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Old 06-20-2017, 10:38 PM
 
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One of only two cities in Georgia to make the top 25 Forbes list.. the other was Athens.
25 Best Places To Retire In 2017 | Forbes
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Old 06-21-2017, 12:21 AM
 
Location: Savannah GA
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One of only two cities in Georgia to make the top 25 Forbes list.. the other was Athens.
25 Best Places To Retire In 2017 | Forbes
ROFL ... 30 miles inland from the Atlantic? Try 15 miles! And median home price $118,000?! WTF! Good luck finding a decent house in a *safe* neighborhood anywhere in Chatham County for under $200,000!

Where the hell did Forbes get this info?!
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Old 06-21-2017, 04:59 AM
 
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Where the hell did Forbes get this info?!

From a freelancer that was willing to write click and bait pages for $10/page?
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Old 06-21-2017, 11:24 AM
 
Location: Savannah GA
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From a freelancer that was willing to write click and bait pages for $10/page?
Two Google searches. Ten seconds each.

Q. Median home price savannah ga
A. The median price of homes currently listed in Savannah is $199,500

Q. Savannah distance from ocean
A. Tybee Island also known as Savannah Beach, is an easily accessible barrier island located just 18 miles away from the Hostess City of the South, historic Savannah, Georgia.

It doesn't even take brains or skill to get basic facts right.
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Old 06-21-2017, 11:44 AM
 
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Agree -- but these "Best Cities to Retire (or: party, find attractive women, etc.)" are often fantasy click bait, and typically written by third-stringer boneheads. The items are also frequently off the mark -- like the recent truly outrageous "50 Worst U.S. Cities to Live In" thread from the 24/7 Wall Street site. Three Georgia cities make the dubious cut: Columbus, Albany, and Atlanta (but not Macon or Savannah or Augusta). Atlanta is No. 37 "Worst U.S. City to Live In." I've never cared much for ATL myself -- I've always thought it was overrated -- but 37th Worst City based on income inequality, poverty rate, total crimes, housing costs? That actually describes every larger city in the United States.

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Old 06-21-2017, 12:33 PM
 
Location: Savannah GA
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Agree -- but these "Best Cities to Retire (or: party, find attractive women, etc.)" are often fantasy click bait, and typically written by third-stringer boneheads. The items are also frequently off the mark -- like the recent truly outrageous "50 Worst U.S. Cities to Live In" thread from the 24/7 Wall Street site. Three Georgia cities make the dubious cut: Columbus, Albany, and Atlanta (but not Macon or Savannah or Augusta). Atlanta is No. 37 "Worst U.S. City to Live In." I've never cared much for ATL myself -- I've always thought it was overrated -- but 37th Worst City based on income inequality, poverty rate, total crimes, housing costs? That actually describes every larger city in the United States.
There are tons of truly awful "click bait" sites out there, but the one that currently wins the prize for me is something called "Only In Your State" which is making a killing via Facebook. It's a daily list of "great things" about each state compiled by the biggest bunch of idots that ever met a keyboard. The girl who produces the Georgia content has clearly never been to the state of Georgia, yet people share and re-share links to this crap over and over on social media. This site is so notoriously bad that OTHER click-bait sites (and a few legitimate news organizations) have written about them.

As a longtime print journalist who now must earn part of my income doing freelance writing and editing for the web, it angers me that so much of this garbage passes for "real" news these days ... especially when it comes from so-called reliable sources like Forbes.

And I agree: Calling Atlanta one of the "worst cities" in America is utter nonsense, unless of course you're Donald Trump.
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Old 06-21-2017, 01:27 PM
 
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Agree -- but these "Best Cities to Retire (or: party, find attractive women, etc.)" are often fantasy click bait, and typically written by third-stringer boneheads. The items are also frequently off the mark -- like the recent truly outrageous "50 Worst U.S. Cities to Live In" thread from the 24/7 Wall Street site. Three Georgia cities make the dubious cut: Columbus, Albany, and Atlanta (but not Macon or Savannah or Augusta). Atlanta is No. 37 "Worst U.S. City to Live In." I've never cared much for ATL myself -- I've always thought it was overrated -- but 37th Worst City based on income inequality, poverty rate, total crimes, housing costs? That actually describes every larger city in the United States.
Hard to believe Atlanta would make this list and not macon and Augusta... that does seem to be effed up.
That being said I do not disagree with Savannah and Athens being on the best places to retire list.
I think if you had to pick two cities in Georgia those two would be tops for retirees.
Savanah realestate may be more pricey by Southern standards but is still a bargain for many people from more expensive states up north and out west. Also Georgia overall has a more favorable tax climate for retirees.
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Old 06-21-2017, 05:08 PM
 
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Hard to believe Atlanta would make this list and not macon and Augusta... that does seem to be effed up.
That being said I do not disagree with Savannah and Athens being on the best places to retire list.
Atlanta's not my thing, never was, but lots of folks I meet in and around NYC know people who have retired there, or they have kids who moved there. They're always positive: "She loves Atlanta and won't ever leave," etc. This "50 Worst" list is bogus. All of GA's second-tier cities have problems with every one of the criteria cited: economic inequality, segregation, worse-than-national-average crime stats, real estate, and poverty. Savannah and even Athens do. But putting Atlanta among the 30 worst cities in the country? That's just disinformation, pure and simple.

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"great things" about each state compiled by the biggest bunch of idots that ever met a keyboard. .
Yes, it's junk journalism, like the recent "Best Small Town in Each State" I read. For Georgia, they chose Senoia, because that's where parts of "Walking Dead" are filmed. That really took some brilliant research and repeated visits, didn't it? A more original choice than Helen, but that's about it.
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