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09-23-2024, 05:27 PM | #31 |
Would an idiot do that?
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Damn, at least it was a win or else that would have really sucked. I wondered about the dome since some of the college games were hotter than balls Saturday, and of course there's no escaping that humidity.
My Atlanta story isn't as shitty as everyone else in this thread... I was there ~3-4 months one spring years ago and it was mostly fine. Stayed downtown, did all the downtown things when I wasn't working. The only downside was getting asked for money at least once per day each way.... and some people were kind of pushy about it (but never had any issues). Even leaving for the airport early one morning, some guy followed me a few blocks to the train station and all the way down to the gate chatting and asking for money.... besides the 3 other people on the corner he was originally with, never saw another person, but he didn't stab me or anything and didn't get any money. Years later and a number of cities later, it's still by far the most often I'd get asked for change (but again, a pretty minor thing in the grand scheme of things). |
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09-23-2024, 05:44 PM | #32 |
Hey Loochy, I'm hooome!
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I've been to Marietta many times for work. It's actually very nice there..
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09-23-2024, 05:48 PM | #33 |
Everybody Lies.
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We joked last night that Taylor told Travis "No WAY am I going to ****ing Atlanta!" and that is probably true
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09-23-2024, 06:03 PM | #34 |
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They also have a world-class science museum, the Tellus Science Museum, in Cartersville, GA, about 45 minutes from Benz Stadium. I've only been to Atlanta twice, to visit a dear friend and her family and to run the Atlanta Publix Half Marathon with her each of the past two years. Had a wonderful visit both times. They live in Decatur, which is a very nice suburb, but the city itself also seems very cool to me. Good running community there, too.
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09-23-2024, 06:22 PM | #36 |
THIS .... IS... ARROWHEAD!!!!
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09-25-2024, 05:11 AM | #37 |
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09-25-2024, 05:34 AM | #38 |
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You guys got ripped off AND had to spend time and money finding another place/food. You got DOUBLE ****ed!!
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09-25-2024, 08:22 AM | #40 |
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ATL is the new gay capital you were prolly distracted
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09-25-2024, 08:39 AM | #41 | |
Seize life. Be an ermine.
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I find it funny how a city gets judged by an individual's experiences, and that the individual experience can vary wildly depending on where they visit in the city. I've heard people criticize Denver with complaints that aren't accurate at all for the area where I live, but I can imagine the complaints are valid if they happened to pick a hotel in a particular part of the metro area. Cities where I've had universally good experiences vary from New York to Los Angeles to Minneapolis to New Orleans. I must've picked parts of those cities that work well for me. On the other hand, I've been to a handful of cities where I've come away very unimpressed. I won't say the names, but they know who they are. But there's a decent chance that I could visit any of those cities again and like them. |
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09-25-2024, 08:44 AM | #42 |
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If you paid through a link we provided, we know who purchased and how much was spent. All we do is tell Paypal/Venmo refund the money. Here's the money to do that.
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09-25-2024, 08:51 AM | #43 | |
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09-25-2024, 09:01 AM | #44 |
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Seattle wins the shithole prize for me. What a filthy, blighted pit. And I deliberately picked a hotel right in the heart of the downtown business district assuming that, like Chicago, at least the downtown area would be clean and reasonably safe. Wrong. Trash, shuttered businesses and aggressive stinking bums everywhere. When we dared to venture out, the hotel staff warned us what nearby streets to avoid, and considering how bad what they considered okay was, I don't even want to think about the ones they warned us away from. It was so nasty that it made the Chicago Loop look like Scottsdale. And that was eight years ago, so I can only imagine how bad it must be now.
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09-25-2024, 09:01 AM | #45 |
Hey Loochy, I'm hooome!
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