{"id":38923,"date":"2014-04-16T01:52:25","date_gmt":"2014-04-16T05:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=38923"},"modified":"2020-07-11T01:52:38","modified_gmt":"2020-07-11T05:52:38","slug":"proximity-lols","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=38923","title":{"rendered":"Proximity lols"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Long story short<\/a>: Porsche is preparing to open their new North American headquarters in Atlanta.<\/span><\/p>\n

However, it\u2019s actually in Hapeville, a sub-city known for high crime and with the reputation of being somewhat \u201curban,\u201d which is the politically correct code word for \u201cit\u2019s a ghetto.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

I get why they say it\u2019s in Atlanta, and in all fairness, Hapeville falls into that umbrella that would be \u201cMetro Atlanta.\u201d\u00a0 Technically, I don\u2019t live within Atlanta proper, and my home mailing address does not say Atlanta, but I\u2019m also still a part of the Metro Atlanta region.\u00a0 After all, whenever I get jury duty every three fucking months, I have to report into the city of Atlanta.\u00a0 This is obviously a common practice, because Atlanta is a fairly well known city, and for the sake of simplicity, people and businesses slap that nametag association because it\u2019s just easier, than having to explain where places like Chamblee, Forest Park, Union City and Doraville are.<\/span><\/p>\n

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But really, they\u2019re not Atlanta, and neither is Hapeville.\u00a0 It\u2019s not that Porsche\u2019s utilization of the proximity rule is anything out of the ordinary, it\u2019s the fact that the reality of their location is actually kind of concerning.\u00a0 If they said \u201cAtlanta,\u201d but really meant a place like Snellville, Peachtree City, Roswell, or like in the case of another famous manufacturer, Lotus, actually in Atlanta, it\u2019s a different story.\u00a0 The aforementioned places aren\u2019t necessarily perceived as sketchy places, and aren\u2019t always mentioned in the same breath as daily criminal activity or police blotter mentions.<\/span><\/p>\n

Google \u201cHapeville\u201d and \u201ccrime,\u201d and from heat maps to various graphs and infographics, there\u2019s plenty of data that backs up the notion that Hapeville is statistically an unsafe region.\u00a0 Yet, in spite of that, an auto manufacturer with the reputation of Porsche decides to declare the place their North American headquarters?\u00a0 Did the Germans who agreed to this actually learn about Hapeville before making this decision, or were they simply duped into believing that it was all a part of Atlanta proper?<\/span><\/p>\n

Regardless, it\u2019s good for the general region in that some jobs will be created, and the city of Atlanta will be quick to usurp any stories of success as their own, instead of giving credit to Hapeville.\u00a0 But if the inevitable happens, and Porsches end up being stolen left and right, and their supposed test track is broken into on a nightly basis due to corrupt employees granting access for under-the-table profit, then expect Hapeville\u2019s name to be put on the chopping block without hesitation, with clear distinction that Hapeville is\u00a0outside<\/em>\u00a0of Atlanta.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Long story short: Porsche is preparing to open their new North American headquarters in Atlanta. However, it\u2019s actually in Hapeville, a sub-city known for high crime and with the reputation of being somewhat \u201curban,\u201d which is the politically correct code word for \u201cit\u2019s a ghetto.\u201d I get why they say it\u2019s in Atlanta, and in … Continue reading Proximity lols<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[51,112,45,15,143],"class_list":["post-38923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-cars","tag-crime","tag-fail","tag-og","tag-ohatlanta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38923"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38925,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38923\/revisions\/38925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}