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Old 07-19-2012, 09:37 PM
 
Location: Atlanta's Castleberry Hill
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I believe for sure that Atlanta is on the verge of maturing to International greatness. Each great city have an orginal identity. Even if the transporation tax fails, Atlanta Beltline vision has the power to push Atlanta into an orignal identity. Why be like NYC, LA, Miami, or Chicago, when Atlanta can be orginal and create something that has never existed before. vision. Here's my list for the ingredients that makes a great international city. What would you add to this list?

1. Great Transit
2. Great Arts & Entertainment
3. Productive citizens
4. Great Educational instutions
5. Great Government in that of order.
6. Great Economy
7. Great family relationships
8. Great Media
9. Great Spirituality
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Old 07-19-2012, 11:11 PM
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Hartsfield airport & The Olympics. Add those two things & Atlanta will be great. Oh wait....

What a moronic thread.
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Old 07-20-2012, 01:05 AM
 
Location: Savannah GA
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Atlanta is already a great "international city" ... hello?!
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Old 07-20-2012, 01:17 AM
 
Location: East Point
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according to the wikipedia article on global cities:
Global city - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Atlanta ranks as an "Alpha-" global city. The other categories are "Alpha++", "Alpha+", "Alpha", "Beta+", "Beta", "Beta-", "Gamma+", "Gamma" and "Gamma-"

On the "Global Cities Index" we are #39.

On the "Global City Competitiveness Index" we are #31.

Atlanta also has 25 embassies. On an international scale, we're pretty big, but we're not Chicago, Washington, New York, Los Angeles big.
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Old 07-20-2012, 03:01 AM
 
Location: Atlanta, GA
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Even if the transporation tax fails, Atlanta Beltline vision...
It may have the vision, but it won't have the funding to achieve it.
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Old 07-20-2012, 05:23 AM
 
Location: roswell
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Lower tax rate for all.. We are sandwiched between two states that have no personal income tax... And now GA is trying to ram a new TSPLOST through that will not benefit most, and is simply a new revenue stream that will never go away despite what we are told.. Case in point the 400 toll both, and several other counties are paying what was supposed to be short term tax since 1972..
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Old 07-20-2012, 05:36 AM
 
Location: East Point
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Lower tax rate for all.. We are sandwiched between two states that have no personal income tax... And now GA is trying to ram a new TSPLOST through that will not benefit most, and is simply a new revenue stream that will never go away despite what we are told.. Case in point the 400 toll both, and several other counties are paying what was supposed to be short term tax since 1972..
ga 400 toll is discontinued, announced yesterday. the reason the other states have no income tax is that they raise revenue via a sales tax, which is exactly what t-splost is. seems like that'd be right up your alley.
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Old 07-20-2012, 07:51 AM
 
Location: International Spacestation
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I believe for sure that Atlanta is on the verge of maturing to International greatness. Each great city have an orginal identity. Even if the transporation tax fails, Atlanta Beltline vision has the power to push Atlanta into an orignal identity. Why be like NYC, LA, Miami, or Chicago, when Atlanta can be orginal and create something that has never existed before. vision. Here's my list for the ingredients that makes a great international city. What would you add to this list?

1. Great Transit
2. Great Arts & Entertainment
3. Productive citizens
4. Great Educational instutions
5. Great Government in that of order.
6. Great Economy
7. Great family relationships
8. Great Media
9. Great Spirituality
More Personality
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Old 07-20-2012, 08:06 AM
 
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Who in the Hell registers as 'International Greatness' now?
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Old 07-20-2012, 08:12 AM
 
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I don't think it will ever be considered an international city. Most people outside of the US haven't heard of it. But really, an international city needs a cohesive, highly populated city center that is walkable for tourists with access to history, wide ranging attractions, high-end retail etc. Downtown Atlanta will never be that.
Put it this way, if you got hold of a bunch of travel bucket lists from around the world, very few of them would list 'Eat some Arby's at the CNN center' along with 'Climb the Eiffel tower'......
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