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Originally Posted by starang21
EAST. LIKE WAY EAST. IN FACT, I THINK MARIETTA IS CLOSER TO ATLANTA THAN LITHONIA/STONE MOUNTAIN. AND MARIETTA (AT LEAST THE PLACES THAT I KNOW OF) HAS HIGHER HOME VALUES THAN EITHER AREA.
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Yeah, well Marietta in Cobb County as ALWAYS tried to set itself above, away and removed from Atlanta. That goes back many, many years ago. Possible during the two cities foundings. Atlanta first, then Marietta. Atlanta fell to the Union troops during the Civil War. Marietta sustained a little damage. Also, Marietta has better marble and granite quarries as well as farmland. 100 years ago the land was cheap and the homesteading/sharecropping was better in Marietta than Atlanta.
Then in mid-1950's major industrialization occurs with Coca Cola opening its huge plant, middle class families in Sweet Auburn and Inman Park. Slowly, corporate moves started taking place.
Safety and development moved in different directions in Atlanta. Marietta never kept up since the Olympics like other high end areas of the country (Like in Dallas--Park Cities Bubble and Las Colinas or Los Angeles, O.C. San Clemente-San Diego County Del Mar-Rancho Santa Fe and Seattle Mercer Island, Eastside).
The high end places in ATL became Austell, Stone Mountain, Lithonia, Conyers, some places near Augusta, making an access corridors from the oceans and Florida then from the North from New England and Midwest from Chicago. I-20 from the West is brought to Texas first... Hayle, my family has property in Sandersville, GA... I have ZERO idea what direction that is...
Very few native ATLians consider Marietta part of ATL. Marietta has ALWAYS been its OWN town and has demanded it so... Hey, when I was there--20 years ago, Cobb County was still having cross burnings somewhere every week.
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