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Old 08-05-2014, 07:24 PM
 
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I wouldn't even go that far. Sure, it's denser and is on a grid, but Seattle has basically the same housing and building stock as the City of Atlanta. Plus they lack a subway. Any city without a subway cannot be more urban than one with one.
No, they have something like a subway. It's crazy because it supports light rail AND buses. And the rail goes to the airport too.
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Old 08-05-2014, 07:34 PM
 
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Old 08-05-2014, 08:20 PM
 
Location: ATLANTA
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tour buses wow???
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Old 08-06-2014, 08:26 AM
 
Location: Home of the Braves
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Hey, look at this: the CDC just published the results of its annual survey on the happiest and unhappiest cities. NYC finished dead last, at #56. Atlanta did rather well, coming in at #13 -- just ahead of Houston at #14 and Dallas at #21. America's other "world-class" cities, including Los Angeles, San Francisco, Boston and Chicago, don't fare particularly well, either.

The happiest big cities in America: New Yorkers are miserable no matter how you adjust the data.
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Old 08-06-2014, 08:39 AM
 
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Last time I traveled to Europe everyone said that Atlanta was a great city and had met many people from there. Get over it Atlanta has made it! It only goes up from here!
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Old 08-06-2014, 08:46 AM
 
Location: The Greatest city on Earth: City of Atlanta Proper
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No, they have something like a subway. It's crazy because it supports light rail AND buses. And the rail goes to the airport too.
No, they do not have a Subway. They have a one mile long transit tunnel. It's interesting indeed, but not a subway.

Downtown Seattle Transit Tunnel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Old 08-06-2014, 08:04 PM
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Hey, look at this: the CDC just published the results of its annual survey on the happiest and unhappiest cities. NYC finished dead last, at #56. Atlanta did rather well, coming in at #13 -- just ahead of Houston at #14 and Dallas at #21. America's other "world-class" cities, including Los Angeles, San Francisco, Boston and Chicago, don't fare particularly well, either.

The happiest big cities in America: New Yorkers are miserable no matter how you adjust the data.
More important than the pretentiousness of claiming to be a "world class" city.
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Old 08-07-2014, 09:18 AM
 
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NYC, LA, SF, Chicago, Boston, and D.C. are probably the only cities in this country that can say they are world class.
I agree with this, and I'm tempted to throw Philly in also but it may not quite be there yet. Obviously it is further along than Atlanta in many respects, having been a big city for a lot longer.
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Old 08-07-2014, 11:13 AM
 
Location: N.C. for now... Atlanta future
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Fixed

OK, I surrender. You win. The best smackdown ever! Applaud you sir.
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Old 08-07-2014, 11:23 AM
 
Location: N.C. for now... Atlanta future
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Well here we go round and round again. Atlantans just can't seem to ever be comfortable.

I'll always stand by my opinion: Atlanta is young. It is even young by young America standards. It took most world cities centuries to grow into what they are today. New York City is 400 years older than Atlanta and London is 2,000 years older than New York. At one time several London neighborhoods were derided as contributing nothing to the urban fabric. Today many of these are hustling, bustling nodes of highly desirable areas.

Furthermore, Atlanta had the misfortune of growing big too fast. It slapped up suburban areas fast to provide housing for it's burgeoning population. It couldn't focus as much as it should have on neighborhood pattern. It also had the misfortune of growing up in the automobile/suburbia age. Most of it's population went to the fad of the times-suburbia (with all it's separation of development). Atlanta wasn't alone in this. The new sunbelt cities are struggling to develop urbanity where suburbia once existed. It's going to be a long slow process to practically rebuild whole sections of city to blend in commerce/dining/retail/work/living environments. It didn't happen overnight (or even over centuries) for the other cities. It won't happen overnight for Atlanta either.
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