Atlanta Would Be the Perfect Place to Live, Only If.... (Savannah: mortgages, house)

[sayforee]

Originally Posted by IMISSNY

Atlanta would be better, if

the jobs paid more
if you had more job security and barginning power
if we had better goverment
if we did away with some of the hiring process for law enforcement
if everybody in management stop trying to hire there cousins and hired qualify people
if our children had a better school sytem
if we had tougher gun laws
if we had some type of subway system to and from work
if we could work and make a decent wage for the hard work we put in.

wait I must have thought I was in the north, ATL would be perfect if it was NY

The only way jobs would pay more is if the cost of living was higher like NY. I would hate to have similar cost of living to NY. I would much rather have it like ATL.

[sayforee]

and to add:

Atlanta would be a perfect place to live if every street wasn't named Peachtree. LOL

[PalpatineJones]

Originally Posted by mdiggs1

What do you mean by turtles

Turtles...people against new things, people against this or that for whatever reason, people that move slow, think slow, drive slow....turtles....the fat woman on the escalator when you are running to catch your train. The City is for the nible, the country is for turtles. When the population doubles/grows the turtles will weed themselves out of the city. They won't be able to hang.

[PalpatineJones]

Originally Posted by waronxmas

...people from the burbs who came from small towns or a suburb in another city, and only come in the CoA for a big ticket event, stop saying "There's nothing to do in Atlanta", "The city has gotten worse since (insert mystical time when Atlanta was supposedly better than it is now)"

...when (not if) the Beltline gets built and the streetcars come back. People forget it took almost 30 years to finish the current incarnation of MARTA. It won't happen over night people.

...people who throw insults at the South and Westside and have never even walked around in it. Trust me, the chances of having something more serious than being panhandled happen to you is pretty slim.

I agree, only certain types complain about bums, the other type is used to city life and can deal. It takes conditioning. People in cold adapt, people in heat adapt, people in a city adapt. The insecure hate to adapt.

[PalpatineJones]

Originally Posted by AcidSnake

I guess the way MARTA does business is a bit archaic & doesn't stand up to the realities of maintaining a large transit system. My guess is that the structure of MARTA like a lot of things in Georgia and the south is antagonistic. It's like everything in this state is designed so that people can have their little fiefdom and rule it like warlords/barons, regardless of how inefficient it is.

I'm just disappointed that the "Conservatives" in this state don't live up to their own hype when it comes to finding a free market solution for our issues(not that I truly believe there is one, of course). What they rather do is throw out simplistic & naive solutions like "less taxes!", "fairtax!" and seemingly push secession every chance they get & think somehow by doing so they will have found the cure for cancer, or whatever perceived ill that plagues society.

Anyways, I hope that the next Governor of this state will actually have SOME type of vision beyond his(or her) 4 years in office and will actually create some long term solutions for the transportation situation. No more low-brow "bubba-think", I'd say!

Interesting post ASnake, would you like to see Marta charge the way DC Metro charges? I actually like the price system the way it is. Set rate for any one way. IMO the train is going to run its course anyway, why charge the individual more? If we both get on at Airport Station, you get off at Oakland City and I get off at Peachtree Center the train is still going to go to Doraville or North Springs anyway so why should I pay more?

The money that goes into building roads around the state should be the same money invested in rail. Even though we have some that say "hey I don't use Marta, whey should I pay" Its a quality of life thing. Same reason everyone has to have an emissions test on their car, and the fact that ATL Metro area has to use special gas. Mass Transit makes the quality of life better.

[mssexyhoneybrwn]

They had weather like San Diego, CA..

[citygirl410]

Atlanta would be the perfect place to live if.....
.....it were closer to the ocean (I miss being near the beach!) AND
.....if we got a little more snow in the winter

[thedudewiththeplan]

If there was more snow in the winter and most of the suburbs and exurbs OTP did not exist!!!

[AcidSnake]

Originally Posted by PalpatineJones

Interesting post ASnake, would you like to see Marta charge the way DC Metro charges? I actually like the price system the way it is. Set rate for any one way. IMO the train is going to run its course anyway, why charge the individual more? If we both get on at Airport Station, you get off at Oakland City and I get off at Peachtree Center the train is still going to go to Doraville or North Springs anyway so why should I pay more?

The money that goes into building roads around the state should be the same money invested in rail. Even though we have some that say "hey I don't use Marta, whey should I pay" Its a quality of life thing. Same reason everyone has to have an emissions test on their car, and the fact that ATL Metro area has to use special gas. Mass Transit makes the quality of life better.

Quite honestly all I want is for everyone in Georgia to get on some kinda of common ground when it comes to paying for services that WE ALL have the potential to enjoy at some point in our lives. I don't care how MARTA is operated whether it is public or private as long as those who are not as well-off can use it without interruption.

There is a wealth of examples of how mass transit is operated in the U.S. & other countries & how they are funded so if there is a perceived problem with MARTA there is nothing that's stopping the Governor & the State Legislature from intervening. Nothing I guess, except a peculiar need to use MARTA as a wedge issue to keep themselves in office.

[staywarm2]

Originally Posted by JakilaTheHun

If you think ATL is bad, the rest of the South is even worse. Large portions of the South still function under the "Good Ole' Boy" system.

You think we don't have the "Good Ole' Boy" system? What about our Governor? Now there's a true "Good Ole Boy" who uses the system to great advantage--for himself!!