{"id":16419,"date":"2021-10-29T15:09:13","date_gmt":"2021-10-29T19:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=16419"},"modified":"2021-10-29T15:09:13","modified_gmt":"2021-10-29T19:09:13","slug":"guest-contributor-tomd-insights-into-atlanta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/29\/guest-contributor-tomd-insights-into-atlanta\/","title":{"rendered":"Guest Contributor – TomD – Insights Into Atlanta"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tom | Flickr<\/a><\/p>\n

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Above, going through Buckhead on Ga 400 a couple of weeks ago.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I grew up in metro Atlanta and spent most of my life there up until a few years ago, but never within the City limits.<\/p>\n

The big deal there now is that the richest subdivision of the city, Buckhead, is trying hard to secede from Atlanta in order to form it\u2019s own police force and may well succeed. (I think I\u2019ve never previously managed to get both secede and succeed in the same sentence.) The chaos, murder, car jackings, rampant shopliftings and police stand downs really didn\u2019t play well with the folks over on Blackland Rd near the Governors Mansion along with their $50k-$100K per year property tax bills for their \u201chouses\u201d.<\/p>\n

If Buckhead pulls it off, it will play the devil with Atlanta\u2019s tax base. It would take away around 15% of the population of Atlanta City but maybe up to 60%+ of the property value. That\u2019ll teach them to screw with the goose that laid the golden egg! Just try looting a few $billions in \u201ctax\u201d from the inner city neighborhoods. Fat chance of that.<\/p>\n

BTW: The City of Atlanta is just a niche in Greater Atlanta, with a population of around a half million in the 7 million person by 10,000 square mile metro area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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