Augusta, GA is becoming a huge city. I was shock as a native atlantan. Perfect time to get out of ATL (Columbus: condominiums)

[miranova]

Originally Posted by DisgustaSucks

Downtown business owners have been saying for years that they need more police in the district.. so that people will feel safe..and to combat the property crime downtown.. but steadily since 1996 the police presence in downtown has been reduced.. Augusta police are among the lowest paid of any city in Georgia over 50,000 in population. Downtown business owners have been asking for years for improved lighting.. and it still hasn't happened. Instead millions are wasted on pork barrel project like a golf hall of fame that was never built. and hardly anyone has ever visited, yet no one can explain what happened to over $20 million in tax dollars.. I guess Augusta got the most expensive brick wall in the world aside from The Great Wall of China. .

I remember seeing that brick wall with grass and a sidewalk for the first time as a friend and I were walking along the river....we had no idea what the hell it was. Our best guess was a dog park or rose garden.... who would have thought it was an empty golf hall of fame?
thanks, I needed a good laugh before bed!

[DisgustaTruth]

It's funny that you mention a dog park.. actually many dog owners have been using it as an unoffical dog park.. heck no-one else uses it.. and there is no dog park in Augusta.. But there was a proposal to make it officially a dog park one day out of the week... one day out of the week. Well as usual, the idiots on the commission had a fit. "A dog Park??".. "That copuld pose a health problem." "People could get hurt" "It will be pure mayhem." Never mind that cities big and small all over the country have successful, well-used and patrolled dog parks.. but the brain trust called the Augusta commission didn't know what a dog park actually is.. so of course it must be BAD... typical Augusta reactionism. Then you have the usual suspects who write the letters to the editor claiming all of the horrors a dog park wpould create. Of course this was only proposed to be a temporary dog park.. with plans to build a more permanent park.. It's not that hard to do folks.. you simply fence in an open area...make a double gate so dogs can't get out while others are entering.. and post a set of guidelines of conduct in the park.. and pretty much the dogowners police the park.. and this works in hundreds of communities across America.. But in Augusta.. this foreign concept of a "dog Park" must be the spawn of Satan.. or worse yet, Yankees! Oh my. So in typical Augusta fashion, the dog park idea was nixed...and the people who have taken up residence in downtown Augusta lofts and condos still have no place to take their dogs to play and socialize off leash. It would seem to me that a dog park would be a nice amenity to market to potential downtown residents.. it certainly has been so for other communities. But we are talking about Augusta.. which is its own little backward world.

[PJA]

First of all they didn't vote against the dog park just the location. Again get your facts straight.

[PJA]

I don't have incomplete results. Augusta's violent crime is lower than all of the other MSA's. That's a fact form the FBI statistics. If you have problem dispute it with them.

[DisgustaTruth]

sorry.. But once again you are wrong.. Athens has the lowest violent crime rate of any metro area in Georgia over 100,000 ppl. And I never said Augusta had the highest violent crime rate in Georgia.. it's doesn't (BUt then then again no one really knows the truth as Augusta doesn't report its numbers to the FBI)..BUt according the the numbers provided by Augusta's own sheriff's dept website Augusta has the highest rape rate of any MSA in Georgia. I have provided links to the FBI data tables.. you have not.

[matrixguy]

Originally Posted by DisgustaSucks

sorry.. But once again you are wrong.. Athens has the lowest violent crime rate of any metro area in Georgia over 100,000 ppl. And I never said Augusta had the highest violent crime rate in Georgia.. it's doesn't (BUt then then again no one really knows the truth as Augusta doesn't report its numbers to the FBI)..BUt according the the numbers provided by Augusta's own sheriff's dept website Augusta has the highest rape rate of any MSA in Georgia. I have provided links to the FBI data tables.. you have not.

Same bitter post about augusta everytime.

[PJA]

Originally Posted by DisgustaSucks

sorry.. But once again you are wrong.. Athens has the lowest violent crime rate of any metro area in Georgia over 100,000 ppl. And I never said Augusta had the highest violent crime rate in Georgia.. it's doesn't (BUt then then again no one really knows the truth as Augusta doesn't report its numbers to the FBI)..BUt according the the numbers provided by Augusta's own sheriff's dept website Augusta has the highest rape rate of any MSA in Georgia. I have provided links to the FBI data tables.. you have not.

I said out of the five major metros, Atlanta and the second tier metros. And I gave the link to the site, if you looked around you would have found all of the info you needed. But since you didn't here is the exact table.

Table 6 - Crime in the United States 2006

[MayorOfMacon2019]

Augusta is far from a huge city!

[DisgustaTruth]

I suppose Augusta, GA is a huge city if you are comparing it to a place like PUmpkin Center.

[MayorOfMacon2019]

LOL! So if Augusta is a huge city what does that make Atlanta.