Wheatley pushes me to another one of his glibly hilarious posts that makes me chuckle and furrow my brow at the same time.  (Trust me, its not a pretty sight!)  Hahaha…hmmm…you get the idea….

In its latest poorly researched ranking of cities, Forbes Magazine named “Candler-McAfee” as the 2nd fastest dying CITY in the county, behind Bensenville, Ill.  What the heck is “Candler-McAfee?”  Well, the map shows it as South DeKalb…but there ain’t nothing down there with that name except for a MARTA line (as pointed out by DriftGrift over on FL).

So the silly county government model confuses another outside organization looking for cities to rank, resulting in the mag using a MARTA line to designate this “city”.

At least they didn’t call it “Decatur”.

So what about this made me furrow my brow?  How about this quote? “In 2000, 13.6% of residents [of Candler-McAfee] were living below the poverty line, about the national average. By 2007 the poverty rate had exploded to 27.5%, one of the highest rates in the country.

Regardless of what name we give this area (South DeKalb/Candler-McAfee/Decatur zip code), that’s a enormous poverty rate directly to our south.

UPDATE: OK, its not just a MARTA line.  Its a Census-Designated Place.  If I had read the Fresh Loaf post a little closer, perhaps I would have realized this.    See the good folks that showed me the light in the comments section.