We drive from FL to MN via South Carolina for the sole purpose of avoiding the traffic hell that is Atlanta.
We have good friends who moved off from metro ATL to L.A.
That would be Lower Alabama.
They both grew up in Atlanta, lived here forever - and they will NOT come visit us because they’d have to come thru ATL to get to our bit of exurbia. They simply will not go to ATL any more. We’re visiting them briefly next week as we head to the FL Panhandle coast for a week.