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Old 02-09-2014, 09:55 PM
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Originally Posted by masonbauknight View Post
The towns listed by the OP, plus BWK and HVL.

To those 4th-tier country towns (just joshing, Decatur) we must certainly add one more: ROM.

Thanks for the private reminder about Rome, Newsboy. I was asleep at the wheel but you weren't.
Rome is 3rd tier.
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Old 02-10-2014, 06:37 AM
 
Location: Duluth, GA
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I would definitely add Toccoa to the 4th tier list.
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Old 02-10-2014, 09:45 AM
 
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Rome is 3rd tier.

Nope, Rome is definitely 4th -- metro population below 100,000 people (2012 estimates), just like Hinesville. True, Brunswick is slightly above 100,000, but none of these 3 are anywhere close in metro population to Albany and Warner Robins, both 3rd tier and a different league.
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Old 02-10-2014, 12:03 PM
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Nope, Rome is definitely 4th -- metro population below 100,000 people (2012 estimates), just like Hinesville. True, Brunswick is slightly above 100,000, but none of these 3 are anywhere close in metro population to Albany and Warner Robins, both 3rd tier and a different league.


Just because the population of Rome's MSA is less than 100,000 doesn't mean it's 4th tier. If you put Dalton 3rd tier, Rome certainly fits that being a larger city with better amenities for starters. Rome's MSA is at 97,000 and anyone knows NW Georgia clearly understand this. Counties that should be part of the Rome MSA like Polk county for example isn't but don't be surprised in the upcoming years if you don't see Polk and Chatooga counties added to Rome's MSA.
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Old 02-10-2014, 12:07 PM
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Brunswick's MSA has a population of over 100,000. It's hardly a country town.
Calhoun and Cartersville have more people than Brunswick. Brunswick's MSA has 100,000 but the town feels like a town of 15,000 people or similar to Calhoun.
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Old 02-10-2014, 12:42 PM
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Location: St Simons Island, GA
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Calhoun and Cartersville have more people than Brunswick. Brunswick's MSA has 100,000 but the town feels like a town of 15,000 people or similar to Calhoun.
So your point is that it is indeed a 'country town'. Whatever.
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Old 02-10-2014, 12:57 PM
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So your point is that it is indeed a 'country town'. Whatever.
There's not a need to get upset but Brunswick is country and that's not a bad thing.

It's reality.
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Old 02-10-2014, 02:16 PM
 
Location: Columbus,Georgia
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Ahh....it's okay. Columbus is surrounded by the country.
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Old 02-10-2014, 02:28 PM
 
Location: Augusta, GA ''The fastest rising city in the southeast''
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I think Brunswick deserves to be listed among the 3rd tier and not with grouped with Milledgeville...

Why is Warner Robins being mentioned?(it's a suburb of Macon)



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Tier 3:

Warner Robins, Valdosta, Rome and Dalton. Athens is borderline tier 2.
Not even close.. The main county of Savannah, Augusta, and Columbus is larger than metro Athens..
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Old 02-10-2014, 02:31 PM
 
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@cdw. But future growth and a future definition of a town's metro/micropolitan area do not a 3rd-tier city make. Rome belongs in 4th tier for now.

@Norton, I see your point. Athens, metro pop. 196,000, is only ever considered 2nd tier (and not by all demographers and urban economists) because it is a large consolidated city, hosts a big university, and enjoys some of the prestige and amenities of the other 2nd-tier cities in Georgia. I'm of two minds about Athens: 2nd or 3rd tier.
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