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Atlanta's black women are stright. They ain't the best looking and ain't the worst looking.
They are nice, but their "collective beauty" shall I say is over-rated..Pretty much the same assesment can be made about the Atlanta metro itself...lol...
for every beautiful woman there is an ugly mud-duck right around the corner....usually, the"friend" of the beautiful woman...LOL
They are nice, but their "collective beauty" shall I say is over-rated..Pretty much the same assesment can be made about the Atlanta metro itself...lol...
for every beautiful woman there is an ugly mud-duck right around the corner....usually, the"friend" of the beautiful woman...LOL
Beautiful women almost always seem to have a less attractive friend that they let hang with them. I've been wingman to talk to the "mudducks" a few tikes myself.
LOL..so Best Southwest is akin to Lithonia/Stone Mountain/Riverdale/Jonesboro!?!?! Yuck...
I'm just saying that they're demographically similar. Mostly Black middle class neighborhoods, not quite as glamourous as their northern suburb counterparts, but there are nice neighborhoods there. I guess you have a problem with that, given your uneccesary "yuck" comment.
However, I think that Stone Mtn has some rougher parts than Best Southwest. I personally wouldn't live in Jonesboro/Riverdale either.
I think that SW Fulton County/Camp Creek area west of I-285 is nicer than Stone Mtn and Lithonia. Maybe that is a better comparison to at least Cedar Hill/DeSoto
I know that some of these comparisons are based mostly on racial demographics and I don't personally know enough about the Atlanta Metro Area to make comparisons, but other than that, there are some notable differences between the Dallas' Best Southwest cities (Cedar Hill, DeSoto, Duncanville, and Lancaster) and the Atlanta suburbs of Lithonia, Riverdale, Jonesboro, and Stone Mountain. The Best Southwest cities are much larger in population and are faster-growing, have median household incomes that are closer to or exceed state averages, and generally have lower crime rates than the Atlanta suburbs the area is being compared with.
Median Household Income [Stats from City-Data]
$42,919 Riverdale (84.4% of State Avg. Median HH Income)
$43,213 Stone Mountain (85.0%)
$34,690 Jonesboro (68.2%)
$26,191 Lithonia (51.5%)
$50,861 GEORGIA
$65,356 Cedar Hill (130.6% of the State Avg. Median HH Income)
$62,708 DeSoto (125.3%)
$56,138 Duncanville (112.2%)
$47,573 Lancaster (95.1%)
$50,043 TEXAS
Population Growth Rates, 2000-08 [U.S. Census Bureau Estimates]
22.45% Riverdale
7.89% Jonesboro
8.23% Lithonia
7.07% Stone Mountain
39.55% Cedar Hill
38.11% Lancaster
26.36% DeSoto
0.08% Duncanville
City-Data Crime Index Scores (2008)
Riverdale (595.0) 2007 Score, 2008 N/A
Jonesboro (568.4)
Lithonia (506.5)
Stone Mountain (245.3)
Cedar Hill (260.6)
DeSoto (300.9)
Duncanville (331.4)
Lancaster (381.4)
I'm in no way saying that Jonesboro, Lithonia, Stone Mountain, or Riverdale are "bad," "unsafe," or "undesirable." I don't know enough about them to make that judgment. I'm just mentioning some of the differences between them and the Best Southwest region of Dallas County.
I don't know, but the Best Southwest is a mix of good and bad. I'd assume the southern suburbs of Atlanta are as well.
I've lived in the Best Southwest area for over twenty years. Its definitely more good than bad. Even with some of the recent demographic changes, the area is still mostly middle-class. They are all pretty safe (a number of DFW area cities have higher crime rates than any BSW suburb) and have a lot of nice neighborhoods.
I think Plano/Allen and Alpharetta/Roswell would be a more accurate comparison.
Marietta would be part Mesquite with a bit of Garland thrown in and a taste of Sunnyvale.
I could see the Newnan/Waxahachie comparison.
Carrollton/Lewisville/Coppell could be Smyrna/Kennesaw/Acworth
I guess Cedar Hill/DeSoto is Dallas' Lithonia/Stone Mountain?
Still trying to figure out what Atlanta's Arlington/Grand Prairie or Irving would be. I'm leaning towards the Doraville/Chamblee/Brookhaven area of DeKalb being the equivalent to Irving/Valley Ranch. I guess Perimeter Center is our Las Colinas? I'm still also trying to figure out Richardson, because it could just as easily be Brookhaven/Dunwoody/Doraville/Chamblee
There's not really a Ft Worth parallel in Atlanta. DFW is a multipolar region with two dominant cities. Metro Atlanta has one dominant city.
I realized a long time ago that's it's very hard to compare Georgia towns to other states. The state has very few large towns for a state it's size and Population.
Two reasons for this mostly. Towns in Georgia are slow to be formed and incorporated. Georgia doesn't have many towns at all for a state it's size but has millions of people living in unincorporated areas either urban or rural. Also towns that are formed tend to not cover much area and don't annex much land to grow.
So basically as an example an urban area in say Texas with a 100,000 people is way more likely to form into a town with that population. While in Georgia that same area may have three small towns with only 15,000 16,000 people and the rest of the people live in unicorporated pockets of land in between these towns.
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