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Message: [QUOTE="CusefanATL, post: 1054900, member: 853"] The city of Altanta has about 475,000 people (give or take). ITP (inside the perimeter, 285) has about 800,000 (give or take). The metro Atlanta area as a whole has 5.5 million. There are a lot of moving parts here. Demographics playing a big part. Some areas are getting screwed. Grant Park is absolutely 1 of them. So I do feel bad for your friends. But the majority of Braves fans are in favor of this move - just the opposition is a very vocal minority. They are vocal for 2 main reason in my opinion - and neither are rational. 1. It is a black eye for the city of Atlanta that they will no longer be in the city proper of Atlanta. but it is literally in a 10x better location than the current Turner which is south of Downtown and West of Grant Park literally in a wasteland of poverty. By being south of Atlanta, the core fan base (who overwhelmingly live north of Atlanta) had to deal with the connector (75/85 merge) which causes some of the worst traffic in the country. 2. it is moving to Cobb County. ITP'ers HATE Cobb County because it is conservative, somewhat anti-gay, religious, and has 1/2 the taxes of Atlanta and Fulton County. Some of the hate is legit in my opinion, some of it is crazy. edit: going to add a 3rd and it is the most irrational: they are vocal because of the taxpayer money being spent. But the majority of Cobb County and more specifically Smyrna and Marietta residents are for it and those are the people "paying" for it. For the record, I lived in Inman Park for 5 years and Brookhaven for 1 year (both ITP) and now live in Smyrna about 2.5 miles from the new stadium. I wasn't really pro-smyrna move. But i was without a doubt pro-get the hell out of the current turner field area. It was a dump with NOTHING to do other than drink next to your car and try to avoid homeless people trying to sell you stuff or beg for money. It was not a nice place to bring out of town friends/family. [/QUOTE]

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