Columbus or Savannah, GA? (Atlanta, Macon: find a job, university, restaurants)

[gaflsc]

Originally Posted by Inquisitivelycharming

Overall Columbus offers more variety.....

lolwut?

[skelo31]

Columbus does offer more variety. Nice town.

[Southern Soul Bro]

Trying to compare Savannah's amenities Vs. Columbus' amenities, is pretty laughable.

[skelo31]

nice evidence King_X. im laughing so hard btw (means "by the way") haha.

[gaflsc]

Originally Posted by King_X

Trying to compare Savannah's amenities Vs. Columbus' amenities, is pretty laughable.

It pretty much is.

[Southern Soul Bro]

skelo31, I have visited SAV many times and lived in Columbus awhile for school. It doesn't take one but a simple drive through the cities to see that Savannah is more vibrant than Columbus. Columbus is DEAD for city of its listed population. Show me most of the other cities in America with 180,000-190,000 people and I will find busy interstates, 2 or 3 malls, and an "urban" skyline. Coumbus doesnt even have any of that.

IF someone goes to Columbus, GA expecting the same amenities they can find in other cities of similar population size, then they will be disappointed

[Southern Soul Bro]

You cant deny it

[Columbus1984]

Originally Posted by King_X

You cant deny it

You must have not gone out much.. I am 25 and find plenty of things do to. Columbus is vibrant. Plenty of concerts, bars, clubs, restaurants, outdoor activities, etc. Skylines don't make cities. For that fact, Columbus has taller buildings than any other city in GA except metro Atlanta, they just aren't clumped together downtown.

[Columbusattorney]

Originally Posted by Columbus1984

You must have not gone out much.. I am 25 and find plenty of things do to. Columbus is vibrant. Plenty of concerts, bars, clubs, restaurants, outdoor activities, etc. Skylines don't make cities. For that fact, Columbus has taller buildings than any other city in GA except metro Atlanta, they just aren't clumped together downtown.

Kings X,
This poster has been going around and around about Columbus being some kind of oasis in west georgia with the same tired descriptions.
A vibrant town that only grows by 700 people a year?(and that is counting the entire valley area incl Ft Benning)

He still has not responded to following after several attempts........Case Closed Chris..

The household income in Columbus GA has declined from the inflation-adjusted 2000 income levels. The income level has decreased to $33,453, which amounts to a 17.2 percent decline. The Columbus, GA-AL MSA, when comparing total percent of decline, ranks 4 of 6 metro area in percent of decline for median household income in the State of Georgia. Columbus ranks 15 of 233 metro area when comparing the decline in median income level for the United States.

When compared to other Metro Areas throughout the United States, the Columbus metro area had a relatively low median household income of $40,379 (2005 Dollars). The income level is 23 percent lower than the median in State of Georgia of $49,647 and the median is 21.7 percent lower than the median household income level in the US of $49,133.

As the median income level saw a decline from 2000 to 2005 in the Columbus, GA-AL metro area, the Race/Ethnicity category that saw the sharpest decline in median household income was the Hispanic category. This group felt a decline of 43.3 percent from 2000 to 2005. The American Indian and Alaska Native Race/Ethnicity category has been least effected by the income level decline in Columbus, undergoing a 2 percent increase in household income, since the reported levels in 2000.

Evaluated with other MSAs across the nation, the Columbus metro area can be considered to have a relatively high rate of poverty among its population, accounting a rate of 15.6 percent with a family income under the 1999 poverty level. The Black or African American race/ethnicity population category, holds the highest rate of poverty with 24.6 percent of the people in 2000 living in poverty. The population that is aged Under 5 years have the most percent of people living in poverty in Columbus, having 24 percent of the population in this age category living in poverty.

The poverty rate in the Columbus, GA-AL Metro has increased by 3.8 percent since the amount published in 2000, moving from 15.6 percent to 19.4 percent.

Datasource: U.S. Bureau of the Census.

[Southern Soul Bro]

Columbus1984, I'm younger than you, but read what I typed very carefully. I said Columbus has NO WHERE near the amenities you would expect FOR A CITY WITH ITS POPULATION

Let me give you an example, we have a nice shopping center called Eisenhower Crossing. It's nice, but in Macon it's just referred to as...you know..just another nice shopping area.

When I got to Columbus, all I heard was "THE STRIP MALL" this...."THE STRIP MALL" that.....
I finally got a chance to check it out...and basically it was another "Eisenhower Crossing"

The simple display of how people in Columbus were so excited and went on and on about what was referred to as a "STRIP MALL" there...that was basically the same thing as "Eisenhower Crossing" (which Macon people do not even really mention much)....just goes to show me personally how little there is there.

Not to mention when there was this Big concert there where an R&B singer refused to perform in Columbus and called the place "too small for her ".....(which was wrong of her) people in Columbus were saying how wrong it was because Columbus hadnt had a concert of that magnitude there before and blah blah.....

I was puzzled because the size of that particular show that went on in Columbus that night, goes on in Macon all the time.

We actually have a "celebrity tuesdays" at a place in Macon....does Columbus have something like that?

I mean it does have some things but definetly not the type of things you expect from a city of its populaton

Come on man go to somewhere like Dayton, Toledo, Huntsville (Bama), Chattanooga,
they have way more things than Columbus dude!!!