Would I like to live in an area where I'd be surrounded by atheists nearly every time I left the home? Sure. I like the idea of being completely open with regard to my thoughts about religion. But realistically, I'd happily settle for being surrounded by people who kept their thoughts on religion to themselves.
If I was going to take a photography class, would I prefer that most of the other students in the class were atheists? No, not really. What I would prefer is that the other students in the class kept their thoughts on religion to themselves since I would expect religion to be thoroughly irrelevant to the subject matter and to the reasons we were taking the class. The only way I'd prefer that the class be full of atheists would be if my only choices were between atheists and religious individuals who were unwilling to keep their religion to themselves.
Suppose that a particular form of political activism was very important to me (e.g., reproductive rights, the environment, feminism) and I wanted to get involved as an activist at the local level. It seems like I'd find plenty of like-minded people in a group devoted to that goal, regardless of whether they were atheists. As long as they could keep their religious beliefs to themselves, it wouldn't matter much how many atheists there were.