• geogle@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    FYI, unless I’m mistaken, that is spaghetti junction and it’s not actually in Atlanta, but just northeast of it in Doraville

    Edit: I was severely mistaken…

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      1 year ago

      As another said, that’s not spaghetti junction (Tom Moreland interchange), but frankly people get pretty fast and loose with how much of the surrounding area they’ll call ‘Atlanta’ anyway. The actual city of Atlanta proper is much smaller than most people would think by just looking at a satellite photo, and the distinction between the many cities usually doesn’t matter much unless you live there.

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      1 year ago

      when people say Atlanta to people that don’t live in the surrounding area they really mean the greater metro Atlanta area.

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        1 year ago

        People from Atlanta really love to gatekeep the city, though. You live ITP? You live in Atlanta. OTP? You live in some redneck shithole whose name isn’t worth remembering.

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          It’s a distinction that matters. The fact that the City of Atlanta only makes up 1/10 of Metro Atlanta (by population) and that the rest of the metro is Balkanized into dozens of different jurisdictions is a substantial cause of a lot of the fragmented city planning and other related problems we have around here.