Well, I'll say this: The Atlanta market has been pretty good even through these lean times. It took me about 2 months after I decided to get serious about looking for work to land a great job at a major multinational firm, making a fine wage and programming in C#.NET and Visual Foxpro.
I had lots of other prospects as well. Maybe it's just me, but Atlanta seems healthy (enough).
Also, I'd like to point out that 100% of my coworkers are employed.
From Jim Wooten's column:
Gov. Sonny Perdue is off to Europe in search of new business for Georgia. If new business costs taxpayers as much as the former governor promised DaimlerChrysler, $320 million, we're too broke to buy it.