Georgia 2nd Tier Cities, Why ALL THE HATE?

[yerocal]

Originally Posted by lilmusket

appearances are deceiving.. so what's the point? What's important? a city that looks bigger from a distance.. or one that feels big and urban when you are in the middle of it? I'm sure if you look at the overall density of the urban core of Columbus, Macon and Augusta.. they are pretty much the same. The Augusta metro just happens to sprawl over a greater area than the other two.. but as far as density.. the three are very comparable. The urban core of Savannah has a higher density.. even though it doesn't have a huge skyline.

I think you are trying to the jump gun on something thats not in the direction where you are trying to take this..... the guy above mention that Downtown Columbus and Macon look so much alike and the two comments made by myself and King X was that Macon's Downtown is more similar to Augusta because the both has noticeable small Skyline which Columbus Does NOT...... No one said that A skyline made any of the 3 no larger that the other.. So whats your point? Actually you wrong Macon MSA actually covers more area than Augusta MSA, Augusta MSA just has a larger Pop. But if the proper counties that share Economic tries with Macon were actually considered in Macon MSA it would probably be the 2nd Largest MSA in Ga.

In this area regardless whether or not the US Census does or not count them; the counties that are consider and known locally as apart of Macon MSA is Bibb, Monroe, Crawford, Jones, Peach, Houston, Twiggs, Baldwin, Laurens, Wilkinson and Bleckley..... Someone mention early how does Macon have larger amount of overall retail sq ft than Columbus when it "pop" is almost 200k but As I have always said Macon served as a hub for all of Central Ga and has a 22 county draw area with a pop over 700,000...

[johnatl]

^That really is quite a stretch to include all of those Counties in Macon's "fantasy" MSA. It really doesn't matter if the locals consider them to be legit - if the Feds don't agree, it is pretty much a moot point.

I have no doubt at all that some of those Counties use the Macon/Warner Robbins area as their shopping area, but if the commuter threshold isn't meant, they will not be counted as part of the metro.

[lilmusket]

Urbanized areas are much better reprsentations of what ppl are really trying to get out... the "built up areas" in and around a central city. The census provides this data, even with maps. When you look at the major highway maps nowadays from Rand McNally and others, they don't shade in city boundaries or MSAs but rather urbanized areas. In one census a county can be removed from an MSA and then return in the next even if no substantial new devt has occurred, as its all based on work commuting patterns.

[DEWITT DAVIS]

Macons invitation to visitors reads "welcome to the ghetto"!!! D.d.

[aug30909]

for all the augusta haters u suck lol augusta will still be the 2nd in georgia. Come on guys we have fort gordon joseph still burn center and mcg so augusta will grow!

[DeaconJ]

Originally Posted by aug30909

for all the augusta haters u suck lol augusta will still be the 2nd in georgia. Come on guys we have fort gordon joseph still burn center and mcg so augusta will grow!

...and The Masters...

[King_X]

There really arent many signs of Augusta or any other 2nd Tier GA city surpassing Savannah's overall appeal.

[DeaconJ]

Originally Posted by King_X

There really arent many signs of Augusta or any other 2nd Tier GA city surpassing Savannah's overall appeal.

Well, no...Savannah is one of the most appealing and popular cities in the South.