"We just couldn't do it anymore," said Public-relations executive Scott Merritt, 35, who, along with his teacher wife and two kids, left New York for more-affordable Atlanta. "Eventually we had to say enough was enough. It was just no way to live, and I could see no way out." Merritt, who made an "above average" salary as a PR exec, and his family joined an estimated 40,000 New Yorkers who opted for the warmer, and more affordable, climes of Atlanta between 2000 and 2005. [NY Post]
