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Posted on 5/20/24 at 9:12 pm to TDsngumbo
You gotta be in Alpharetta/Milton man. Everybody knows that. Nobody goes downtown unless you have jury duty or something.
Posted on 5/20/24 at 9:12 pm to SteelerBravesDawg
Well, it *might* be closer to Charlotte but there is zero question Atlanta is closer to New Orleans than Salt Lake City.
the fact is Atlanta is high crime city with unfavorable demographics, a shite downtown, and it's once elite neighborhood Buckhead is trying to pull a St George.
Big cities that are "nicer" than ATL
Austin
Fort Worth
San Diego
Columbus
Charlotte
Nashville
Boston
Raleigh
Miami
the fact is Atlanta is high crime city with unfavorable demographics, a shite downtown, and it's once elite neighborhood Buckhead is trying to pull a St George.
Big cities that are "nicer" than ATL
Austin
Fort Worth
San Diego
Columbus
Charlotte
Nashville
Boston
Raleigh
Miami
Posted on 5/20/24 at 9:18 pm to GreatLakesTiger24
Ok, so ATL ranks 9th in the country in your opinion. That's a higher ranking than your Tigers
Nobody has ever said that Atlanta is the best city in the world, but Atlanta has hosted the Summer Olympics, World Cup, World Series, NCAA Championships, Super Bowls, etc. which has achieved far more than any of these big cities you mentioned
Austin
Fort Worth
San Diego
Columbus
Charlotte
Nashville
Raleigh
ATL also has the best airport in the world... so we have something going on here. But to sit and call it a dump of an area is absurd.
And for being the a top 10 metro in population, the entire metro has a lot less crime than other big city metros. Is there crime in Atlanta? Of course, but not nearly as bad as you want to make it out to be.
Nobody has ever said that Atlanta is the best city in the world, but Atlanta has hosted the Summer Olympics, World Cup, World Series, NCAA Championships, Super Bowls, etc. which has achieved far more than any of these big cities you mentioned
Austin
Fort Worth
San Diego
Columbus
Charlotte
Nashville
Raleigh
ATL also has the best airport in the world... so we have something going on here. But to sit and call it a dump of an area is absurd.
And for being the a top 10 metro in population, the entire metro has a lot less crime than other big city metros. Is there crime in Atlanta? Of course, but not nearly as bad as you want to make it out to be.
This post was edited on 5/20/24 at 9:21 pm
Posted on 5/20/24 at 9:20 pm to TDsngumbo
That's all cities now. Downtowns are overrun with the homeless and beset with high crime. The basic level of common decency is long gone and with it any hope for the American inner-city.
This post was edited on 5/20/24 at 9:21 pm
Posted on 5/20/24 at 9:23 pm to TDsngumbo
Place frickin sucks now. I don’t go inside 285 if I don’t have to.
Posted on 5/20/24 at 9:23 pm to bountyhunter
Downtown Atlanta is basically a work schedule.. After 5:00 it empty's out because there aren't many residential places to live in downtown. People work in downtown and drive home to the suburbs
Midtown is actually a late night city. A lot of stuff is still hopping after midnight every night because of the Georgia Tech Housing, Condos, apartments, etc.
Midtown is actually a late night city. A lot of stuff is still hopping after midnight every night because of the Georgia Tech Housing, Condos, apartments, etc.
This post was edited on 5/20/24 at 9:26 pm
Posted on 5/20/24 at 9:27 pm to LSURep864
quote:Welcome to 1985.
t the varsity. Paid a shite ton of money for mediocre food.
Posted on 5/20/24 at 9:34 pm to TDsngumbo
quote:
and if you know anything about me,
I quit reading there. No one knows anything about you or cares about your opinion. It’s a frickin message board for crying out loud. You aren’t famous.
Posted on 5/20/24 at 9:35 pm to GreatLakesTiger24
quote:
Big cities that are "nicer" than ATL
Austin
Fort Worth
San Diego
Columbus
Charlotte
Nashville
Boston
Raleigh
Miami
Those are big cities to you?
Posted on 5/20/24 at 9:39 pm to FLTech
quote:Unranked with no votes in my personal poll.
Ok, so ATL ranks 9th in the country in your opinion
and crime in Atlanta is only “not that bad” if you’re comparing it to New Orleans or Jackson. Atlanta even copied New Orleans with its interstate murder problem.
Posted on 5/20/24 at 9:40 pm to Porter Osborne Jr
They both have a higher population than ATL
Posted on 5/20/24 at 9:41 pm to BabyTac
Buckhead was by far the most overrated place I’ve ever been. Nothing cool about it at all
Malls, chain restaurants, homeless and a St Regis hotel
Malls, chain restaurants, homeless and a St Regis hotel
Posted on 5/20/24 at 9:53 pm to GreatLakesTiger24
quote:
They both have a higher population than ATL
The city, but they are dwarfed in regard to the metro areas.
Posted on 5/20/24 at 9:55 pm to Griffindawg
quote:
I don’t go inside 285 if I don’t have to.
I was single when I lived there. Prior to the "no Trumpers" dating movement, there was the "no OTP" movement 20 years ago.
Do you all remember how bad the area around the GA Dome was in 99/00?
The closest place to get cash was where you wanted a turret gunner. West of 85 until you hit Austell or Marietta-ish, it was trash. South ATL? A wreck. I presume it has declined in the last few years, but even back then I had to tell people not to take MARTA from the airport to their hotel/office if school was letting out. NE didn't speak a whole lot of English. Even in Va-Hi, every gas station visit requires a high level of diligence.
New Orleans is a shithole, but ATL is a bigger (literally) shithole. NOLA has arguments (which are never adjudicated) but cost Teedy's first class costs, and other questionable spending. ATL farks everyone that flies through Hartsfield via grift, etc., every day. Corruption? Shiny object over there!
Posted on 5/20/24 at 10:02 pm to LemmyLives
quote:
I was single when I lived there. Prior to the "no Trumpers" dating movement, there was the "no OTP" movement 20 years ago. Do you all remember how bad the area around the GA Dome was in 99/00?
But reading the OP this has just happened. WTH? But I believe everything I read on the internet, how dare you tell them this.
This doesn’t fit the narrative at all.
Posted on 5/20/24 at 10:11 pm to Clark14
quote:
But reading the OP this has just happened. WTH? But I believe everything I read on the internet, how dare you tell them this.
The point of the post was to highlight that the decline of ATL isn't new. Neither is the state of MSY in the last 20 years.
I don't know when the peak was for ATL, but I have more WTF crime stories and anecdotes than I do about MSY or BTR, and I lived in LA for almost 20 years. 3 years in ATL was differently dangerous. MSY seems to prey on dumb drunk people, ATL, if you're getting gas or a haircut in the wrong place, you have a problem in Southern Fulton.
Posted on 5/20/24 at 10:49 pm to One Arm Steve
quote:
The entirety of the Metro ATL, absolutely dumps on NOLA and even comparing the two laughable.
North & south metro Atlanta at roughly the I-20 line (and north around I-285) is like two different countries.
Look at a map of metro Atlanta. On I-20 W to E, go from Douglasville to Covington. Then going south, draw a semicircle connecting those two cities via Palmetto, Fayetteville, Griffin, Jackson. Each of those cities, and all of them inside that semicircle, are ruined.
Crime, low IQ residents, increased traffic but proportionally fewer road improvements & so on. These areas fell off a cliff in a single generation. Anyone who lives there now is a fool or ignorant of their situation, like a frog in boiling water.
Posted on 5/20/24 at 10:54 pm to LemmyLives
I live 15-20 miles north of Atlanta and haven't been to Atlanta, except for the Atlanta Airport, in probably 10 years. I really didn't know people actually went to the city of Atlanta for anything other than work. Only good places in and around Atlanta are straight north in Alpharetta, Milton, Cumming area. Cobb county is a shite hole just like Gwinnett now.
Posted on 5/20/24 at 11:25 pm to LemmyLives
quote:
The point of the post was to highlight that the decline of ATL isn't new. Neither is the state of MSY in the last 20 years. I don't know when the peak was for ATL, but I have more WTF crime stories and anecdotes than I do about MSY or BTR, and I lived in LA for almost 20 years. 3 years in ATL was differently dangerous. MSY seems to prey on dumb drunk people, ATL, if you're getting gas or a haircut in the wrong place, you have a problem in Southern Fulton.
On a lesser scale is Pine Bluff, Arkansas. In the 70s it was a place to go to shop and movies and such and was safe, not anymore. And Little Rock is a place you don’t want to be when the sun goes down.
Without trying to make this a racial issue but state fact, when white flight from these cities happened so did the money and businesses.
It’s not isolated incidences, it happens everywhere in the south. Or everywhere the money leaves major areas due to folks dying off or people leaving. It’s not new and will continue to happen. Kids are born and grow up and leave to make a living and don’t come back. It happens everywhere.
No one is safe from this possibility. Another will be built and face the same fate in the future.
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