re: People Always Protesting In Atlanta

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Those tentacles aren't Atlanta. They're Mexico. Gwinnett has gone taco-flavored extremely quickly.

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Very true. Our neighborhood in Lawrenceville is rapidly becoming a English as a Second Language neighborhood. It's a shame too. Nice, older homes with mature trees in the yards, quiet streets, well maintained properties. . . Demographics are rapidly changing as the older folks die out or sell off to move on. A whole new section of new townhouses has gone up at the edge of the neighborhood for $420,000 each and another hundred units are in the process of being built.

Once peaceful evenings are filled with very loud mariachi music every Friday and Saturday night during the warmer months, accompanied by the sound of Hondas, Toyotas, and Nissans with spoilers and over-sized exhausts on them. (They kinda sound like a suped-up Singer sewing machine about ready to throw a rod.)

The wife and I are taking our coonhound and bailing for a much quieter rural scene. Gwinnett is in a rapid decline. Only thing I'll miss about it is putting the boat in at Abbotts Bridge and catching trout on the 'Hooch. But even THAT'S damned near impossible to enjoy in the summers when it's filled full of drunk, stoned, rowdy tubers who ruin the fishing and jam up the boat ramps.