That's racist!

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VolStrom said:
So you live a 3 hour drive (10 miles) away?
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Lol ain't that the truth. I live near Peachtree City/Senoia..so yeah, about a 3 hour drive to Atlanta.

I think I've gone to downtown Atlanta twice since I lived here. One solid afternoon and I had seen everything I need to see there.
 
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FLVOL_79 said:
Lol ain't that the truth. I live near Peachtree City/Senoia..so yeah, about a 3 hour drive to Atlanta.

I think I've gone to downtown Atlanta twice since I lived here. One solid afternoon and I had seen everything I need to see there.
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Well Atlanta from Peachtree City in a golf cart is three hours easy.
 
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FLVOL_79 said:
Lol ain't that the truth. I live near Peachtree City/Senoia..so yeah, about a 3 hour drive to Atlanta.

I think I've gone to downtown Atlanta twice since I lived here. One solid afternoon and I had seen everything I need to see there.
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Griffin native here. Left about 20 years ago. Brother lived and had his business in PTC. Senoia was only a destination on dirt track night.
 
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GVF said:
Griffin native here. Left about 20 years ago. Brother lived and had his business in PTC. Senoia was only a destination on dirt track night.
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Yeah Senoia is blowing up right now. I keep eye for a return to Florida though, these state taxes can kiss my a$$..same with the property taxes and terrible Veterans benefits.
 
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FLVOL_79 said:
Yeah Senoia is blowing up right now. I keep eye for a return to Florida though, these state taxes can kiss my a$$..same with the property taxes and terrible Veterans benefits.
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Yeah but everything else in FL is so expensive, the GA income tax is still cheaper. My step-son left Tifton after grad school to go to FL to be closer to company office. That barely lasted a year. He came back to GA. Got between Valdosta and Tifton. Bought a one year old house for almost 200K and mortgage is cheaper than FL rent was out in the boondocks. Heck, brand name dip is $8 a can down in South FL.

Now, I'm living cheap. Left GA 5 years ago to come to TN. Dad was UGA retiree. I grew up in Griffin where he worked. Was from Cookeville TN and family farm since 1823 he retired back to. My house and 44 acres deeded to me is coded as farmland. Neighbor grows hay on it so that's how it gets taxed. $300,000 debt free property with farmland tax value of $18 grand. My taxes are cheeaaaapppppp. And no state tax.

But, if you're up near PTC then yeah you are getting jacked. I lived in Hartwell another 16 years before leaving GA. 150K house on 4 acres cost me about 1200 a year in property tax. Wasn't the worst, but not great.
 
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GVF said:
Yeah but everything else in FL is so expensive, the GA income tax is still cheaper. My step-son left Tifton after grad school to go to FL to be closer to company office. That barely lasted a year. He came back to GA. Got between Valdosta and Tifton. Bought a one year old house for almost 200K and mortgage is cheaper than FL rent was out in the boondocks. Heck, brand name dip is $8 a can down in South FL.

Now, I'm living cheap. Left GA 5 years ago to come to TN. Dad was UGA retiree. I grew up in Griffin where he worked. Was from Cookeville TN and family farm since 1823 he retired back to. My house and 44 acres deeded to me is coded as farmland. Neighbor grows hay on it so that's how it gets taxed. $300,000 debt free property with farmland tax value of $18 grand. My taxes are cheeaaaapppppp. And no state tax.
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Griffin looked like a crack town when I was there last week.

I never had any issues in Florida with property taxes. I was able to claim almost $60,000 off my house. Here in Georgia? $5,000. But housing is the only thing expensive in Florida, everything else is cheap. And I can buy beer on Sunday mornings.

I'd go back to TN but there aren't too many opportunities in my line of work up there.
 
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FLVOL_79 said:
Griffin looked like a crack town when I was there last week.

I never had any issues in Florida with property taxes. I was able to claim almost $60,000 off my house. Here in Georgia? $5,000. But housing is the only thing expensive in Florida, everything else is cheap. And I can buy beer on Sunday mornings.

I'd go back to TN but there aren't too many opportunities in my line of work up there.
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Griffin is definitely not the town now that I grew up in. So much worse. HS then just didn't have the problems you'd expect from a heavily black (50% plus) town. The issues just weren't pronounced. We all were friends. By the time my niece got to HS there in 1990, there was a police guard shack at the entrance and her stories of what went on there were awful. I went back after college and managed in the mills until I Left in my earl 30's. But, I'd never go back. Haven't even visited in almost 20 years or more.
 
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Anyone else find that Gaetz guy saying he has a non White teenage immigrant son he has been raising as a unmarried man a bit...super f@@@ing odd?
 
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VolunteerHillbilly said:
From what little I've heard, Juneteenth was a relatively isolated event, celebrated in the area of Texas where people presumably continued to live in slavery for a couple of years after the CW because nobody bothered to tell them they were free. It's something that caught on with people looking for an alternative, or add-on, to Kawanza, MLK Day, and Emancipation Day. I don't know what people do on Juneteenth, as this is only the second annual celebration of that day in Nashville. I don't think it really kicks off here until later afternoon today. It's about 90 degrees out and humid as a mofo. Hopefully, people who chose to get out will hydrate properly.
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I was in Galveston on Juneteenth in 1988 and never heard anyone say anything about it. But I think it is a pretty special day.
 
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VolStrom said:
Yeah, it's funny that that in all my 60+ years on this earth I never heard of Juneteenth until a few days ago. I heard today some idiot politician wants to make it another federal holiday, just what we need another holiday.
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Sorry my calendar is full. No more warm fuzzy holidays.
 
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FLVOL_79 said:
I wonder if they looked like this...:

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Hate shackles for plump-wristed ones...
 
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FLVOL_79 said:
Anyone else find that Gaetz guy saying he has a non White teenage immigrant son he has been raising as a unmarried man a bit...super f@@@ing odd?
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I didn't know he was unmarried. Was he when he adopted the kid? If so, it's a bit odd, but who's to say?
 
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