What's your hometown like?

[OPhiARen3]

So, yeah, my hometown's not cool enough to be on Wikipedia (although our neighboring city is - check out it's creepiness: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peachtree_City%2C_Georgia). I am from unicorporated Fayette County, between Fayetteville and Brooks. I'm going to talk about Fayetteville, because Brooks is too small to talk about (there's nothing there).

Fayetteville is about 30-40 minutes south of Atlanta, all depending on traffic and how fast you drive. It has lots of new restaurants and shops, as well as your standard Southern town square antique stores, sketchy looking barbeque places, that kind of things. It's a mix. There are old houses and big new box developments. There is also a pretty good school system, unless you go to one of the more rural schools, where you aren't allowed to say "the Civil War" (it's "the War of Northern Aggression") and field trips are things like visiting your classmate's farm (because picking cotton is educational!).

Fayetteville is in Fayette County, which is pretty much the whitest county in the south Metro Atlanta area. It's been growing a lot lately, which pisses off the natives, because they really want it to stay very country and very white, which it isn't staying. So, like in most areas of the South, there are issues with urbanization/modernization and racial conflict. Yay.

Some stats I found about Fayetteville by using Google:

Population (year 2000): 11,148, Est. population in July 2004: 13,858 (+24.3% change)
Males: 5,194 (46.6%), Females: 5,954 (53.4%)

County: Fayette

Land area: 9.9 square miles

Median resident age: 36.1 years
Median household income: $55,208 (year 2000)
Median house value: $140,500 (year 2000)

Races in Fayetteville:

* White Non-Hispanic (78.7%)
* Black (14.0%)
* Hispanic (2.8%)
* Asian Indian (1.3%)
* Two or more races (1.1%)
* Other race (1.0%)
* American Indian (0.6%)
* Chinese (0.5%)

Ancestries: Irish (13.6%), United States (13.5%), English (11.7%), German (10.1%), Italian (3.3%), French (2.8%).

For population 25 years and over in Fayetteville

* High school or higher: 90.7%
* Bachelor's degree or higher: 31.3%
* Graduate or professional degree: 11.8%
* Unemployed: 3.6%
* Mean travel time to work: 28.1 minutes

For population 15 years and over in Fayetteville city

* Never married: 18.9%
* Now married: 59.9%
* Separated: 1.4%
* Widowed: 8.6%
* Divorced: 11.2%

4.1% Foreign born (1.8% Latin America, 1.5% Asia, 0.4% Europe).

Population change in the 1990s: +5,464 (+96.1%).