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Lady Galadriel <elflady@angband.org> wrote:
> Just 'cause someone lives outside the city limits (and btw, Alpharetta is
> north Fulton) doesn't mean that they've not experienced the true pleasures
> and pitfalls of the city itself.

Oh, I have no idea where the fellow has lived before--could be the moon,
for all I know. I was just making the point (a bit forcefully, true) that
his statement was pretty ridiculous.

I do believe, though, that if you live in Alpharetta (or any suburb) you
might get a taste of Atlanta and what living in Atlanta is like, but it
would be far removed from what it would be like to actually live in the
city.  Most people who live out in suburbs rarely venture into the city.

Example:  I just moved to Dallas, and when I was trying to find a place to
live here I told the relocation people that I wanted to live intown.  What
I ended up with was an apartment in an area that's basically the midtown
of Dallas (about a mile north of downtown).  I can WALK to the grocery
store, the pharmacy, blockbuster, Tower Records, Target, Office Depot, the
Dallas Museum of Art, Symphony Hall, about 15 different restrauants
(conservative estimate), and more bars than I'd care to think about
(though there are only a handfuly I'd ever frequent, the area is kinda
yuppie :) ).  And there's a ton more interesting and different things w/i
a 5-10 minute drive.

Now, keep in mind that Dallas is NOT a pedestrian- or mass-transit-
friendly place--it's even more spread out than Atlanta. 

All the people my age that I work with live out in the burbs where we
work--it's like a 5-10 minute commute for them, and about 30-35 minutes
for me.  But there they can't really walk across the street, much less to
anywhere near the wide variety of places that I can.  And those 'burbs
look basically like all the other suburbs I've ever seen in my life.

Sure, when it's time to get married and settle down and have kids or you
want some quiet or whatever, then you start to have a certain set of needs
that suburban living fits quite nicely.  But, to get back to the original
point, what I got out of the post was "I live in Alpharetta and Atlanta's
boring and there's nothing to do."  Well, I'm sure Alpharetta is, but that
doesn't mean the ATL is too.

Should I elaborate further?  :)

Ramsey