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Old 04-06-2009, 09:17 AM
 
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Probably the top 3 would be Savannah, Athens,and the Georgia suburbs of Chattanooga

How can suburbs count as second tier cities, especially suburbs connected to an out of state city??

 
Old 04-06-2009, 11:43 AM
 
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How can suburbs count as second tier cities, especially suburbs connected to an out of state city??

Athens is not second Tier city, Don't understand why people are trying to consider it one; But the funny thing is they connect GA cities to out of state cities......But Separate Macon and Warner Robins and they are in the same state and only 15mins apart........
 
Old 04-06-2009, 12:28 PM
 
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Athens is not second Tier city, Don't understand why people are trying to consider it one; But the funny thing is they connect GA cities to out of state cities......But Separate Macon and Warner Robins and they are in the same state and only 15mins apart........
1st Tier City: Atlanta

2nd Tier Cities: Augusta, Columbus, Macon, Savannah

3rd Tier Cities: Albany, Athens, Brunswick, Rome, Valdosta, Warner Robins

4th Tier: Dalton, Gainesville, La Grange, Statesboro
 
Old 04-06-2009, 12:33 PM
 
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Athens is not second Tier city, Don't understand why people are trying to consider it one; But the funny thing is they connect GA cities to out of state cities......But Separate Macon and Warner Robins and they are in the same state and only 15mins apart........
I am not sure why Warner Robins and Macon are not considered one metro area.... that does indeed baffle me.. but then again the main thing for consideration of a metro area is commuting patterns and where ppl work. I think though that Macon and Warner Robins definately qualify as a Combined Statistical area.
Just to not about Athens.. it has a bigger city population than Macon or Albany, so why would it not be considered a 2nd tier city?
Btw.. the Georgia suburbs of Chattanooga have over 120,000 ppl...that;s bigger than Albany.
 
Old 04-06-2009, 05:51 PM
 
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Athens is not second Tier city
According to this definition, found in Business Facilities magazine,

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" … spatially distinct areas of economic activity where a specialized set of trade-oriented industries takes root and flourishes, establishing employment and population growth trajectories that are the envy of many other places."
Macon is not even a second tier city. I especially like this part "the envy of many other places".
Envy? Not hardly. Unless, of course, you are in the business of fencing stolen goods.......
 
Old 04-06-2009, 07:03 PM
 
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I am not sure why Warner Robins and Macon are not considered one metro area.... that does indeed baffle me.. but then again the main thing for consideration of a metro area is commuting patterns and where ppl work. I think though that Macon and Warner Robins definately qualify as a Combined Statistical area.
Just to not about Athens.. it has a bigger city population than Macon or Albany, so why would it not be considered a 2nd tier city?
Btw.. the Georgia suburbs of Chattanooga have over 120,000 ppl...that;s bigger than Albany.
First of all Athens City pop and size is way smaller than Macon or Albany, But the Consolidated pop is because it includes the entire County pop.....the proper city size is about 25 sq Miles and pop around 40,000........
 
Old 04-06-2009, 07:28 PM
 
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First of all Athens City pop and size is way smaller than Macon or Albany
And yet, people actually want to live in Athens. Statistics show that people are moving away from Macon and Albany. Go figure. Whats the chance you will ever be correct in your posts? Nil.
 
Old 04-07-2009, 06:23 AM
 
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And yet, people actually want to live in Athens. Statistics show that people are moving away from Macon and Albany. Go figure. Whats the chance you will ever be correct in your posts? Nil.
Macon IS larger than Athens. All one has to do is visit both cities to see that. NewtownMacon is correct, Athens is not as large as its city population lists, the result of a city-county consolidation, the same thing that Augusta has done. Macon is about double the size of Athens, and their actual city populations, as well as their metro populations, minus any city-county consolidation, bear this out.
 
Old 04-07-2009, 07:09 AM
 
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Bibb County shows about the same amount of growth as Muscogee, which isnt much but still a little, yet people are running away from Macon and fighting for reservations in Columbus? It just doesnt add up. Augusta and Macon have booming suburban counties such as Houston County for Macon and Columbia for Augusta. Does Savannah, Athens or Columbus even have suburban counties on the level of those? I doubt Columbus and Athens do, at the very least.
 
Old 04-07-2009, 10:10 AM
 
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Bibb County shows about the same amount of growth as Muscogee, which isnt much but still a little, yet people are running away from Macon and fighting for reservations in Columbus? It just doesnt add up. Augusta and Macon have booming suburban counties such as Houston County for Macon and Columbia for Augusta. Does Savannah, Athens or Columbus even have suburban counties on the level of those? I doubt Columbus and Athens do, at the very least.
I agree with you, Houston county is among the US and GA's fastest growing counties
Warner Robins metro area still among fastest growing - The Sun News - Macon (http://www.macon.com/197/story/664664.html - broken link)
Houston’s retail growth outlook appears strong - Business - Macon (http://www.macon.com/102/story/672275.html - broken link)
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