``Atlanta is a second-tier city,'' said Jessica Harlan, 36, who relocated two years ago. ``New York is cooler and more exciting in every respect.''
``If my kids have a Southern accent, I will kill myself,'' said Brooklyn native Jodi Fleisig, an Atlanta resident since 1998. Fleisig said she tends to socialize with ex-New Yorkers, and finds inviting Southerners to lunch can be troublesome.
``Being Southern means you wait for someone to finish a sentence,'' she said.
