Knoxville v Atlanta (crime, obesity, etc.)

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Vercingetorix

Vercingetorix

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I'm originally from Knoxville. I live in Atlanta now. The frau and I have been sort of kicking around moving back to Knoxville for half a dozen years now, but it seems like every time we get halfway there, we have some encounter in Knoxville with some toothless redneck dumbass that sounds like he or she just barely managed to scrape him/herself out of the hills and into a Camaro long enough to make it into a Walgreen's down in the big city. And then we think about our two kids growing up talking like that, and that right there is enough to make us think that maybe Atlanta isn't that bad after all.

Maybe I'm a snob, but I don't want my kids saddled with that accent forever. *I* know it has nothing to do with intelligence, because a couple of the smartest people I've ever met have sounded like God's own Tennessee hillbillies, but I've lived away from TN long enough to know how that accent plays everywhere else in America. And I don't want my kids to have to deal with that.
 
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Vercingetorix your life must suck growing up in a Hicktown like that. I hate to drive down to the Braves games myself. All the drugs, gangs and shootings thats where I would love to raise my kids.
 
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nbmfk said:
Vercingetorix your life must suck growing up in a Hicktown like that. I hate to drive down to the Braves games myself. All the drugs, gangs and shootings thats where I would love to raise my kids.
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Yeah. because the city that has given us the Christian-Newsom murders needs to be calling other cities out for their crime problems.
 
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hatvol96 said:
Yeah. because the city that has given us the Chrstian-Newsom murders needs to be calling other cities out for their crime problems.
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Exactly. I've lived in Atlanta for 15 years, and I'm not sure there's been a crime as horrific that whole time here as that carjacking in Knoxville.

Plus apparently you can't even walk around Ft. Sanders anymore late at night. I don't want to hear about crime.
 
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And if the argument is over where the best place to raise kids is, can somebody explain to my why everybody in East Tennesse is so damn fat now? It's like night and day compared to Atlanta. Everytime I go home to visit, I'm struck by how enormous everyone is -- everywhere you go, you see these giant fleshy couples herding around their pudgy little offspring. You see six-year-old girls with what looks like a beer gut. You see flab hanging from every arm. You sit there at the zoo with your wife, and you look around, and you say, "What has happened since we lived here? Why is everybody so grotesquely fat?"

Believe me, I want to move home. I'm a Knoxville native. But when I see all these roly-poly little kids, and compare them to what the little kids on the playgrounds here in Atlanta look like, I just can't see it. Knoxville looks like a great place to raise kids if you don't care that they grow up as tubby little fatsos.

I love Knoxville. It's depressing.
 
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Vercingetorix said:
And if the argument is over where the best place to raise kids is, can somebody explain to my why everybody in East Tennesse is so damn fat now? It's like night and day compared to Atlanta. Everytime I go home to visit, I'm struck by how enormous everyone is -- everywhere you go, you see these giant fleshy couples herding around their pudgy little offspring. You see six-year-old girls with what looks like a beer gut. You see flab hanging from every arm. You sit there at the zoo with your wife, and you look around, and you say, "What has happened since we lived here? Why is everybody so grotesquely fat?"

Believe me, I want to move home. I'm a Knoxville native. But when I see all these roly-poly little kids, and compare them to what the little kids on the playgrounds here in Atlanta look like, I just can't see it. Knoxville looks like a great place to raise kids if you don't care that they grow up as tubby little fatsos.

I love Knoxville. It's depressing.
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...must depend on how many wal marts you've been into! Last time I checked......no difference between.
 
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Vercingetorix said:
And if the argument is over where the best place to raise kids is, can somebody explain to my why everybody in East Tennesse is so damn fat now? It's like night and day compared to Atlanta. Everytime I go home to visit, I'm struck by how enormous everyone is -- everywhere you go, you see these giant fleshy couples herding around their pudgy little offspring. You see six-year-old girls with what looks like a beer gut. You see flab hanging from every arm. You sit there at the zoo with your wife, and you look around, and you say, "What has happened since we lived here? Why is everybody so grotesquely fat?"

Believe me, I want to move home. I'm a Knoxville native. But when I see all these roly-poly little kids, and compare them to what the little kids on the playgrounds here in Atlanta look like, I just can't see it. Knoxville looks like a great place to raise kids if you don't care that they grow up as tubby little fatsos.

I love Knoxville. It's depressing.
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I lived in Atlanta in 88 (well Norcross/Lilburn area).

Unless a great deal has changed it's much more dangerous in Atlanta than in Knoxville (keep in mind I don't live in Knoxville and maybe I just stay out of the bad areas).

There are drawbacks to every area (fat isn't one, that's genetics and diet so I don't know why that would even bother you). When I was in Atlanta there was a culture of gangs and drugs that was pretty rampant. I wouldn't want my kids around that. Drug use even in the suburbs of Norcross and Lilburn was open on the streets etc.

It wasn't nearly that way back home.

Of course that was over 20 years ago. Now Meth is running roughshod through Tennessee (hey those guys won't be fat at least LOL). Things may be much better in Atlanta than they were 20 years ago.

I wouldn't let something as like the weight of other peoples children or the accent stop me from moving anywhere. Every area has it's own "accent", the Atlanta area included, that can be taken as a negative in other parts of the country (but you are correct the hillbilly accent and the ghetto speak are the two that have the most IQ points deducted on first impressions for sure).
 
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Vercingetorix said:
I'm originally from Knoxville. I live in Atlanta now. The frau and I have been sort of kicking around moving back to Knoxville for half a dozen years now, but it seems like every time we get halfway there, we have some encounter in Knoxville with some toothless redneck dumbass that sounds like he or she just barely managed to scrape him/herself out of the hills and into a Camaro long enough to make it into a Walgreen's down in the big city. And then we think about our two kids growing up talking like that, and that right there is enough to make us think that maybe Atlanta isn't that bad after all.

Maybe I'm a snob, but I don't want my kids saddled with that accent forever. *I* know it has nothing to do with intelligence, because a couple of the smartest people I've ever met have sounded like God's own Tennessee hillbillies, but I've lived away from TN long enough to know how that accent plays everywhere else in America. And I don't want my kids to have to deal with that.
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And people don't have southern accents that live in or around Atlanta, GA?
 
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I hope Tennesseeans never stop talking the way they do; I raised my kids to know D O G spells dawg.

Obesity is everywhere from Appalachia into the Deep South, with Mississippi and Louisiana ranking worst in nation most years. It tends to follow low incomes and lack of education.

Somebody has asked twice about how Chris Donald did and I've not seen an answer.

Not seen much linebacker scrimmage specifics either, other than claim that they were our weakest unit on D. Is McCoy back out there full-speed and hitting yet?
 
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Vercingetorix said:
And if the argument is over where the best place to raise kids is, can somebody explain to my why everybody in East Tennesse is so damn fat now? It's like night and day compared to Atlanta. Everytime I go home to visit, I'm struck by how enormous everyone is -- everywhere you go, you see these giant fleshy couples herding around their pudgy little offspring. You see six-year-old girls with what looks like a beer gut. You see flab hanging from every arm. You sit there at the zoo with your wife, and you look around, and you say, "What has happened since we lived here? Why is everybody so grotesquely fat?"

Believe me, I want to move home. I'm a Knoxville native. But when I see all these roly-poly little kids, and compare them to what the little kids on the playgrounds here in Atlanta look like, I just can't see it. Knoxville looks like a great place to raise kids if you don't care that they grow up as tubby little fatsos.

I love Knoxville. It's depressing.[/QUOTE]


I can't believe I just read that.
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I can understand that you don't want your kids to be perceived as ignorant due to their accent, but please believe that if you regularly spew this kind of nonsense around them then the perception of ignorance will be well-based. The worst part is you will have to blame yourself, rather than an accent.
 
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Vercingetorix said:
And if the argument is over where the best place to raise kids is, can somebody explain to my why everybody in East Tennesse is so damn fat now? It's like night and day compared to Atlanta. Everytime I go home to visit, I'm struck by how enormous everyone is -- everywhere you go, you see these giant fleshy couples herding around their pudgy little offspring. You see six-year-old girls with what looks like a beer gut. You see flab hanging from every arm. You sit there at the zoo with your wife, and you look around, and you say, "What has happened since we lived here? Why is everybody so grotesquely fat?"

Believe me, I want to move home. I'm a Knoxville native. But when I see all these roly-poly little kids, and compare them to what the little kids on the playgrounds here in Atlanta look like, I just can't see it. Knoxville looks like a great place to raise kids if you don't care that they grow up as tubby little fatsos.

I love Knoxville. It's depressing.
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just.....wow. Please stay in Atlanta.....that is all.
 
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Vercingetorix said:
And if the argument is over where the best place to raise kids is, can somebody explain to my why everybody in East Tennesse is so damn fat now? It's like night and day compared to Atlanta. Everytime I go home to visit, I'm struck by how enormous everyone is -- everywhere you go, you see these giant fleshy couples herding around their pudgy little offspring. You see six-year-old girls with what looks like a beer gut. You see flab hanging from every arm. You sit there at the zoo with your wife, and you look around, and you say, "What has happened since we lived here? Why is everybody so grotesquely fat?"

Believe me, I want to move home. I'm a Knoxville native. But when I see all these roly-poly little kids, and compare them to what the little kids on the playgrounds here in Atlanta look like, I just can't see it. Knoxville looks like a great place to raise kids if you don't care that they grow up as tubby little fatsos.

I love Knoxville. It's depressing.
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I don't think you can compare kids living in a lush suburb like Buckhead, Norcross, etc. (wherever the hell you live) to some of the places in Knoxville. If you live somewhere else less upscale, then maybe you can judge.
 
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the.one.the.only said:
I don't think you can compare kids living in a lush suburb like Buckhead, Norcross, etc. (wherever the hell you live) to some of the places in Knoxville. If you live somewhere else less upscale, then maybe you can judge.
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Because only rich people can exercise? Lulz.
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Vercingetorix said:
And if the argument is over where the best place to raise kids is, can somebody explain to my why everybody in East Tennesse is so damn fat now? It's like night and day compared to Atlanta. Everytime I go home to visit, I'm struck by how enormous everyone is -- everywhere you go, you see these giant fleshy couples herding around their pudgy little offspring. You see six-year-old girls with what looks like a beer gut. You see flab hanging from every arm. You sit there at the zoo with your wife, and you look around, and you say, "What has happened since we lived here? Why is everybody so grotesquely fat?"

Believe me, I want to move home. I'm a Knoxville native. But when I see all these roly-poly little kids, and compare them to what the little kids on the playgrounds here in Atlanta look like, I just can't see it. Knoxville looks like a great place to raise kids if you don't care that they grow up as tubby little fatsos.

I love Knoxville. It's depressing.
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Please stay away! We don't want someome as narrow-minded as you here anyway.:ermm:
 
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ladyVOLfan333 said:
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Please stay away! We don't want someome as narrow-minded as you here anyway.:ermm:
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Not sure just not talking about the obesity problem is going to make things better. I'm not sure if Vercinge has been to Memphis lately, but the people here make Knoxville look like an anorexia treatment facility. I'd really be interested to know what percentage of people have a severely altered gait due to their weight. It seems like half the people I see are forced to waddle rather than use the normal motion of the hips and knees. Still, I am a little surprised to hear that Atlanta is better off than Knoxville, though. I figured they'd have a sizable (oh yes) obese population.
 
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kptvol said:
Not sure just not talking about the obesity problem is going to make things better. I'm not sure if Vercinge has been to Memphis lately, but the people here make Knoxville look like an anorexia treatment facility. I'd really be interested to know what percentage of people have a severely altered gait due to their weight. It seems like half the people I see are forced to waddle rather than use the normal motion of the hips and knees. Still, I am a little surprised to hear that Atlanta is better off than Knoxville, though. I figured they'd have a sizable (oh yes) obese population.
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We're #1 !!!!
(Unfortunately, I live in Alabama. We lead the nation in obesity and type 2 diabetes.)
 
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Vercingetorix said:
I'm originally from Knoxville. I live in Atlanta now. The frau and I have been sort of kicking around moving back to Knoxville for half a dozen years now, but it seems like every time we get halfway there, we have some encounter in Knoxville with some toothless redneck dumbass that sounds like he or she just barely managed to scrape him/herself out of the hills and into a Camaro long enough to make it into a Walgreen's down in the big city. And then we think about our two kids growing up talking like that, and that right there is enough to make us think that maybe Atlanta isn't that bad after all.

Maybe I'm a snob, but I don't want my kids saddled with that accent forever. *I* know it has nothing to do with intelligence, because a couple of the smartest people I've ever met have sounded like God's own Tennessee hillbillies, but I've lived away from TN long enough to know how that accent plays everywhere else in America. And I don't want my kids to have to deal with that.
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it's quite easy to grow up in Knoxville and get out without the accent you are describing.
 
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All right, so now that it's morning and I no longer have half a dozen IPAs running around in my bloodstream, my comments last night about the East Tennessee accent were probably a little over the top. I will cheerfully admit to having a deep bias against the toothless hillbilly crowd, probably because I went to Karns High School and I was up to my elbows in idiots, but slamming the accent of a whole region was going to far.

I stand by my comments about the fat kids of East Tennessee, though. Maybe people are just poorer in Knoxville than down here in Atlanta, but whatever it is, there's a serious problem. I shouldn't have brought it up, I guess, but it's depressingly true.
 
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Vercingetorix said:
And if the argument is over where the best place to raise kids is, can somebody explain to my why everybody in East Tennesse is so damn fat now?

Believe me, I want to move home. I'm a Knoxville native. But when I see all these roly-poly little kids, and compare them to what the little kids on the playgrounds here in Atlanta look like, I just can't see it. Knoxville looks like a great place to raise kids if you don't care that they grow up as tubby little fatsos.

I love Knoxville. It's depressing.
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I don't know, You can't blame it on Sam and Andy's anymore! That roast beef with smoked cheddar was awful good.
 
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Vercingetorix said:
I stand by my comments about the fat kids of East Tennessee, though. Maybe people are just poorer in Knoxville than down here in Atlanta, but whatever it is, there's a serious problem. I shouldn't have brought it up, I guess, but it's depressingly true.
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All my friends and I always ate whatever we wanted as kids and were all skinny as rails. We had maybe a couple of friends that were slightly pudgy, but nothing like these kids you see that can't put their arms at their sides because of excessive armpit fat. With the way a child's metabolism works these kids really shouldn't be able to get that big. I'm surprised Lipitor isn't advertising to middle schoolers.
 
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kptvol said:
Not sure just not talking about the obesity problem is going to make things better. I'm not sure if Vercinge has been to Memphis lately, but the people here make Knoxville look like an anorexia treatment facility. I'd really be interested to know what percentage of people have a severely altered gait due to their weight. It seems like half the people I see are forced to waddle rather than use the normal motion of the hips and knees. Still, I am a little surprised to hear that Atlanta is better off than Knoxville, though. I figured they'd have a sizable (oh yes) obese population.
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There are a lot of fat people in Memphis..... but I just moved back from Knoxville and I'd place Knoxville well above Memphis on a percentage basis. Maybe it is because I live in the suburbs now, but I saw way more ridiculously obese children in Knoxville than I ever have here.
 
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