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Basically it has everything to support itself though, Buckhead would be nothing with Midtown and Downtown. Santa Monica has enough housing, tourism, nightlife, and shopping to support itself.
Pretty much. Between commuters, tourists, and beach-goers, Santa Monica has an estimated daytime population of 250,000. It is quite the busy bee.
Basically it has everything to support itself though, Buckhead would be nothing with Midtown and Downtown. Santa Monica has enough housing, tourism, nightlife, and shopping to support itself.
Not true at all, and by stating this you obviously don't know Atlanta.
Buckhead is home to the regions financial district, the majority of our luxury hotels and about 90% of our upscale shopping.
It's always best to speak to what you actually know, not to what you've 'heard' or read somewhere.
Not the right comparison. Buckhead is more like Beverly Comparison
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The original comparison is so very far off from being a comparison of 2 areas that share similariites, hence my curiosity as to their choice here in this poll thread.
Beverly Hills & Buckhead share many more similarities but the wild card that makes that even a stretch is the fact of Buckhead's large size in square mileage which includes vast heavily forested, rugged areas of landscape. Because of this fact, any Santa Monica/Buckhead or Beverly Hills/Buckhead comparison here is almost an exercise in futility.
FYI: The green forest canopy of metro Atlanta is almost unparalleled in the U.S. among it's major cities/metros & one of the Atlanta area's chief aspects of charm & beauty.
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The original comparison is so very far off from being a comparison of 2 areas that share similariites, hence my curiosity as to their choice here in this poll thread.
Beverly Hills & Buckhead share many more similarities but the wild card that makes that even a stretch is the fact of Buckhead's large size in square mileage which includes vast heavily forested, rugged areas of landscape. Because of this fact, any Santa Monica/Buckhead or Beverly Hills/Buckhead comparison here is almost an exercise in futility.
FYI: The green forest canopy of metro Atlanta is almost unparalleled in the U.S. among it's major cities/metros & one of the Atlanta area's chief aspects of charm & beauty.
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Not true at all, and by stating this you obviously don't know Atlanta.
Yup. Buckhead is like a city within a city, and has a culture all it's own that is markedly different than the central city neighborhoods. But if someone only gets their info about Atlanta from reality TV, I can see why they would think something like that.
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I've been to Beverly Hills and driven all over it & up into the hills, as recently as in June. Can you say the same for your having personally experiened the many far-flung areas of Atlanta's Buckhead area?
Because of the far larger size of Buckhead geographically speaking at 28 square miles, as compared to Beverly Hill's small 5.7 square miles, along with the factor of Buckhead's Chathoochee River boundary area, the green canopy comparison you've cited here of Beverly Hills as being similar, is really off base. I've personally experienced the tree canopy of both to know.
Have you actually been to the extensive river areas of Buckhead I've referred to that are measured in many square miles to even know what I'm talking about? It's a green canopy as in the type of lush, dense, green foliage that is found in dense southeastern U.S. forests, an entirely different forest cover type from that found in the U.S. southwest over into SoCal. It is a fact that a similar or comparable type of cover does not exist in Beverly Hills to the degree that it does in Buckhead.
jamills21
I've been to Beverly Hills and driven all over it & up into the hills, as recently as in June. Can you say the same for your having personally experiened the many far-flung areas of Atlanta's Buckhead area?
Because of the far larger size of Buckhead geographically speaking at 28 square miles, as compared to Beverly Hill's small 5.7 square miles, along with the factor of Buckhead's Chathoochee River boundary area, the green canopy comparison you've cited here of Beverly Hills as being similar, is really off base. I've personally experienced the tree canopy of both to know.
Have you actually been to the extensive river areas of Buckhead I've referred to that are measured in many square miles to even know what I'm talking about? It's a green canopy as in the type of lush, dense, green foliage that is found in dense southeastern U.S. forests, an entirely different forest cover type from that found in the U.S. southwest over into SoCal. It is a fact that a similar or comparable type of cover does not exist in Beverly Hills to the degree that it does in Buckhead.
If your arguing that Buckhead is "greener" than BH that is one thing but you said that Buckhead had a rugged terrain and wilderness which BH has too.
I know the Beverly Hills topography & canopy cover from personal experience, both via auto & somewhat from exploration via foot. So, yes, they are basically 2 separate factors.
I earlier wrote regarding Buckhead as having ".. vast heavily-forested, rugged areas of landsape." which you highlighted completely in your reply noting that Beverly Hills did too.
There are more square miles of heavily wooded forest land in Buckhead than there is total square mileage in Beverly Hills.
Just out of curiosity I'll ask again if you been to Buckhead & if so, what part(s) did you see? Have you been to the Chattahoochee River area of Buckhead specifically?
Aside from the geographical area & forest canopy cover differences, the 2 areas do share a startling number of similarities.
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