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"Pickleball-Free American"
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Location: St Simons Island, GA
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Originally Posted by back2dc
Because Atlanta is the most absurdly ridiculous city in the nation (as well as on city-date) when it comes to exaggerating their urban credentials (or lack thereof).
All Atlanta is trying to be is Atlanta, so spare us your absurd and ongoing conjectures about what we want to be. It's laughable, really.
Yea because real cities have density and character, not look like suburbs and sprawl in every which direction like the A does.
I like density as much as the next guy, but I also love my space. Personally, I would love to live in a dense, urban dwelling, but if I had to move far out into the suburbs just to have a house and a yard, I'd hate life. I mean...I like my car.
I don't really see any except maybe in downtown more industrliazed area that is a bit east of DT. I was in Atlanta recently and driving around a bit... Was pretty pleased, while not super amounts of foot traffic out, it was very clean, green and modern. Significantly more so than Chicago which I was just coming from... So props to Atlanta for that. I also forgot how much topography Atlanta had. It was dramatically different than any other older city in the south I passed through and spent some time in recently (Louisville was pretty depressing looking). Honestly it looked a bit different than just a few years ago. Besides the suburbs starting way out, the dt city area really isn't that sprawled at all and it looks like there is more and more fill in going on, just could use some more foot activity. I am generally pretty harsh on Atlanta but I have to say, I was pretty impressed.
Who hell wants to come outside to look at nothing but bricks and concrete. I see nothing desirable or amazing living in an environment like that.
Ideally, I'd like the option of having both. All around density isn't fun, but neither is endless sprawl.
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