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Old 04-30-2019, 05:18 AM
 
Location: Orange Blossom Trail
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Man this is crazy I wasn't aware Atlanta had this level of abandonment. It doesn't look anywhere near as bad as Detroit, St.Louis or Baltimore. But still crazy.


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It will be gentrified soon enough.
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Old 04-30-2019, 08:03 AM
 
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Man this is crazy I wasn't aware Atlanta had this level of abandonment. It doesn't look anywhere near as bad as Detroit, St.Louis or Baltimore. But still crazy.
Other than the trash on the street and the unkempt landscaping of vacant lots, these areas don't look all that bad to me.

Bring in a crew to pick up trash and trim the bushes and it would be night and day.
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Old 04-30-2019, 11:10 AM
 
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Every time I look out the window of the MARTA train between Five Points and the airport I cringe and say, "I can't believe I live HERE."
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Old 04-30-2019, 11:37 AM
 
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Other than the trash on the street and the unkempt landscaping of vacant lots, these areas don't look all that bad to me.

Bring in a crew to pick up trash and trim the bushes and it would be night and day.

If he drove up Lowery Blvd, it would look way worse, but alot of these were the side streets of Lowery. Sadly in metro ATL, you cant even go off looks on how bad an area is now, as these folks take their bad behavior to the suburbs and you wonder why a nice looking area in Stn Mtn, Lithonia or Decatur has the same type of crimes as the neighborhood he just drove through.
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Old 04-30-2019, 01:09 PM
 
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Every time I look out the window of the MARTA train between Five Points and the airport I cringe and say, "I can't believe I live HERE."
Lol. This was actually my first view of ATL, and I remember telling my wife that I passed through some shady areas on the train! Funny enough, since moving here, I've yet to re-see an area like the one I saw on the train (I haven't ridden MARTA again since), and we like to get out and about quite a bit.
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Old 04-30-2019, 06:52 PM
 
Location: Atlanta
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Every time I look out the window of the MARTA train between Five Points and the airport I cringe and say, "I can't believe I live HERE."
My introduction to London was on the train through South London.

Atlanta is about 160 yrs old, London is about 2,000 yrs. old.

It looked like a junk, auto salvage-yard for seemingly about 30 miles.

Atlanta Southside to airport isn't pretty but it's a feature of every major city, and more pleasant than a lot of others here in the US.
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Old 04-30-2019, 06:55 PM
 
Location: Atlanta
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Other than the trash on the street and the unkempt landscaping of vacant lots, these areas don't look all that bad to me.

Bring in a crew to pick up trash and trim the bushes and it would be night and day.
But here in Atlanta people love having every street covered in trash.

And don't think it's just a big city thing, very few US cities have as much litter everywhere as Atlanta.
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Old 05-01-2019, 07:11 PM
 
Location: Lake Spivey, Georgia
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The downtowns of College Park and parts of East Point are kind of "small town cute" (really College Park, more so than East Point) the Lee Street park north of Fort McPherson does have a "declining industrial" look to it, but as another poster said EVERY large city has a similar area that you don't want to "show to company", and even THERE you can see the green tree lines of our forested municipality. Seem to me the rail lines often go through the more industrialized areas of even small towns since those were the areas they were mostly built to serve to start with.
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Old 05-01-2019, 08:00 PM
 
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The poor have to live somewhere right? You can't gentrify the entire city, maybe make the bad areas smaller and more concentrated but they will always exist.
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Old 05-02-2019, 06:06 AM
 
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I've yet to re-see an area like the one I saw on the train (I haven't ridden MARTA again since), and we like to get out and about quite a bit.
I think it's not a really dangerous neighborhood where people live, just a highly industrial area that looks extremely dumpy. Still, someone should do something to try to clean it up at least a little since it's the first impression so many people get of the city.
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