I'm confused by Atlanta -- it seems like a very racially polarized place, but it's not split across wealth/professional status/etc. like the racial polarization in SFBA -- it's just parallel everything by race, which is even weirder. I actually know more black people in Atlanta than I know white people, since a lot of the black military officers I met (who tend to be middle or upper middle class, either going in or coming out) had some connection to Atlanta.

There seemed to be a lot of interest in business startups, but not the kind of scalable tech startups you would find in the Bay Area -- more like consultancies or other professional services. Still, a good way to a $200-300k/yr income. They may have been as much a "getting out of the Army" thing as an Atlanta thing, though.