In Atlanta, it's interesting to me that folks who live out in the outer suburbs see the city as choked with traffic. It's really not. The burbs are, and the freeways in and out of the city certainly are, but inside the city, traffic's really bad at all.
I lived in Midtown Atlanta for several years and could get just about anywhere I needed to in 5-10 minutes. I've also lived in Lilburn, Stone Mountain, Peachtree City, and Norcross (all burbs of Atlanta), and can tell you each of those had TONS more traffic problems, both on the surface streets and on the freeways. And, as you mention, forget about ever trying to go into the city, it's hellish to get through the traffic during rush hour and sometimes during the middle of the day. Living in Midtown gave me access to tons more stuff to do, restaurants, bars, clubs, parks, music and sports venues. Much of it I could walk to, and the stuff I couldn't walk to was a $5 cab ride away. Most weekends I parked my car on Friday night and didn't drive it again till it was time for my 5 minute commute to work. I know that there's definitely a difference between OTP (outside the perimeter) and intown people in Atlanta. I'm always amazed however, at the misperceptions that people who live way out in the suburbs have of the city. There's so much sprawl in Atlanta, and living in the middle of the sprawl is what creates the problems that people tend to observe and attribute to "the city". The center of the city is really quite well developed and is densely populated enough that traffic isn't really a problem because you don't have to drive so far to get to anything, if at all. Living in the burbs means getting into a car to do ANYTHING. Going to the grocery store, a restaurant, your job, everything requires travel in a car. These are all things I could find within walking distance intown, and if I did have to get into a car, it was for a very short period of time. Anyways. I doubt I am going to shift anyone's viewpoints here, just thought I would go off on a rant about Atlanta for a minute. :) -Cameron On Sun, 9 Jan 2005 02:51:25 -0500, Erika L. Walker-Arnold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We try not to go into Atlanta unless absolutely necessary - and I gotta > say - it's one reason we haven't made any CFUG's. We just can't stand > the traffic. It's bad enough we go to the airport every few months or so > to pick up friends coming in. Several times we almost sent a car. The > only good time, where you have a 75% chance of coming in and getting out > unscathed is between 1 and 3 LOL. Twice now, we've had to sit in bumper > to bumper traffic up the 85 to the 400, and it really really sucks. > > Now, I'm thankful we have one traffic light between us and our favorite > park and boat ramps. :D > > You city folk can have your city! :D > > Cheers, > Erika ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket application http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=48 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:141834 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
