What city will Atlanta consume/merge with first? (Columbus, Macon: moving, rated)

[temi2004]

probably macon

[jasonman]

Atlanta will consume Macon and Augusta first.

[yerocal]

Originally Posted by jasonman

Atlanta will consume Macon and Augusta first.

I doubt it, not is this life time......

[ATLCOL1]

Originally Posted by jasonman

Atlanta will consume Macon and Augusta first.

Macon yes, Augusta no way....not in my lifetime. If Atlanta were to "consume" any city, it would be Macon, then Columbus, then Chattanooga. Augusta is wayyyy to far away from Atlanta....you are talking 120+ miles easily.

[cdw1084]

Originally Posted by ATLCOL1

Macon yes, Augusta no way....not in my lifetime. If Atlanta were to "consume" any city, it would be Macon, then Columbus, then Chattanooga. Augusta is wayyyy to far away from Atlanta....you are talking 120+ miles easily.

Atlanta needs to save Macon and make the city the area's third largest surburb, so it can stop losing 1,200 people a year on average!

[yerocal]

Originally Posted by cdw1084

Atlanta needs to save Macon and make the city the area's third largest surburb, so it can stop losing 1,200 people a year on average!

Man your postings are being exaggerated way to far and has no creditability You are just finding anything you can to bash Macon..... This questions is for everyone What feel more of a suburb Macon and Columbus.

[cdw1084]

Originally Posted by yerocal

Man your postings are being exaggerated way to far and has no creditability You are just finding anything you can to bash Macon..... This questions is for everyone What feel more of a suburb Macon and Columbus.

http://www.city-data.com/city/Macon-Georgia.html



My bad....Macon had 97,000 in 2000. Estimate 93,000 now....thats only 4,000 people in 7 yrs....really!!!

No creditability......when did you get a degree for this forum? please tell me?

[yerocal]

But the thing is No one left Bibb county, the pop just move out side the city to newly developed areas,which technically still apart of Macon.... Do you have a Degree?

[irishvanguard]

Valdosta will be the city to stop the Yankee advance.

[J2rescue]

I think the idea of Macon or Columbus becoming a part of metro Atlanta is a HUGE misunderstanding of what constitutes a metropolitan area and how metro Atlanta came to be defined as 28 counties.

First of all, you have to understand what a metro or MSA is - basically a central urban area and any additional counties that are economically linked to that central area above a certain threshold. That threshold is defined as 25% of a county's working population commuting for work into that metro. The most recent counties added to Atlanta's MSA are all very small counties with very little in the way of job opportunities.

Even if the areas between Macon and Atlanta becomes very developed, the closer that development gets to these other metros (Macon, Columbus), then they well be a part of those cities' metro areas, NOT Atlanta. The only way Macon or Columbus becomes a part of Atlanta is if a quarter of the working population has to commute to Fulton or Coweta or Henry which would make no sense.

Hall county is not a part of metro Atlanta because there is a big job base in Gainesville. If Atlanta hasn't "consumed" Gainesville or Rome, why would anyone think that it would happen in Macon or Columbus?

ITS JUST NOT GOING TO HAPPEN.

Its more likely that once more economic development occurs near Atlanta's exurban counties, for example in LaGrange, that some counties will break off from Atlanta as there will be less need for people living in those places to commute into metro Atlanta.

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