Real talk about sprawl (Sandy Springs, Roswell: tax, to live, malls)

[SLIMMACKEY]

Originally Posted by arjay57

Gee, it looks to me like the inner ring suburbs are booming.

Mine is....but the natives are kinda restless. They dont like to see minorities walking down Roswell road in Sandy Springs. So they wanna do away with the apartment complexes...all of which have had facelifts and are not eyesores whatsoever.

[BobKovacs]

Originally Posted by arjay57

That's debatable, but the Wikipedia list is probably fairly close. In general, the term usually mean the neighborhoods that experienced rapid development after cities began to decentralize. In Atlanta, that typically means from late 1940s through the 1960s, although the boundaries are not clear cut.

List of inner suburbs in the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Hmmm.....I don't see any cities/areas on that list that are "seeing their demise", nor do I see any of the "outer suburbs" up by me seeing it either (I assume that's what my area would be considered). There's still plenty of building going on- not at the insane levels of 5 years ago, but at a pace that I'd call "normal"- and plenty of folks are still moving in.

[RoslynHolcomb]

Originally Posted by SLIMMACKEY

Mine is....but the natives are kinda restless. They dont like to see minorities walking down Roswell road in Sandy Springs. So they wanna do away with the apartment complexes...all of which have had facelifts and are not eyesores whatsoever.

They tried to do something similar in Dunwoody. They were going to buy a couple of complexes on Winter's Chapel and turn it into a sport's complex. The voters didn't go for it, but I suspect that if the economy picks up those complexes are history. After all that was one of the rallying cries for cityhood.

[toll_booth]

Originally Posted by cqholt

The inner ring suburbs are seeing their demise. Soon these areas will become concentrations of poverty. What's bad is most havelimited transit, so the poor and working class find it hard to search and keep jobs concentrated in other areas. There needsto be an even dispersal of all income types across the region.

This is an underrated problem. Remember all those service cuts that MARTA was forced to make? For middle-class transit riders, they were just a hassle. For working-class riders, in some cases they were (and still are) a real problem. They made getting from point A to point B even harder than it was before.

[SLIMMACKEY]

Originally Posted by RoslynHolcomb

They tried to do something similar in Dunwoody. They were going to buy a couple of complexes on Winter's Chapel and turn it into a sport's complex. The voters didn't go for it, but I suspect that if the economy picks up those complexes are history. After all that was one of the rallying cries for cityhood.

I remember that! Its crazy cause I stand out like a sore thumb in my subdivision. And when I tell you the foot traffic from those apartments has no impact whatsoever on those subdivisions!!! I will say this, the ones on Winters Chapel right before Pchtree Industrial need a facelift. Thats about it.

[cqholt]

Her, it looks to me like the inner ring suburbs are booming.

So stone mountain, tucker, norcross, and others are booming? Sandy springs and Dunwoody are not similar to the others. It was well documented in the census that suburban poverty raised 50% morethan urban.

[Onthemove2014]

Originally Posted by cqholt

The inner ring suburbs are seeing their demise. Soon these areas will become concentrations of poverty. What's bad is most havelimited transit, so the poor and working class find it hard to search and keep jobs concentrated in other areas. There needsto be an even dispersal of all income types across the region.

You are nuts if you think that. If that was the case I'd see about buying a home In Dunwoody or Sandy Springs right now because they are perfect.

[SLIMMACKEY]

Originally Posted by Onthemove2014

You are nuts if you think that. If that was the case I'd see about buying a home In Dunwoody or Sandy Springs right now because they are perfect.

Thanks...we appreciate that!!! They arent quite perfect but like my realestate agent told me when I boughtt back in 05, Dunwoody living is GOOD living. I concur....

[Onthemove2014]

Originally Posted by SLIMMACKEY

Thanks...we appreciate that!!! They arent quite perfect but like my realestate agent told me when I boughtt back in 05, Dunwoody living is GOOD living. I concur....

I hate suburbs but I'd settle with a intown/inner suburb if that means affordability, safe neighborhoods, good schools and nice homes. Dunwoody gives you all you need from a suburb without all the sprawl and distance from the city and permiter center has a marta.

[cqholt]

Dunwoody is not the typical inner ring suburb. Stone mountain is the better example. Dunwoody gets tax money from all those office building.