if they do not.

I have a personal theory as to why Alpharetta is so conformist and conservative. When people leave the city or state they were born and raised in they are frightened and looking for a substitute for the community life. The mega churches in our area offer the sense of belonging and identity. These churches are often led by traditional southern clergy, who preach politics on Sundays. Hence a community of northerners becomes the second most republican district in the United States (after Orange Co. California).

At the same time we have one of the most diverse international populations in the United States. Alpharetta High School (which you apparently shunned without really knowing anything about it) has students born in 50 different countries. My child has close friends from Korea, Ukraine, Syria, India, Canada, China and Mauretius.
Her soccer coach is from Georgia (the country) and her clarinet teacher is from Russia. Oddly, you often hear Chinese, Russian, Spanish or Portugeuse in the hallways.

My daughter partakes of the rich diversity available in her school and is getting a great education in AP and honors classes. We travel, and she has a great desire to see all parts of the world.

Yes, Alpharetta can seem small, if all you see of it is the DUIdebbie website. But if you open your heart to Alpharetta, you would find a community with tremendous diversity, where young people are learning to know and respect many world cultures.

“A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.” Thomas Jefferson

Methinks you are trying to rationalize

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P.S. How’s it going?