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Why is New York City being discussed in this thread?
Someone from Atlanta got offended when I said Birmingham has a higher per capita income than Atlanta and then tried to put NYC down by posting facts from 10 years ago saying Atlanta is higher median income than NYC.. another Atlanta poster came in to say that 70% of NYC is full of monotonous apartment buildings giving it a bland and boxy look like Atlanta..
waronxmas, when I get off work I will address your shenanigans
HAHA, I love this. The Atlanta basher are posting all kinds old or wrongfully used data and when they are called out and shown wrong they find something else to bash. I mean come on. Get a life or something.
1. Montgomery has lower traffic and commute times then both but that is because it's smaller so it should. Your argument is pointless.
2. The cost of living is very similar and I'm from Alabama. Alabama has a raping sales tax.
3. The unemployment is also lower in North Dakota but is that really a big enough plus? Besides that the unemployment in Bhan is not that much lower.
4.I'm from Alabama and the people are no more nice or nasty in Georgia. You are grasping straws.
WHAT! First of all, the things I posted were things that make Birmingham more superior. In these times with HIGH gas prices, having shorter commute times and driving smoothly through traffic are far more superior than sitting in traffic for long periods and having to drive about an hour to work. Second of all, Birmingham is a place in which, despite its influx of transplants, have not LOST its southerness and Southern hospitality. Atlanta has literally taken thousands and thousands of people from the Northeast, which in the end result, has equale to it losing alot of its southerness and hospitality. Also, Birmingham's cost of living is lower than Houston's!!!!! And for you to put down your state to take up for Atlanta is low as hell, especially when you MISINTERPRETED my post!
Honestly If there were more development and cohesion between the two I don`t think Birmingham would want to be part of the Atlanta CSA.
The Birmingham CSA is only 1.2 million with 8 counties.
The Atlanta CSA is well over 5 million with 25 counties.
So of course Atlanta will and should be superior to B-ham.If you were to compare B-ham to other metros that are similar in size it is doing pretty well and holding it`s weight down.B-ham`s skyline hight and density ranks in well if not better than others that are the same size.B-ham`s economy is just as diverse and strong as others that are similar in size as well.
And with a metro that is almost four times the size of B-ham Atlnata is no more diverse than B-ham,Montgomery,Huntsville, or Mobile.
So, if you are going to make a charge, at least do your homework.
Ok well maybe Atlanta have a lot of White people and Black people. However, Atlanta is still not as diversed. In order for a city to be diversed it needs to have many types of races in a large amount.
HAHA, I love this. The Atlanta basher are posting all kinds old or wrongfully used data and when they are called out and shown wrong they find something else to bash. I mean come on. Get a life or something.
No one is trying to bash Atlanta, we are discussing Atlanta.
Someone from Atlanta got offended when I said Birmingham has a higher per capita income than Atlanta and then tried to put NYC down by posting facts from 10 years ago saying Atlanta is higher median income than NYC.. another Atlanta poster came in to say that 70% of NYC is full of monotonous apartment buildings giving it a bland and boxy look like Atlanta..
waronxmas, when I get off work I will address your shenanigans
The facts were from the 2009 5 years ACS by the Census and showed a difference of $10,000 in Atlanta favor....
Atlanta has a higher median household income than NYC CMSA, but not their MSA. NYC's MSA had a MHI higher by about $5,000/year.
Now you continue to ignore them, misrepresent them, and choose to look at the wrong stats just because you found one thing that fits your preconceived view of Atlanta.
Any other posters can look at my post earlier in this thread and read up on the issues of measuring and comparing income much better.
First of all, the day the Atlanta and Birmingham CSA's are combined, ill run down the street nude with a bottle of champagne and two glasses in hand. Second, what would be the benefit of this combination for the average person?. Birmingham is nowhere close to being on par with Atlanta, and its been a known fact since 1960.
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Ok well maybe Atlanta have a lot of White people and Black people. However, Atlanta is still not as diversed. In order for a city to be diversed it needs to have many types of races in a large amount.
First off it is diverse, not "diversed". Secondly, compared to whom? Most big cities will follow the pattern of having a very large amount of one or two groups of people and smaller percentages of two or more others.
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