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Also, the crime stats for Atlanta are very deceptive. Most of the crime is concentrated in Zone 3 and Zone 4, SE and SW Atlanta. Lots of causative factors, including corruption, apathetic police dept., Bill Campbell the scofflaw, etc. Outside City of Atlanta, the metro counties have very distinctive crime patterns. If you know the places to stay out of, you will never have a problem. Cobb County Police Dept is unbelievably efficient, alert, and helpful, they have a 3-5 minute response time in our neighborhood. Douglas County is another good area, malefactors from Atlanta in high speed chases have been known to stop and surrender to the city police at the county line - they know that the Douglas Sheriff's posse is licking their chops on the other side and that once the jury is through with them they will be doing hard time at Jackson.

From your response, I think you understand what I'm saying. I love Atlanta, but its not a first class city, but rather, a bunch of first class suburbs with first class people that are strung together in a ring around a second class city. Houston and Dallas are the same. In Atlanta, the burbs are the attraction; in NYC and Boston, as nice as the burbs are, the city is the main attraction.