[JManc]

Atlanta is uniformly less dense compared to Boston and while both metros encompass a similar sized footprint, most of Boston is concentrated in smaller denser areas thus freeing up far more greenspace in the overall metro. It's hard to tell where Boston ends and Brookline, Watertown, Chelsea or Cambridge begin. Then it's green areas (with some low density development) until the next old dense town; Framingham, Natick, Lowell, etc. It's a total wicked pissah.