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Old 11-01-2013, 03:09 PM
 
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And the places ranked higher than us, actually have alternatives. We have NONE!

Not an option for most.
You have none out near SC but we have options ITP
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Old 11-01-2013, 03:13 PM
 
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And the places ranked higher than us, actually have alternatives. We have NONE!
Public transit is certainly not an option if you elect to live many miles away from it. In order to make public transit work you have to settle somewhere close to it (or convince your local government to run it out your way).
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Old 11-01-2013, 03:24 PM
 
Location: Decatur, GA
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Public transit is certainly not an option if you elect to live many miles away from it. In order to make public transit work you have to settle somewhere close to it (or convince your local government to run it out your way).
I "settled" where I was born, and haven't been able to escape yet. I am tired of this elitist attitude by intowners that everyone is always able to just up and change their whole life whenever they want!
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Old 11-01-2013, 04:07 PM
 
Location: Ono Island, Orange Beach, AL
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I "settled" where I was born, and haven't been able to escape yet. I am tired of this elitist attitude by intowners that everyone is always able to just up and change their whole life whenever they want!
That's not elitist. That is economic reality.
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Old 11-01-2013, 04:11 PM
 
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I "settled" where I was born, and haven't been able to escape yet. I am tired of this elitist attitude by intowners that everyone is always able to just up and change their whole life whenever they want!
I just don't understand how you can live a long way away from transit and then complain that you are too far away from transit.

MARTA does a pretty decent job of covering the 800 square miles in Fulton and DeKalb. GRTA, Cobb and Gwinnett also offer public transit lines that connect with the MARTA system.

If you can't find some satisfactory place to live within those areas, then frankly -- and no offense intended -- that's your own doing.

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Old 11-01-2013, 04:14 PM
 
Location: Ono Island, Orange Beach, AL
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I just don't understand how you can live a long way away from transit and then complain that you are too far away from transit.

MARTA does a pretty decent job of covering the 800 square miles in Fulton and DeKalb. GRTA, Cobb and Gwinnett also offer public transit lines that connect with the MARTA system.

If you can't find some satisfactory place to live within those areas, then frankly -- and no offense intended -- that's your own doing.

Arjay - You owe it to folks to start a shuttle service. :-)
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Old 11-01-2013, 04:21 PM
 
Location: Decatur, GA
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I HAVE NEVER HAD ENOUGH MONEY TO MOVE! WHAT PART OF THAT DOES THIS BOARD NOT UNDERSTAND!?!?!?!? I was born in an area with ZERO NONE NADDA transit, and reached working age right when the recession hit so there was no one hiring out here, believe me, I looked far and wide, McDonalds, Home Depot, O'charley's, mom and pop stores, I wasn't too picky, but the places were, they didn't want to hire a student. The few places I did find, it would have cost MORE in gas just to get there than I would be earning.

CCT and GCT are nothing to look at either, both have chopped routes left and right with little warning, and the routes they do have are either ridiculously long and meandering local routes, or just run during the peak periods. Transit outside the rail lines we DO have sucks.
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Old 11-01-2013, 04:36 PM
 
Location: Ono Island, Orange Beach, AL
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I HAVE NEVER HAD ENOUGH MONEY TO MOVE! WHAT PART OF THAT DOES THIS BOARD NOT UNDERSTAND!?!?!?!? I was born in an area with ZERO NONE NADDA transit, and reached working age right when the recession hit so there was no one hiring out here, believe me, I looked far and wide, McDonalds, Home Depot, O'charley's, mom and pop stores, I wasn't too picky, but the places were, they didn't want to hire a student. The few places I did find, it would have cost MORE in gas just to get there than I would be earning.

CCT and GCT are nothing to look at either, both have chopped routes left and right with little warning, and the routes they do have are either ridiculously long and meandering local routes, or just run during the peak periods. Transit outside the rail lines we DO have sucks.
I was born a farm 200 miles south of here. It's about working hard and looking to take advantage of opportunities. I appreciate the fact that you and many others were amongst those so impacted by the recession that began as you were entering the work force. Yes, that does suck. After 23 years of Intown living I moved to the burbs. And, as you know, public transit isn't very convenient out here either.

As the economy improves those opportunities will start opening up for you. Just keep the faith and keep plugging away.
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Old 11-01-2013, 07:05 PM
 
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I just don't understand how you can live a long way away from transit and then complain that you are too far away from transit.

MARTA does a pretty decent job of covering the 800 square miles in Fulton and DeKalb. GRTA, Cobb and Gwinnett also offer public transit lines that connect with the MARTA system.

If you can't find some satisfactory place to live within those areas, then frankly -- and no offense intended -- that's your own doing.

MARTA still has a terrible coverage for a 5.5M metro. I can point to probably 10 metros around the world with a lower metro population that has better and a more extensive transit. Most of them being in Europe and Asia where people are actually pro-transit and understand the necessity of it in a large established modern human settlement.

But hey, this is Atlanta's fault for sprawling to the point to where it's nearly 3 times larger in land area than the Paris Metro which has 2 and half times the metro population.
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Old 11-01-2013, 07:08 PM
 
Location: St Simons Island, GA
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I'm crying buckets.
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