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re: Any Dawgs & Tide fans actually going to the SECCG in Atlanta?
Posted on 11/27/23 at 1:39 pm to AwgustaDawg
Posted on 11/27/23 at 1:39 pm to AwgustaDawg
I know and have known many single young professionals having the time of their life living in urban Atlanta. They love it.
But I have one question-
Every time one of them gets hitched with a baby on the way, they haul arse from Atlanta as fast as possible.
Are they afraid of their own shadows?
But I have one question-
Every time one of them gets hitched with a baby on the way, they haul arse from Atlanta as fast as possible.
Are they afraid of their own shadows?
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Posted on 11/27/23 at 1:40 pm to deeprig9
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I know and have known many single young professionals having the time of their life living in urban Atlanta. They love it.
But I have one question-
Every time one of them gets hitched with a baby on the way, they haul arse from Atlanta as fast as possible.
Are they afraid of their own shadows?
Have you ever heard of schools?
Posted on 11/27/23 at 1:40 pm to SummerOfGeorge
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Getting harassed to buy water at the corner of Peachtree/Lenox is truly one of best new city traditions.
Ohh god the humanity!!! Imagine the terror...it is one of the worst things to ever happen to a human being in the history of the species, being asked if you want to buy a bottle of water from a 10 year old child....so skeery. Imagine a grown arse adult being scared of that encounter....
Posted on 11/27/23 at 1:40 pm to AwgustaDawg
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Other than the convenience of being walking distance to the dome or Phillips or the WCC I would agree. The area around Mercedes and Phillips has PLENTY of bars and restaurants and many of them are VERY good, the problem is that anyone who is scared Buckhead is going to be fricking TERRIFIED in those places. They are perfectly safe and the neighborhood is also for the most part...but the are is a little less sanitized than most of Atlanta. You could eat at a different restaurant every night and it would take a couple of lifetimes to get to them all.
I'd rather stay 5 miles away in Buckhead than half a mile or a mile away in Downtown. Downtown Atlanta has become a rotting corpse that is essentially dead after business hours. If given the choice on where to stay for something like the SEC Championship game for a weekend this would be my order regardless of distance to Mercedes Benz Stadium:
#1. Eastside Beltline (Inman Park, Old Fourth Ward, Virginia Highland, Poncey Highland, Morningside)
#2. Midtown
#3. West Midtown
#4. Buckhead
#5. The Perimeter (Ashford Dunwoody)
#6. Downtown
All of those places have far more amenities, are safer and more things to see and do than Downtown Atlanta. I don't care how close Downtown is to the stadium it just sucks to be there and would rather be 2 to 5 miles more away (or even 10 if choosing Perimeter)
This post was edited on 11/27/23 at 1:42 pm
Posted on 11/27/23 at 1:41 pm to AwgustaDawg
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Ohh god the humanity!!! Imagine the terror...it is one of the worst things to ever happen to a human being in the history of the species, being asked if you want to buy a bottle of water from a 10 year old child....so skeery. Imagine a grown arse adult being scared of that encounter....
Who are you talking to? I literally live 3 miles from there and drive it everyday.
Posted on 11/27/23 at 1:42 pm to WG_Dawg
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Have you ever heard of schools?
DOn't do their homework for them. Let awgustadawg answer.
Posted on 11/27/23 at 1:42 pm to AwgustaDawg
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The Georgia Dome may have been the best football venue ever built.
This will be my first time ever visiting the Benz. I can't help but agree about the Dome though. That place was legendary and I'm still salty about it being demolished and I think that's one of the reasons I haven't been as eager to go to an SECCG since its opening as I have in the past.
This post was edited on 11/27/23 at 1:45 pm
Posted on 11/27/23 at 1:43 pm to BigBadBoodieDaddy
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I live in Peachtree City, bro and was born and raised in Georgia. Atlanta is a shithole and is extremely dangerous.
Data doesn't lie. Why are you so pressed about it? Even Atlantans will tell you it's bad. You can have state pride and still admit Atlanta is dangerous.
On average around 17 or 18 white people per year are murdered in Atlanta. Take away the dope deals gone wrong, and the number of white murder victims is probably in the single digits. The world out there is not nearly as scary as your online echo chamber.
This analysis is particularly important because of the large spike in violence that Atlanta and other cities have experienced amid the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2020, Atlanta tallied 157 homicides, with the City recording 158 homicides in 2021.
In Atlanta, victims and suspects of homicides were largely Black, male, and in the 18 to 34 age range. 84 percent of victims and 88 percent of suspects in homicides were male. Over 85 percent of known victims and suspects in homicides were Black, while Black citizens comprise 49.8 percent of the overall population in Atlanta.6 The average age for victims of a homicide was 31.9 years, while the average age of a suspect of a homicide was 27.1 years.
Posted on 11/27/23 at 1:43 pm to deeprig9
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I know and have known many single young professionals having the time of their life living in urban Atlanta. They love it.
But I have one question-
Every time one of them gets hitched with a baby on the way, they haul arse from Atlanta as fast as possible.
I have 3 smallish humans that I am legally obligated to take care of who were all born at Northside and we still live inside the perimeter.
So I don't know the answer to that question other than the fact that I did not haul arse and neither did the 100 other families that live in my neighborhood (and continue to haul arse into it, ironically).
This post was edited on 11/27/23 at 1:44 pm
Posted on 11/27/23 at 1:43 pm to AwgustaDawg
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Ohh god the humanity!!! Imagine the terror...it is one of the worst things to ever happen to a human being in the history of the species, being asked if you want to buy a bottle of water from a 10 year old child....so skeery. Imagine a grown arse adult being scared of that encounter....
1) He never said he was scared or that it was cause to move. He simply said that they harass you, which is fact. If you disagree you clearly don't know the situation
2) YOu can easily google dozens of articles about these same bottle kids that have literally shot people for refusing to buy water. No that is not hyperbole. Some of the less entrepreneurial among them have gotten into arguments when people refuse to buy the water and will escalate to actual violence
Posted on 11/27/23 at 1:43 pm to WG_Dawg
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And that's on the tame side! Right before we left Brookhaven my wife wanted to go to Lenox (solo) for something and I flat out refused. I think there were like 4 shootings within the prior 6 months.
It's a shame because that area used to be SO nice and now is just a total waste.
4 shootings in 6 months in area that sees what, a million people every 24 hours??? Damn, that is a LOT of shootings LOL....this is the irrational fear omnipresent in so many Americans they choose to miss out on things that they might otherwise enjoy but are too scared to let themselves...
Posted on 11/27/23 at 1:45 pm to ronricks
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#1. Eastside Beltline (Inman Park, Old Fourth Ward, Virginia Highland, Poncey Highland, Morningside)
#2. Midtown
#3. West Midtown
#4. Buckhead
#5. The Perimeter (Ashford Dunwoody)
#6. Downtown
All of those places have far more amenities, are safer and more things to see and do than Downtown Atlanta. I don't care how close Downtown is to the stadium it just sucks to be there and would rather be 2 to 5 miles more away (or even 10 if choosing Perimeter)
No disagreements on that.
Downtown just hasn't redeveloped the way they've tried to make it happen for 10 years. They've built neat new museums, added the dumb streetcar, re-done some old hotels, built some new hotels, expanded Georgia State, etc etc...........but nobody wants to actually live down there. And until they do, it's just not gonna be anything other than a 9-5 foot traffic zone.
Posted on 11/27/23 at 1:45 pm to BigBadBoodieDaddy
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I live in Peachtree City, bro and was born and raised in Georgia. Atlanta is a shithole and is extremely dangerous.
Data doesn't lie. Why are you so pressed about it? Even Atlantans will tell you it's bad. You can have state pride and still admit Atlanta is dangerous.
I served two tours in Afghanistan and would rather live there than ATL.
So Peachtree City is a shithole and dangerous? Peachtree City is SOLIDLY Metro Atlanta. SO what part of Atlanta are you scared of? There are areas where a sane person would be intimidated by....the area around Mercedes Benz aint one...
Posted on 11/27/23 at 1:48 pm to Jumpinjack
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Me three. New dome is meh. And the narrow exiting concourses is an inexcusable design flaw.
It is a fricking terrorist attack waiting to happen. It is INEXCUSABLE. In the current state of the world where people are nearly crippled with irrational fears the designers build a building meant to hold what, 75000 people at very regulated times and then made 4 entries and exits that EVERYBODY must traverse to get in and out??? Terrible bad design...
Posted on 11/27/23 at 1:48 pm to AwgustaDawg
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4 shootings in 6 months in area that sees what, a million people every 24 hours??? Damn, that is a LOT of shootings LOL....this is the irrational fear omnipresent in so many Americans they choose to miss out on things that they might otherwise enjoy but are too scared to let themselves...
Look, I'm as big an Atlanta defender as exists and choose to live a football field away from Buckhead between 2 MARTA stops.........and the area around Lenox/Phipps was a disaster for about 18 months right after COVID.
They've cleaned stuff up down there, but it took some time and some resources. There was a new shooting, stabbing, large scale fight at Lenox on the news almost weekly for a 5-6 month stretch during late 2020 and 2021, and that doesn't even touch on the hundreds of car break-ins that were occurring on a nightly basis. It was not good.
This post was edited on 11/27/23 at 1:49 pm
Posted on 11/27/23 at 1:48 pm to SummerOfGeorge
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So I don't know the answer to that question other than the fact that I did not haul arse and neither did the 100 other families that live in my neighborhood (and continue to haul arse into it, ironically).
Where ITP and which private school and how much does that cost for three kids?
Posted on 11/27/23 at 1:49 pm to deeprig9
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Where ITP
Brookhaven
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which private school
2 kids in DeKalb County Public Schools and a 3rd who will enter them in the next 18 months
Posted on 11/27/23 at 1:50 pm to deeprig9
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DOn't do their homework for them. Let awgustadawg answer.
Midtown Cluster (Used to be called Grady Cluster) is just fine.
Posted on 11/27/23 at 1:50 pm to AwgustaDawg
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4 shootings in 6 months in area that sees what, a million people every 24 hours??? Damn, that is a LOT of shootings LO
look at this idiot trying to downplay 4 killings at A MALL in 6 months based on a percentage of overall shoppers metric lol
Posted on 11/27/23 at 1:52 pm to deeprig9
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I know and have known many single young professionals having the time of their life living in urban Atlanta. They love it.
But I have one question-
Every time one of them gets hitched with a baby on the way, they haul arse from Atlanta as fast as possible.
Are they afraid of their own shadows?
They don't anymore...Atlanta is BOOMING with young families. I know it was exactly as you described in the 1970s and 1980s but it has changed a LOT in the last 20 or so years. Atlanta public schools are also among the best in the state and the state is about middle of the pack in the US.
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