Boston vs Atlanta as a place to LIVE (best, state, better)
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When people talk about history as a positive for a city, I don't think they're necessarily talking about the ability to go out and visit historic sites. I think they're talking more about the intangible sense you get on a daily basis that you're somewhere important. I used to live in a house that was built in 1760, and I only really thought about it once every couple of weeks -- but every moment I was there, I got the general sense of something greater. Entire cities can give you that feeling, too. Boston certainly does. And of course, it's not limited to the East Coast, but you'll find a greater concentration of it there.
There are a ton of ugly buildings everywhere. But Boston also has this:
Unfortunately, Atlanta is situated in Georgia which is a racist state. Boston is also quite institutionally racist, but at least its people are overwhelmingly liberal. I feel bad for minorities in the South.
Here we go.Liberal states are just as bad as conservative states/Georgia aint no more racist than California or Canada for that matter.
More black people moving from all over to GEORGIA,not just Atlanta/
Im a black man originally from South Georgia whos parents moved back after they retired from working in the Atlanta areas.
My sister raises her son in the same sity we grew up when we were smaller..
Please dont talk about what you know nothing about.
I've never understood their thinking on this building, except that they deemed it somehow avant-garde. It's even worse seeing it up close and personal, ugly and completely out of sync with its environment. Bostonians hate it, too, BTW.
City Hall is a very good example of changing tastes and subjectivity in criticism. A lot of people today don't realize that when it opened, it was widely praised by architecture critics. One highly respected critic even called it the greatest building ever constructed.
Don't get me wrong here, I agree that it's terrible. I get that the city is stuck with it, but what I don't get at all is why major renovations have never been done to the adjacent plaza, which everyone agrees is a huge failure as a public space. The building itself is pretty much stuck there, but there's no reason the plaza couldn't be reconfigured into a great public gathering place.
City Hall is a very good example of changing tastes and subjectivity in criticism. A lot of people today don't realize that when it opened, it was widely praised by architecture critics. One highly respected critic even called it the greatest building ever constructed.
Don't get me wrong here, I agree that it's terrible. I get that the city is stuck with it, but what I don't get at all is why major renovations have never been done to the adjacent plaza, which everyone agrees is a huge failure as a public space. The building itself is pretty much stuck there, but there's no reason the plaza couldn't be reconfigured into a great public gathering place.
The 60's weren't a good decade for Boston buildings. We also got this state owned gem.
Here we go.Liberal states are just as bad as conservative states/Georgia aint no more racist than California or Canada for that matter.
More black people moving from all over to GEORGIA,not just Atlanta/
Im a black man originally from South Georgia whos parents moved back after they retired from working in the Atlanta areas.
My sister raises her son in the same sity we grew up when we were smaller..
Please dont talk about what you know nothing about.
+1, covert racism is sometimes harder to fight than overt racism at times.
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