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Originally Posted by Yuri
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absolutely - many of the suburbs within the sprawl of atlanta are historic small towns with their own downtowns - marietta, roswell, decatur, (which is older than atlanta) alpharetta, stone mountain, among many others. some of the nodes around boston are more substantial, like worcester but it's also an hour out. gainesville and athens are much bigger small cities both located in atl's CSA and not that much further out than worcester is from boston. would be interested to see the total number of ppl living in the denser census tracts around these old towns vs the total living in typical atl-type subdivisions. there doesn't seem to be much in-between.