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Originally Posted by scania
I don’t follow your “Blanche”...maybe it’s best that I don’t. But I understand your excitement for Atlanta. I will guess that the more pedestrian activity you see or not see, your opinion will stay the same. My thoughts were specifically about nightlife, be it clubs, lounges, restaurants, etc. The entire vibe and energy. Years ago on this forum, a popular statement people said all the time was that tall buildings aren’t city make...though this was a reference for BUCKHEAD, because at that time, Buckhead was getting a lot of the tall buildings. IMO, this is now happening with Midtown. So yes I love the development going on in Midtown and the city at large, but just as other cities have proven, there’s no reason that the nightlife has to diminish. Let’s think big picture that’s all.
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Blanche = random (and quite possibly, stupid) reference to Whatever Happened to Baby Jane.
I understand your point...there used to be an amazing amount of nightlife activity in the neighborhood. I would guess that the thousands of new residents are much happier with the current street activity rather than bar crowd.
As exciting as it may be to visit a dense concentration of bars and clubs, do you
really want to live in that neighborhood? I don't expect dead silence in the middle of a city but wish that people would respected the neighborhood. When the horn blowing, shouting, stereo blasting, puking, singing and several other "ings" I won't go into, start happening at 3am, followed by police sirens and orders to disperse blasted over a megaphone, there's a problem.
I think Midtown is much better off as the type of neighbor it has become rather than the nightlife center is used to be. For better or worse, the number of corporate and residential developments doomed the nightlife.