"Decatur isn't Atlanta"- ying yang twins

[Peter Parker]

Yeah people from Fulton like ATL for real for real say that shyt, it’s all Atlanta really tho.

They say it about college park, Stone Mountain, all that

 

[Pure Water]

I’ve been to Decatur and Decatur is a nice ass town. I’m from Chicago and it’s essentially like our Oak Park and Evanston. An inner ring, upscale, street car suburb.

Yeah, I pulled those photos because that’s how Decatur looks.

Yeah Decatur may have a low end (which I hadn’t seen) but it couldn’t possibly be a substitute for “the street” that some of these rappers like to give off.

Everything you posted looks to be north of Memorial Drive. shyt changes after that. Matter fact, once you see Candler St turn into Candler Rd, you start seeing changes.

 

[bzb]

folks not from atl area or the dec or immediate surrounding area wouldn't understand the dynamics. the neighborhoods atl overlaps on east west south blend in because they're all majority black. northside atl is about the only part that isn't overlapping majority black neighborhoods. even each city has different dynamics. westside atl different from eastside. eastside decatur different from westside.


that said, false claiming ain't really a thing to people from atl. if i'm in atl and someone ask where i'm from i say decatur and we drill down from there. atl cats know the deal. if i'm in chicago and someone ask i might say atl just to keep it simple.

 

[invalid]

Guess you've never heard of Gentrification. Most of the areas you may have heard rappers rap about in the early 2000's are completely gentrified now, especially around East Atlanta, Kirkwood, Decatur, etc. There's 300k houses in Bankhead now. Atlanta has changed drastically even within the last 5 or so years.

That’s just what Decatur looks like now… and that’s what’s been gentrified. There’s still a part of Decatur that looks like what you’re expecting. Furthermore, most cities have a more affluent area.

I can understand this. I hadn’t seen Decatur in the 90’s. I visited Decatur in 2018 and 2019 and it looked like it was filled with Yuppies.

Also, it doesn’t seem to be that big of a town. Can you verify if the boundaries that are reported on Google are the right boundaries?

I’ve seen one area that’s in the southern portion of Decatur that I would classify as sort of hood. But it is a small portion and even other areas off of Candler Rd to the East are still pretty nice.

I still don’t think it justifies this persona that some rappers give off.

 

[Double Burger With Cheese]

shyt changing for the 2022. Anyone from the coli come to Atlanta, need to check in with me or one of the other big dogs from Atlanta on this site. If not, nikkas gon have issues and not gon be able to move comfortably through the city. Just check in with a real nikka and pay homage so y’all trips can go smooth

 

[FreshFromATL]

Those two are definitely some happy jolly country nikkas.

But I never understood how nikkas from Decatur be acting so hard when they come from a city that look like this..

You do understand you’re posting pictures of Downtown Decatur, right? Decatur is big as fukk my boy.

 

[Fat Fred Jones]

As an Atlanta native (Thomasville - 4 Seasons), I find this whole argument silly. It's pretty much understood that most people claim the greater, known city when talking to people from outside the state. It just makes it easier and goes for most major metro areas. Unless you're providing an address for a delivery or something, it's really not that serious.

At the heart of it, what message do you believe someone is trying to convey by claiming a particular city? Nobody truly about business is using where they're from as anything beyond a passing topic in conversation.

 

[Pure Water]

There's also a lot of unincorporated places for whatever reason. Candler-Mcafee which starts on Glenwood is 80 percent black. It's not it's own city.

 

[invalid]

You do understand you’re posting pictures of Downtown Decatur, right? Decatur is big as fukk my boy.

What?

Decatur is 4.6 square miles with a population of 25k.

I compared Decatur to Oak Park, which is an area that I lived near and Oak Park is roughly the same size around 4.6 miles but with double the population at 54k.

I can drive through one end of Oak Park to the other end within 5 minutes. It is not a large suburb whatsoever.

Compare that with another suburb Naperville, which is 40 square miles and has a population of 150k. That’s a big ass suburb. And Naperville is hardly the wealthiest town but if you picked it up and placed it in Atlanta, it would be wealthier than Alpharetta, Duluth, and John’s Creek combined. It has the population of all three of those towns with an median income that is par and/or surpasses the three.

I guess shyt is just relative.

 

[Buckeye Fever]

It's in Illinois @Buckeye Fever

We even gave Chicago a team that they can run wit'

And the thanks we get is dudes like @The Hon. Stringer Bell clownin' us about tractors and farms

 

[Problematic Pat]

East Point and College Park ain't Atlanta either.

 

[FreshFromATL]

What?

Decatur is 4.6 square miles with a population of 25k.

I compared Decatur to Oak Park, which is an area that I lived near and Oak Park is roughly the same size around 4.6 miles but with double the population at 54k.

I can drive through one end of Oak Park to the other end within 5 minutes. It is not a large suburb whatsoever.

Compare that with another suburb Naperville, which is 40 square miles and has a population of 150k. That’s a big ass suburb. And Naperville is hardly the wealthiest town but if you picked it up and placed it in Atlanta, it would be wealthier than Alpharetta, Duluth, and John’s Creek combined. It has the population of all three of those towns with an average income that is par and/or surpasses the three.

I guess shyt is just relative.

i have no idea what you’re talking about, I’m just telling you, you don’t know what you’re talking about when it comes to Decatur, bruh. Anyone from Atlanta will come in here and tell you.

 

[Collateral]

NYC yea l see what u saying. But yea a lot of NY people are ignorant to the geography of the city all around. BK and Queens both on Long Island but ask an ignorant nikka and they think LI need a bridge. Lol

Breh I dead had to look at a map just now. You're right

 

[murksiderock]

Is DeKalb County considered Atlanta? A place called Lithonia?

I was fukking with this bytch from there who used to claim Atlanta and I used to about her not really being from Atlanta eventually she really got tight

In NYC if you not from the boroughs you not from here. shyt nikkas don’t even be claiming Staten Island

Outta state muhfukkas from Westchester to Nassau to Suffolk all claim The City...

Those two are definitely some happy jolly country nikkas.

But I never understood how nikkas from Decatur be acting so hard when they come from a city that look like this..

Nah Decatur got some tough spots...

 

[Deoji]

What?

Decatur is 4.6 square miles with a population of 25k.

I compared Decatur to Oak Park, which is an area that I lived near and Oak Park is roughly the same size around 4.6 miles but with double the population at 54k.

I can drive through one end of Oak Park to the other end within 5 minutes. It is not a large suburb whatsoever.

Compare that with another suburb Naperville, which is 40 square miles and has a population of 150k. That’s a big ass suburb. And Naperville is hardly the wealthiest town but if you picked it up and placed it in Atlanta, it would be wealthier than Alpharetta, Duluth, and John’s Creek combined. It has the population of all three of those towns with an median income that is par and/or surpasses the three.

I guess shyt is just relative.

Lol. Yall nikkas don't know what yall talking bout. There are essentially 2 Decaturs: City of Decatur and unincorporated Decatur (aka white Decatur and black Decatur). They both border East Lake which is the east most neighborhood in the city of Atlanta. Decatur is not "20 mins from Atlanta"