Presently, Atlanta is one of the most exciting cities in the United States. Having been relatively poor during the seventies and eighties, its quality of life has been steadily improving for about two decades now. Since 2000, its median income has been increasing about a thousand dollars a year. For the past six years, its population has grown faster than any other city in the United States. Last year, violent crime was at its lowest levels since 1969. Perhaps the most illustrative statistic, though: More single-family homes have been built in Atlanta than any other American city for not just the past year or two, but for the past thirteen.
