Mobile,Columbia,Chattanogga, Tallahasse, Charleston VS Augusta, Columbus, Macon, Savannah, Athens

[Saintmarks]

Originally Posted by Bulldawgfan

(nevermind the spelling errors, we dont care 'bout no spelling)


We? We? What, you got a mouse in your pocket?
Let me fill the newcomer in. Firstly... WELCOME Saintsmarks! We all have fun on here throwing our opinions out there and bantering back and forth over petty little issues... but it is all in fun. EXCEPT if you have a less than stellar opinion of Macon. If that is the case (GOD forbid) then be ready for a barrage of posts as to how your opinion is wrong and how your one goal in life is to bash Macon. In all the other cities we talk about on here it is OK if you think it is not the nicest place in the state. Others will counter your post with their own opinions and the end result is a fun exchange of ideas and thoughts. But Macon... well... be prepared if you do not see Macon as the center of the universe, heaven on earth, utopia and so on and so forth. You are absolutely not allowed to have a negative opinion of that place. Be prepared.

Thanks for the nice welcome Bulldawg, and uh, you to yerocal. I am in Texas now and miss Georgia so bad it hurts. My college roommate has been in Macon for ten years now, he likes it, but also knows it is somewhat backwards in many ways. That can be said of any small southern city. Hey, Atlanta and Charlotte and the Florida boomtowns have some backwards aspects as well if you look for it.

Yerocal, what I am saying is I have seen your posts several times already in differing threads and it has gotten old in less than a month of my discovering this site. I liked hearing of the new things coming to Macon, am excited about it, but the other day I went to the Georgia pictures thread, hoping to see a lot of varied and beautiful pictures of my much missed and beloved home state and after the thrid page it had digressed into nothing more than you and a poster from Columbus boosting his own city and tearing the other down. No one else was posting any pictures and a nice thread was reduced to multiple pages of the two of you bickering.

I hope with all my heart that Macon would take off and be the new growth center for the whole south, be the new Nashville or Raleigh or Orlando, but it hasn't happened and while I am sure it will post some respectable growth, I can't see any reason for it to take off like that. Perhaps it will merge into greater Atlanta in the next few decades, but be the next Charlotte? I like Macon just fine, but c'mon.

All the best to you Georgians, appreciate it for all it is because I ain't there and want to be.......SM

[trentgreen]

I agree georgiatransplant disaugusta knows augusta is becoming a huge city he's just in denial.

[trentgreen]

How could a person dislike a city so bad that he names him self after the city.

[joeyrun]

Originally Posted by trentgreen

I agree georgiatransplant disaugusta knows augusta is becoming a huge city he's just in denial.

Augusta is becoming a huge city. The downtown and suburbs are growing every day.There are several massive interstate projects going on in the metro area. Like this one in Aiken County

[g-man430]

Define the word "huge"? Huge as in Atlanta or huge as in Columbia?

[CaptainAwesome]

Honestly, I don't want Augusta to be 'Huge' like Atlanta. Atlanta just has too much sprawl. You can only get around by car, unless your lucky enough to live and work near the train.

I'd much rather Augusta just become 'cool' like Chattanooga. Also, those interstate pictures are ugly.

[afonega1]

Originally Posted by g-man430

Yeah. VW decided a week or two ago. You should look at what Greenville used to look like 20 years ago. Hyatt came in and changed everything.

HYatt?or BMW?

[bgnzsavnh]

Originally Posted by Saintmarks

I only found this site this month and I have already gone from bewildered amusement to a point of imaptience with the one upmanship of some of the posters from Augusta, Columbus and Macon. Hey, I am a Georgia native and I like all these places and appreciate the things that make each of these cities unique. Each one has its problems to deal with, but they are all second tier cities and I don't see that changing in the foreseeable future.

I love Atlanta, love that it is growing from a regional city to a truly international city, but there are times I wish that Georgia was a little more like North Carolina where the growth has been more evenly shared. I would like to have seen some of the phenomenal growth that Atlanta has experienced transferred to the second cities. I mean, metro Atlanta has been adding a Macon in population every year for the last three decades.

By comparison, Charlotte has grown from a small city to a major city with professional sports and phenomenal growth, but Raleigh/Durham and Greensboro/Winston Salem have grown as well, much moreso that the Georgia cities outside Atlanta. I really would rather see Augusta, Macon, Columbus and Savannah have the growth that Raleigh, Durham, Winston Salem and Greensboro have seen in the past decades and Atlanta grow at a little less frenetic pace.

But you Augusta and Macon boosters, ease off a little. It is nice that development is coming to your areas, but you don't have to go on and on with the same facts and figures (along with the bashing of your own fellow statesmen) that I have already found in numerous threads.... and I've only found this site this month!

Keep Savannah out of this "phenomenal growth" thing.
Now I can see new houses from my front porch. The hell if I want to see them in my backyard.
nimby

[lolo2]

Originally Posted by g-man430

Define the word "huge"? Huge as in Atlanta or huge as in Columbia?

Columbia and Augusta are the same size now