re: Visited Atlanta for the first time in 10 years - holy moly what a shithole!

You gotta be in Alpharetta/Milton man. Everybody knows that. Nobody goes downtown unless you have jury duty or something.

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.

Place frickin sucks now. I don’t go inside 285 if I don’t have to.

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t the varsity. Paid a shite ton of money for mediocre food.

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Welcome to 1985.

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Big cities that are "nicer" than ATL
Austin
Fort Worth
San Diego
Columbus
Charlotte
Nashville
Boston
Raleigh
Miami

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Those are big cities to you?

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Ok, so ATL ranks 9th in the country in your opinion

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Unranked with no votes in my personal poll.

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.

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

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I don’t go inside 285 if I don’t have to.

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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!

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But reading the OP this has just happened. WTH? But I believe everything I read on the internet, how dare you tell them this.

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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.

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.