Why are suburbs always “leafy”? Another fake media cliché. Like when busses always plunge into ravines, they never just fall.
Couple thoughts:
1. the reporter probably lives in the city and aside from small parks and a few growing in concrete containers streetside, trees are the exception. In Atlanta, there are two types of residents - ITP and OTP (insider the 285 perimeter and outside the 285 perimeter.) Betcha this writer is an ITP person for whom tress are a notable environment. Marietta is indeed OTP. My guess is that the team of door knockers didn’t encounter many Trump supporters reluctant to vote, but rather a lot of fed-up conservatives disinterested in speaking with Kelly Loeffler for a GOPe photo-op. All of them had more interesting things to do.
2. Atlanta is known as the City of Trees. If you fly into ATL you can see this from the air. So yeah, if you venture farther than your downtown condo, Starbucks and the Amazon Fresh store, you’ll experience “leafy.”