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Only tangentially related, but I've been living in different parts of the metro Atlanta area for over 20 years and had never heard of most of the areas of town that the article references. I guess people who were born here may be more familiar with those areas.

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Funny. My grandparents moved into one of those neighborhoods (Peoplestown) ~1920. I remember eating figs and pecans from the trees they planted and nurtured.

It’s amazing when you walk those streets — abandoned train tracks, memorials to Black churches burned during the Jim Crow era, artwork long abandoned. For all it’s lack of design at least the city still has immense green space.

Moved to ATL in 2002. There are a great number of intown neighborhoods, many with their own park/square. And many with their own cultural quirks.

Since I have lived exclusively ITP, I would be fairly lost on the details of OTP neighborhoods.

> I guess people who were born here may be more familiar with those areas.

Not really. Spent first 23 years of life there. The whole car culture killed my ability to serendipitously encounter many of these various areas.

It might be that he cycles and has more time to notice the areas? I know from my own cycling I'll often chose routes that Ive not been before just to see whats there?

Me too! There's all kinds of weird tiny neighborhoods around that I've never heard of until I started this

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