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Old 12-22-2017, 09:38 PM
 
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Here it is, the truth plain and simple. I wish somebody had run this by me before I moved to the place eight years ago. Columbia County, where I lived while I was there, is not as bad as Augusta proper, but not entirely immune to it's growth-stultifying influence. There is a reason real estate is so relatively inexpensive there, there is a price to pay for the it's-not-what-you-know-it's-who-you-know, good-ole'-boy network life philosophy that still reigns there and in many likewise parts of the south, and you have to have been an overeager newcomer or a young local leaving town to make his/her bones elsewhere in order to understand.
Georgia jobs: Augusta among worst US cities to start career
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Old 09-25-2019, 06:00 AM
 
Location: Albany Ga
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What about Albany GA?
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Old 09-25-2019, 10:22 AM
 
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What about Albany GA?
What about it?
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Old 09-25-2019, 10:50 AM
 
Location: Columbus, GA
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What about it?
Albany is everyone's favorite city in the state to **** on. While it is no doubt saddled with more issues than most, they are the same type of issues which most smaller isolated cities in the country currently have, in addition to the particularly excessive rate of white flight abandonment the city underwent in the latter half of the 20th century and all of the social and economic issues systematic to that phenomenon.

Slowly but surely investment and development has returned to Downtown Albany and there are more than a few things today to be proud of for residents.

The south side neighborhoods will continue to have high rates of poverty and crime, but there's not a non-suburban city in the south which doesn't have those exact same kinds of neighborhoods. So that problem exists in Albany, but it isn't Albany's problem - it's bigger than that.
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Old 09-28-2019, 02:28 AM
 
Location: “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who
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Griffin.
Close enough but not too close.
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Old 09-29-2019, 07:46 PM
 
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Only one city in the state is known all over as Disgusta
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Old 10-02-2019, 01:32 PM
 
Location: Free State of Florida
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Best
Western Suwanee & Southeastern Forsyth County (both banks along the Chattahoochie River) to raise a family
Athens- appeals to all kinds
Big Canoe - for the 50+'ers who like a master planned community in a natural environment
Dahlonega if you like to avoid crowds and enjoy rural living and quiant town squares
Decatur if you like the intown vibe, and the tolerent set
Savannah - for history & arts buffs and those who love old historic homes & architecture, and good food

Worst
Statesboro...unless you are attending college there
Winder
Monroe
Atlanta (most of it anyways)
St. Mary's just North of Jacksonvile near the state line
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Old 10-04-2019, 12:35 PM
 
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Western Suwanee & Southeastern Forsyth County (both banks along the Chattahoochie River) to raise a family
Athens- appeals to all kinds
Big Canoe - for the 50+'ers who like a master planned community in a natural environment
Dahlonega if you like to avoid crowds and enjoy rural living and quiant town squares
Decatur if you like the intown vibe, and the tolerent set
Savannah - for history & arts buffs and those who love old historic homes & architecture, and good food

Worst
Statesboro...unless you are attending college there
Winder
Monroe
Atlanta (most of it anyways)
St. Mary's just North of Jacksonvile near the state line
Add Disgusta here
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