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Originally Posted by Andrea
Sorry, I missed your point. I would have considered this a crackpot idea a couple of years ago, but who knows? Maybe there are enough fed up people to give it legs now.
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I have to admit I do not know the details, but common sense tells me that with less than 500,000 people spread out in an area of 132 square miles (by comparison New York city is 8 million people over 305 square miles, you can do the math), and most of these people poor and as you mentioned before many corporations outside of the city limits, there is bound not to be enough tax base to maintain properly the huge infrastructure of Atlanta.
Recently things have been done: streets repaved, sidewalks added, not to mention the huge undertaking of fixing the sewers. I think the city is doing a pretty good job considering all of the above. Certainly not the time for Buckhead to leave Atlanta. By the way I live in Buckhead and I appreciate the sidewalks that have been added on Lindbergh that allow me to walk to Marta to go to work.
And why are people in Buckhead complaining? the tax has been increased for everybody and if somebody can afford it it's certainly the rich people in Buckhead...
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