Comments on: Decatur Can’t Register As a “Best Place to Live”

By: SAACJack

SAACJack — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 13:38:01 +0000

Yep…WAY too late on avoiding that!

By: Flaka

Flaka — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 02:12:07 +0000

I can’t believe that one of the measurements listed in the results is restaurants within 15 MILES!! That’s not exactly on the doorstep!

The whole golf cart thing is pretty cheesy. In movie terms, Peachtree City just makes me think of the Stepford Wives!

By: Russ

Russ — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 23:06:23 +0000

That’s it — I’m never reading Money magazine again.

Wait a minute … I’ve never read it.

By: H. C. Everybody

H. C. Everybody — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 20:48:33 +0000

Oh no, 6 injured as crane falls at Decatur Metro site:

http://www.hindu.com/2009/07/14/stories/2009071455301000.htm

I hope everything comes around–ya know, the whole life cycle thing AND not ever taking converts.
I really feel for the crane though–hangers on will always fall by the wayside, but to have the whole damn thing fall, that’s what’s really sad.

By: Nelliebelle1197

Nelliebelle1197 — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:28:52 +0000

That is too funny. I never thought of it that way, but that is so true.

By: E

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:21:19 +0000

I always laugh at the positive press that Peachtree City gets for its golf carts. This is a town that has taken car dependency and kicked it up a notch. Places that would be walkable are accessed via golf cart. That town has to be a current version of the ex-earthlings on the movie Wall-E, who are confined to chairs that move them everywhere, have forgotten how to walk, and are all obese.

By: King of Belvedere Park

King of Belvedere Park — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 17:58:18 +0000

Yeah, I can vouch for PTC being a hole. In college I knew a bunch of kids from that neck of the woods and they were, almost to a one, screwed up on some fundamental level – a bunch of latchkey kids with absolutely nothing to do but take the golfcart to their friends’ houses, break into the liquor cabinets, get screwed up and try not to get pregnant.

Not that the children of Decatur are saints or anything, but it was pretty much the worst suburban stereotypical excessiveness you could imagine. Also, yeah, the hell with that commute.

By: cubalibre

cubalibre — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 17:33:31 +0000

Any list that would rank PTC as one of the top 10 places to live has to have some mighty narrow criteria. My sister lived there for 7 years, and couldn’t wait to move. I even got to where I disliked going there to pick up our nieces or to visit her. People there seemed very uncomfortable with/hostile to racial & ethnic diversity (or, for that matter, GLBT folk), and the schools aren’t really all that (just try to find one of them in the Top 100 schools listing that DM posted here a while back). It’s one of the most culturally backward “modern’ suburbs I’ve ever been in, and that’s saying something (there’s more to life than being able to shuttle around in golf carts). I’ll take the cultural richness & relative “obscurity” of Decatur over the suffocating sameness of PTC any day !!!