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Originally Posted by Uptowngirl
I go downtown often...I have close friends who work at Georgia State. And iMHO downtown, at least in the Five Points area is dangerous and dumpy. I hear about GSU reinvesting in the area but there are too many sketchy characters just hanging out in 5 Points.
Plus I went to UA back in the 80s...it sucked. It was a mall, a terrible 80s mall. Those who did go to the UA in the 70s say they killed all the character at UA.
And finally I don't know why I'm not qualified to offer an opinion. I'm a native Atlantan...I grew up in Atlanta.
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Downtown is dumpy around certain sides of Underground, and south of there. Five Points itself is by no means dangerous! That is simply not true, at all. These claims sound like word of mouth from skittish second-hand stories, and have no ring of truth to them. I don't doubt that you have friends at GSU, but these sound like stories from a very small sampling of paranoid people there - certainly not recent observations from recent personal visits. Based on your past posts regarding Peachtree Center, I simply don't believe you - sorry.
Underground in the late 80's after the Rouse redevelopment was incredibly busy, and very popular. It was most certainly not a terrible 80's mall, by any stretch of the imagination. Those that saw and experienced Underground in the 70's have a faded and romanticized memory of an area that had fabulous character and was an extremely popular destination, but is was sketchy as hell on the fringes and not safe until you were actually
inside its confines. It was Atlanta's de facto French Quarter back then.
Due to surrounding crime, it rapidly declined and mostly sat empty for years rotting away, and was even further damaged by MARTA construction. The City and Rouse changed that in a big way in the late 80's.
I don't doubt that you are a native of the
area, but living and growing up in Cherokee County almost 40 miles + from the actual City is hardly the same as being from 'Atlanta.' You have never really posted much of anything even remotely accurate about Downtown, and your posting history confirms it.
I apologize for coming across harshly. However, the last thing we need is people no longer from here that claim to be current on the situation Downtown, while spouting off second-hand stories and personal opinion as fact. I'm not buying any of it.
Going by your statements, I can't even imagine you living in NOLA if you consider Five Points dangerous.