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Originally Posted by atlantaguy
Your rep is well deserved, Bna. You have been working at it quite hard for a couple of years now.
I would like to know who these outragious boosters are that are doing all of this population bragging? Who? Where are they? Because one kid starts a thread about it, a lot of you guys just love to paint all of us with this broad brush. It sucks, it's tired, and a lot of us are so fed up with being "preached to" by supposedly superior Northeasterners and Midwesterners that you can and should expect to be challenged every time you go there.
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Let's try to work this out here, and mods no need to worry, this
should be peaceful.
You see, from my perspective it is
you who has been working at this quite hard for a couple of years now. I don't know why, and since you haven't given me a reason the only thing I have been able to conclude is that you don't like it when someone questions the direction Atlanta is going in, so you tell yourselves that i'm just "jealous" or that I "hate" it, so you won't have to actually address the argument itself (and you never do).
I very well may be wrong about that assumption, but it's the only conclusion that made sense to me, unless it is just all a big misunderstanding.
You say I should expect to be "challenged". You don't understand. I WANT my arguments in the Atlanta threads I participate in to be challenged! Sometimes I practically beg for them to be refuted and debated! Perhaps my approach is off sometimes, but I don't participate in them to "preach", I participate in them to play the devil's advocate and get some discussion going. So you see, I want to be challenged, but instead all I usually get are the typical bunch marching in to debate my supposed 'motives' and not my argument itself.
I cannot even count the seemingly limitless occasions on threads where I have sang the praises of the fabulous, glittering nighttime Atlanta skyline, or gave lengthy explanations as to why I loved MARTA, or the weather, or Piedmont Park, or the great tree cover, or the great inner-city Atlanta neighborhoods, or the great memories I have of Atlanta from my extensive time there during my childhood. Somehow though that all seems to get ignored.
I'm not a "superior northeasterner" either (although I don't really know why one's location matters). I'm a southerner from a city, Nashville, that if anything looks up to Atlanta. I'm someone who, although Atlanta is not completely my cup of tea now, has nothing but fond memories of it. But even with all that said, regardless of who's fault it is, somehow i've developed the reputation that I "hate" Atlanta, just because I suggest that uber growth isn't a good thing or what have you. So with that said i'm here to tell you, hopefully for the last time, that you can rest easy because I do not hate Atlanta at all.