Bruce Nolan has a quote that captures nicely the way I feel about New Orleans, and choosing to leave it all those years ago. Substitute Atlanta for Chicago:
A friend who used to work at The Times-Picayune wrote me after Katrina. Her heart was breaking for the city. She said she loved New Orleans, but it made her crazy. She moved on. She said, “New Orleans is the man I’ll never get over. But Chicago is the man I’m supposed to marry.”
Can we have a long-sultry-on the DL-so I creep-type affair with the “man we’ll never get over.”
Just like Brokeback Mountain. But on of you will end up dead, and the other destitute.