Atlanta...America's true 24 hour city (Buckhead: living in, night clubs, to eat) - Georgia (GA) - Page 9 - City-Data Forum

JoeTarheel · 09-23-2012, 11:14 AM

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Originally Posted by ATLTJL

I think a lot of people underestimate how many of these people there are.

It's not just low level jobs, either. Every hospital has doctors and nurses staffed 24 hours a day. Every TV station and newspaper has a 24 hour newsroom staff. Tons of various companies that do international business have late night staffs to do business with parts of the world where our middle of the night is their middle of the day. As the world grows globally, so does 24 hour business operations.

Let's also remember that even for places that don't have full 24 hour shifts, there is a growing number of people who choose to work alternative hours to support business or avoid traffic. So let's say you even work something pretty close to normal, like 11a-7p or 12p-8p. There's probably not enough time to get too many things before work (and it's generally tough to get things done before work anyway), and if you get out at 7p or 8p, it can be difficult to get things done before 9p.

You should sit outside your local 24 hour Kroger on a random Tuesday night at 2am sometime. If you chat with the people coming in, you will find that almost all of them are just regular people with regular jobs, not people who are up to no good.

You should read my posts a little more carefully if you are going to respond to them...you and a couple of other people seem to love misinterpreting my words and it's very irritating. If you like irritating people then fine, but I assume that isn't your intention so I suggest you try to understand the meaning rather than taking one little phrase out of the entire post and misdirecting it.

I even said that I loved shopping at 2 am because there is hardly anyone in the store. Of course grocery shoppers aren't "up to no good" - they are shopping. Duh.

ATLTJL · 09-23-2012, 12:38 PM

Joe, I wasn't responding directly to you, I was just using your quote as an example of the sentiment. I think it was actually someone else who said that people out after midnight are up to no good, I just didn't go back and grab that quote when switching gears and addressing that point. So I wasn't challenging what you said at that point.

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I can't recall ever running across a doctor or a newsman who was just getting off work.

Are you sure? Doctors don't wear their scrubs or labcoats on the way home, many of them look just like any other person. In fact, they often look a lot worse than other people if they have pulled a 20 hour shift in the ER. And nurses look just like any other people, as do operating room techs, orderlies, MRI techs, and all of the ancillary staff that often works late into the night. The same thing is true with newsmen. You may not see Monica Kauffman or a guy with a hat that says PRESS on it, but the newsroom is also staffed with writers, editors, IT people to fix machines, a whole crew of people that look like anybody else when they are at Kroger at 2am.

Febtober · 09-23-2012, 01:20 PM

I parked 4 blocks away from my apartment the other night at around 1am. On the walk home I decided to count how many businesses were open. There were 5 24/7 bodegas, 3 "sit down" style restaurants, 3 bars, 2 chinese food take out joints, 2 liquor stores, 2 24 hour laundromats, and 1 24 hour grocery store.

So there's 18 businesses open in 4 blocks of Manhattan for you at 1 in the morning, in a non-tourist neighborhood.

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Originally Posted by tonygeorgia

Ok. Nice list and thanks for backing up your claim. Out of those 231 listing maybe 50 are 24 hours. Good List. I was dissing any city in particular I just wanted to see proof.

Where are you getting that only 50 of them are 24 hours? I couldn't filter by 24 hour restaurants, so I put a filter on for a specific time because there's a pretty solid chance that if a restaurant is open at 5am on a weekday, it's 24 hours. And again, this only lists places on Yelp, which does not include bodegas, the vast majority of which are open 24 hours and there are hundreds upon hundreds throughout the city.

arjay57 · 09-23-2012, 01:29 PM

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Originally Posted by ATLTJL

Are you sure? Doctors don't wear their scrubs or labcoats on the way home, many of them look just like any other person. In fact, they often look a lot worse than other people if they have pulled a 20 hour shift in the ER. And nurses look just like any other people, as do operating room techs, orderlies, MRI techs, and all of the ancillary staff that often works late into the night. The same thing is true with newsmen. You may not see Monica Kauffman or a guy with a hat that says PRESS on it, but the newsroom is also staffed with writers, editors, IT people to fix machines, a whole crew of people that look like anybody else when they are at Kroger at 2am.

You could be right. I never talked to any people like that, but then I am ultra shy and don't talk to many people period.

FlyingFox · 09-24-2012, 08:10 AM

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Originally Posted by ATLTJL

If we could take all the hodge podge 24 hour places located throghout the city and concentrate them in a single area, we could actually have a fairly decent 24 hour zone. I know you can't just order all the 24 hour places into a zone, I'm just saying it would be cool if they did somehow concentrate in a specific area.

If they planned this for Atlantic Station, it would have been cool. "24-7 Atlantic Station... where Atlanta is always awake!" Then you'd have one spot in the city with a perfect central location where people could go to for food, entertainment, minor shopping, a haircut, etc. at 3:00 am.

In fairness, there ARE 24-7 establishments but like you said they are spread out. Ex: FedEx, Walmart, drugstores, some fastfood and diners, etc. Put them all together and people would be more likely to make the trip.