Is Atlanta a transient city? Would YOU put roots down here? (Auburn: middle-class, quality of life)

[johnatl]

tomno00 - There is no shortage of chain restaurants in ANY major metro area of this country. Atlanta is no exception to this, but knowledgable well traveled people also know our restaurant scene is not lacking here - at all.

[Bizurko]

Originally Posted by TSQQST

Good point, but it's too late for that. I doubt that it would make much difference. The only waterway that would make Atlanta more desirable is a giant flush of toilet water.

i guess you did want to get embarrassed ok kid what are you doing posting on grown up forum do you know what the data in city-data means it means information or is that too big of a word for you if your just going to bash a city and not base it on any facts go back to middle school and leave the adults to there conversation oh wait while the big people talkie is that more understandable? Good anything i can do to help our countries idiots lets me know i'm doing my part.

[Bizurko]

Originally Posted by tomno00

god bless you. thank you for understanding my stuggle. Everyday I wake up I wish I was in Miami. But anyways my original comment about the poster that stated something was missing in atlanta.... it certaintly isn't the shortage of chain resturants (which is true- just one negative (or positive) aspect of living in the atlanta area). I don't know why that got spun into talking about SWFL. For that, i apolgoize.

i believe it was the part about an applebees and ruby tuesdays making up the fine dining in Atlanta which has no basis behind it whatsoever and then comparing it to sw fl which sw fl has no business being brought up when your referring to real cities.

[tomno00]

John -
I’m not going to doubt that there are lovely and unique privately owned restaurants in the Atlanta area. However, the Atlanta area is HUGE (in terms of area) and it still continues to sprawl outwards. So saying there are some nice restaurants here or some hippie and cool places over there doesn’t really help unless you live in that particular area. The metro Atlanta area itself is the least densely populated metro area in the country. It’s the biggest thing I dislike about Atlanta – sprawl and limited connectivity between the whole metro area. And that's why I could care less about population figures in Atlanta. I'd be more interested in seeing density figures - higher density usually translates to better quality cities (in my opinion)

[MikeandIke27]

Originally Posted by tomno00

haha you can talk crap about whatever place you want. I dislike fort myers almost as much as i dislike atlanta. But there are more local eateries here in this little city that there is the entire metro atlanta area

Im from Florida and I have been to Ft meyers and Naples plenty of times your overly exxagerating when you say that.

[MikeandIke27]

Originally Posted by DTL3000

I didn't say it wasn't significant but compared with many other areas it's just not all that much and I agree that this city does a poor job of exploiting that history. The fact is the city probably would like to keep a lot of its pre-civil rights movement history under wraps. Also, the civil rights era wasn't really all that long ago and, like it or not, doesn't have the flashy appeal of say Revolutionary war era history.

Atlanta isn't alone in this predicament. It's just a young city compared to places like New Orleans, Boston, DC, or New York. What little history I know of Dallas is pretty boring.

Compared to those yeah but compared to most metros NO!! it doesnt lack..

[MikeandIke27]

Originally Posted by arjay57

With all due respect, folks who claim Atlanta doesn't have a fascinating and rich history simply aren't paying much attention. Spend a few days at the Atlanta History Center to get your bearings, and then start exploring. And reading. There are literally thousands of books, articles and papers regarding our town's history. There are extremely extensive collections at Emory, Tech, AUC, Georgia State, and at major libraries like AFPL Downtown and on Auburn Avenue, as well as scores of other places.

If you start checking things out, you'll be blown away.

The problem is they wanna see it with there eyes. In DC you can literally see washington monument and Lincoln center and see the history etc. I guess since its not visible to the eye to some there is none.. When I go to Philly I dont think about all the history there or the liberty bell etc. I usually first recognize the Dirth and fealth everywhere..

[tomno00]

Originally Posted by MikeandIke27

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Im from Florida and I have been to Ft meyers and Naples plenty of times your overly exxagerating when you say that.

And I was born and raised in the atlanta area. Refer to my previous post. Maybe there are more local eateries in atl, but the SWFL area wins the local eatery per square mile pretty easily

and again... I really could care less about SWFL. I dont plan on being here too much longer.

[TSQQST]

Originally Posted by Bizurko

i guess you did want to get embarrassed ok kid what are you doing posting on grown up forum do you know what the data in city-data means it means information or is that too big of a word for you if your just going to bash a city and not base it on any facts go back to middle school and leave the adults to there conversation oh wait while the big people talkie is that more understandable? Good anything i can do to help our countries idiots lets me know i'm doing my part.

Well, you can start by improving your spelling, punctuation and grammar. But I guess that's par for the course when Georgia consistently ranks at the bottom of all states when it comes to education.

[TSQQST]

Originally Posted by MikeandIke27

The problem is they wanna see it with there eyes. In DC you can literally see washington monument and Lincoln center and see the history etc. I guess since its not visible to the eye to some there is none.. When I go to Philly I dont think about all the history there or the liberty bell etc. I usually first recognize the Dirth and fealth everywhere..

"Dirth and fealth"? Your spelling is almost as bad as Bizurko's. Oh, wait a minute. Could it be? Hmmm?