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Article: U.S.-Style Capitalism Impresses Newcomers to Atlanta Area.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
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- December 14, 2003
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By Dave Hirschman, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Dec. 14--Natia Samkharadze doesn't recall ever thinking about money when she was growing up in Soviet Georgia.
Housing was subsidized, education and medical care were free, and lifelong employment was guaranteed -- so paying for things wasn't a big concern. Now an Atlanta resident, the 30-year-old insurance agent and mother of two says she and other immigrants from formerly Communist countries are, like the rest of us, intensely interested in financial matters.
Few immigrant groups would seem as ill-suited to American-style capitalism as those from ...