Atlanta = Food & Bars

KillerGroove said:
Wait, didn't you state in another post that you live in Buckhead?
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Ok idiot. I was obviously referring to Buckhead as in the strip of bars that people go out to (particularly the ones that got torn down), not the residential neighborhood I currently live in. As in, it was fun to go to the Buckhead bars when I was younger, but now that I'm older the problems they bring (or, more accurately, brought) are more real.
 
Legal Jacket said:
Ok idiot. I was obviously referring to Buckhead as in the strip of bars that people go out to (particularly the ones that got torn down), not the residential neighborhood I currently live in. As in, it was fun to go to the Buckhead bars when I was younger, but now that I'm older the problems they bring (or, more accurately, brought) are more real.
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You really are a condescending little prick aren't you? I live in south Buckhead too, son.

Anyhow, it's just my opinion. Take the average football fan who comes into town for a game and I think most would agree that Athens is a better drinking town. I acknowledge that there are some cools spots over in Atlanta but taking cabs all over town is lame as hell.

Atlanta's nightlife was orders of magnitude better 10+ years ago. Incidentally, VaHi is ööööing boring as hell, I still don't understand why people bring that place up.

Legal Jacket said:
This is about the dumbest thing I've read in a long time. One, you are missing the big picture. This isn't a debate about how big Atlanta is. It's a discussion about Atlanta's bar and restaurant scene. Being contrarian and quibbling about how big Atlanta is misses the point and doesn't advance that discussion at all. It's just you being an idiot.

Two, the point was that Atlanta has a helluva lot more people than Athens, and so comparing the two doesn't make sense. Even under your idiotic assessment, Atlanta proper has well over 400k people. That's more than Miami, which I'm sure you would agree with me is a city, not a town. That's also more than Cleveland, Minneapolis, New Orleans, Tampa, Oakland, St. Louis, and Pittsburgh. Again, all cities, not towns. Yet somehow, in your fantasy world, Atlanta (and its 400k+ people) are comparable to Athens. In fact, if you took every ass backward person in Clarke county and counted them, you wouldn't get much over 1/4 of that number and that's including the whole öööö county, not just "Athens proper." Tying it into the discussion, that Atlanta has so many people and is so much larger than Athens makes it significantly more difficult (especially in light of how Atlanta developed) to have one centralized set of bars and restaurants. There are not many places bigger than Atlanta that have "one" spot like what people are saying. Maybe San Antonio, but I haven't been there. Other than that, if you are just talking about the population of city proper, it's Memphis or Las Vegas, and maybe Nashville.

The second problem with your logic is that, according to you, the millions of people that live in surrounding areas - like Sandy Springs, Marietta, Dunwoody, Decatur, etc. - simple don't count. They don't come to Atlanta ever under your analysis. You could be like my mom, who lives a mile inside the perimeter in Sandy Springs, and yet not count when assessing the size of the city. That makes no sense in this context.

If anything, it supports what I've been saying the whole time that, because Atlanta is so big, you are going to find a lot of good eating and drinking options but they just aren't centralized. Because the actual "city" isn't as populated as the immediate surrounding areas, it makes sense that there are good options going from Midtown and sprawling to the North and the East. If you had thought more about what you were saying in the context of this discussion, rather than trying to quibble for the sake of being cute, you might have realized that.

EDIT: And you may as well be asking a visitor what is the better college town - Athens or Atlanta. If your question is, what is the best place to drink really cheap beer and oogle sorority girls, it's clearly athens. If your question is which place has better food and drinking options, its clearly Atlanta (unless, again, you are mostly interested in lower priced options). I'm not saying Athens doesn't have good upper scale options, but that's not the focus of the Athens market and the number of places and selection isn't near what you would find in Atlanta, which makes sense for most people.
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Legal Jacket said:
Ok idiot. I was obviously referring to Buckhead as in the strip of bars that people go out to (particularly the ones that got torn down), not the residential neighborhood I currently live in. As in, it was fun to go to the Buckhead bars when I was younger, but now that I'm older the problems they bring (or, more accurately, brought) are more real.
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Counselor, you can ööööing blow me. I can see the alcoholism sort of wears at your patience.
 
ITT two condescending pricks call each other condescending pricks.
 
KillerGroove said:
You really are a condescending little prick aren't you? I live in south Buckhead too, son.

Anyhow, it's just my opinion. Take the average football fan who comes into town for a game and I think most would agree that Athens is a better drinking town. I acknowledge that there are some cools spots over in Atlanta but taking cabs all over town is lame as hell.

Atlanta's nightlife was orders of magnitude better 10+ years ago. Incidentally, VaHi is ööööing boring as hell, I still don't understand why people bring that place up.
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Yes I am. I won't argue with your opinion about whether you like Atlanta's bars or not. I will point out that you spent 3-4 posts trying to bicker with me about how big Atl is.
 
I feel like I am reading Peter Griffin and the Angry Chicken talking to each other
 
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Move the Ivy and Johnny's next door to the Irby/Roswell Rd. Buckhead Bars and ATL bar problem solved.
 
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