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Old 01-23-2015, 08:29 PM
 
Location: N.C. for now... Atlanta future
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F Vancouver. Atlanta is trying to be a better Atlanta and not F Vancooner
Agree!

Behold Atlanta's insecurities on display again. Stop WORRYING about others and be ATLANTA. And I'll take Atlanta's woods/creeks/rivers/hills over any waterfront any time. I know a lot of people love it, but water means little to me.
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Old 01-23-2015, 09:14 PM
 
Location: Atlanta
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Relax, guys. This is just curbed being curbed. They love attention-grabbing headlines.
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Old 01-24-2015, 06:31 AM
 
Location: Kirkwood
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The density is a plus. Not every building can be a architectural marvel, there will be plain buildings. These ate all mid rise buildings, only the tallest, most prominent buildings need to have great architecture. This building boom is starting to fill the gaps of the skyline, but why should we care what our city looks like to people 20 miles away driving in? We should care what our city looks like at street level, that's the human environment.
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Old 01-24-2015, 08:21 AM
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Vancouver
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Old 01-24-2015, 08:23 AM
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Vancouver really reminds me of Asian cities like Hong Kong. Its really not like anything else in North America other than NYC for its high rise density. But of course its much cleaner and prettier than NYC.
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Old 01-24-2015, 10:18 AM
 
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Agree!

Behold Atlanta's insecurities on display again. Stop WORRYING about others and be ATLANTA. And I'll take Atlanta's woods/creeks/rivers/hills over any waterfront any time. I know a lot of people love it, but water means little to me.
Altanta doesn't have much in the way of rivers or creeks. The city feels water starved. And you can't see Atlanta's hills which is why Atlanta felt flat to me. A place like Pittsburgh gives you the whole package woods/creeks/rivers/hills.
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Old 01-24-2015, 10:37 AM
 
Location: Atlanta
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Altanta doesn't have much in the way of rivers or creeks. The city feels water starved. And you can't see Atlanta's hills which is why Atlanta felt flat to me. A place like Pittsburgh gives you the whole package woods/creeks/rivers/hills.
Dude, what part of Atlanta did you live in? I notice rolling hills everywhere I go. I lived in Pittsburgh a while back, and it is hillier than Atlanta (particularly Mount Washington across from downtown Pittsburgh), but I find the cities to be comparable overall in terms of terrain. Wish we had more water features in Atlanta, though - Pittsburgh easily trumps Atlanta there.
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Old 01-24-2015, 10:38 AM
 
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Vancouver looks like the Brickell Financial District of Miami, as it is going through a major building boom forming great density after already having gone through a boom in 2008 and present boom doesn't seem like it is stopping anytime soon
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Old 01-24-2015, 10:57 AM
 
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If you took everything in Atlanta from Five points to Perimeter and lined it up along a waterfront we would easily hold our own with Vancouver. However, we have enough space down here to allow ourselves some elbow room and we have taken advantage of it.
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Old 01-24-2015, 11:20 AM
 
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Relax, guys. This is just curbed being curbed. They love attention-grabbing headlines.
Thank you! It' s just a bit of hyperbole designed to attract readers to the site. Its not a statement that Atlanta has rivers and mountains like Vancouver or is an exact replica of Vancouver down to every last detail. It's a comparison of the skylines due to the growth in residential highrises in Atlanta and even in that instance is not be taken literally.
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