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Old 05-06-2012, 03:38 PM
 
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Originally Posted by ATLTJL View Post
The population of Atlanta is 10% of that number.

That number includes the metro area.

The city of Atlanta shouldn't be allowed to capitalize off the population of areas that are not actually Atlanta.

And those areas grew because of Atlanta No Atlanta no Metro...
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Old 05-06-2012, 04:46 PM
 
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I remember when..atl was ranked first as. The. Fastest growing city in america. Who is number 1 now?
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Old 05-06-2012, 04:50 PM
 
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Are you mad dc has the highest hiv rate in America? The truth shall set you free
Are there more gay men dc over atlanta?
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Old 05-06-2012, 04:53 PM
 
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Wow. Way to steer a thread off course. Why bring up HIV rates? You are very peculiar.

The thread is about the emptiest cities in America and the fastest growing cities in America. Atlanta is in a paradox and listed on both lists, which to me sounds like this whole Forbes ranking is a bunch of rubbish.
hiv is an important subject in atlanta also though.
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Old 05-06-2012, 08:12 PM
 
Location: Dallas, Texas
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The population of Atlanta is 10% of that number.

That number includes the metro area.

The city of Atlanta shouldn't be allowed to capitalize off the population of areas that are not actually Atlanta.

Its actually less than 10% but that's neither here nor there. Anyway, the population number is for the Atlanta area. city and county lines these days are virtually not a barrier. Metro area numbers are what truly count as city and burbs function as one. When people say Atlanta they certainly mean the Atlanta area.
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Old 05-06-2012, 08:25 PM
 
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Wow. Way to steer a thread off course. Why bring up HIV rates? You are very peculiar.

The thread is about the emptiest cities in America and the fastest growing cities in America. Atlanta is in a paradox and listed on both lists, which to me sounds like this whole Forbes ranking is a bunch of rubbish.
Emptiest and fast growing aren't necessarily mutually exclusive, but yeah, these lists are normally just nonsense. The writers pick half a dozen metrics they think might have something to do with whatever they are trying to rank ("empty", "fast growing", "bext for xyz"), tally the cities, and publish.

It doesn't matter whether the metrics are actually good indicators of whatever they are measuring, or that the computation is rigorous and accurate. The only thing that matters is getting a bunch of headlines in newspapers which generate free traffic for the website. The methodology only needs to be good enough to convince a normal reader who spends ~10 seconds looking at the methodology (if at all), or the editorial staff of a local paper, that there is some sort of real data behind the analysis. It works amazingly well from what I can see, which is why so many websites publish these inane lists.
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