{"id":45464,"date":"2017-11-14T13:55:01","date_gmt":"2017-11-14T17:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=45464"},"modified":"2020-08-04T13:55:13","modified_gmt":"2020-08-04T17:55:13","slug":"new-names-dont-always-equate-to-new-beginnings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=45464","title":{"rendered":"New names don\u2019t always equate to new beginnings"},"content":{"rendered":"

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File this under \u201cshit nobody but me will really give two shits about<\/em>\u201d \u2013 the fairly, newly formed City of South Fulton has voted on its official name<\/a> moving forward: Renaissance, Georgia<\/em><\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n

I don\u2019t hide the fact that I\u2019m extremely guarded on the internet when it comes to stating anything that discloses my general locations, but I have openly disclosed that my previous place of residence was most definitely on the southern side of the Metropolitan Atlanta area.\u00a0 I\u2019ve also said that this is a mistake that I vow to never make again, and that I\u2019m confident that I could not even be given money to live down there again, and it would be a safe bet that it would be a snowball\u2019s chance in hell that such ever happens again.<\/span><\/p>\n

However, despite the fact that I no longer live on the south side, I can\u2019t help but still be somewhat interested in the happening that occur down there.\u00a0 Sure, most of it is usually crime related or other things that are tragically ironic, but now that I don\u2019t live there, I can witness the things that go down there in something of an anthropological manner, because it really is fascinating to me the sheer disparity in quality of life the south side is privy to compared to just about all other reaches of the Metropolitan area.<\/span><\/p>\n

One of the hot topics in my fleeting days in the south side was the proposal that the southern chunk of Fulton County, so ironically endeared as simply \u201cSouth Fulton,\u201d was trying to attain unincorporated city status.\u00a0 And with just cause too, because it\u2019s about as secret as sexual harassment in Hollywood that the allocation of Fulton County resources was like 65% to the northern half, 25% to the area surrounding the airport, and a paltry 10% towards South Fulton.\u00a0 South Fulton had the worst infrastructure, the most promises that went broken and unfulfilled, and a general sense that nobody gave a shit about the south end of the county.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The thought was that by attaining cityhood, South Fulton could effectively privatize, if that\u2019s the right terminology to use in this context, many services, and build some sort of infrastructure that didn\u2019t have to be shared with the entire rest of the county, which includes the actual City of Atlanta, as well as the vastly more affluent northern reaches of Sandy Springs up to Roswell.\u00a0 And then the entire South Fulton region could live and die by their own sword, and not have to be held so much to the unequal and blatantly unfair allocations of the county proper.<\/span><\/p>\n

Honestly, it\u2019s a good thought and I get why lots of people who live in the area wanted it.\u00a0 Frankly, I knew I was on my way out when the initial vote for cityhood was on the ballot, so I figured to just vote for it, it wasn\u2019t going to be much of my concern in the immediate future.<\/span><\/p>\n

And in a positive demonstration of what could happen if people actually went out and voted, much to my own surprise, the vote for cityhood actually passed, and South Fulton was now its own city.<\/span><\/p>\n

However, you can change the labels of a region, but you can\u2019t change the people that live in it.\u00a0 At least not immediately, and not without tactics that don\u2019t involve opening a whole other can of worms.<\/span><\/p>\n

As much as the residents on Nextdoor seemed to be ecstatic and overjoyed that cityhood was attained, this was just on Nextdoor.\u00a0 And if Nextdoor is often a microcosm of neighborhoods and communities, then this was just a slice of the people whom some are very passionate and really ready to volunteer and put their best feet forward in making progress, but then there are plenty of others who exist to simply use the forum to bitch and complain about their petty issues, whistle blow on minor nuisances, and then there are assholes like me who just love to watch the chaos from a nice safe distance, and seeing people try to keep the peace with quotes from the bible while simultaneously trying to get the last word and we all know how that ends up in predominantly black communities.<\/span><\/p>\n

Needless to say, the vote for cityhood passed around this time last year.\u00a0 Last year<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Today, it\u2019s announced their new name, Renaissance, Georgia.\u00a0 Today<\/em>.\u00a0 A year later<\/em>.\u00a0 Just to come up with a name<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

There are still no real elected officials in place, yet thousands of dollars have already been spent on shit like a logo that\u2019s already obsolete since it\u2019s no longer the City of South Fulton but now Renaissance, to which I\u2019m sure another few thousand dollars will be spent on making a logo for that too.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sure, it\u2019s no secret that news from the south side is sparse, and whatever does emerge is usually crime related, but I still keep a finger to the pulse because I\u2019m genuinely interested in seeing the life of my once home area continue to pulse and see how it develops.\u00a0 And, loving all the reasons that emerge that justifies my choice to bail when I did, and how good of a decision it was.<\/span><\/p>\n

In other words, nothing\u2019s really changed from an infrastructure standpoint as far as South Fulton County is concerned.\u00a0 Crime is higher than ever, police response times are still the same slow pace, and real estate once thought to be for shopping, future homes and basic conveniences, is being proposed to be earmarked for warehouses and industrial properties.<\/span><\/p>\n

People love to plan, to dream, and to debate change, but nobody really wants to put forward the effort to actually make anything happen.\u00a0 And when there are people who do take steps to develop, then the natives bitch and moan about how the things arriving are things they don\u2019t want.<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s almost tragically ironic that South Fulton is being named \u201cRenaissance.\u201d\u00a0 A name synonymous in history as a period of time in which art, technology, education and life in general, blossomed at such a rapid pace, that it\u2019s considered one of the critical points in which mankind itself advanced as a whole.\u00a0 I can\u2019t really say that I anticipate much advancement of society coming out of South Fulton County, considering I lived there for 13 years and bore witness to all the broken promises, lack of infrastructure and increasing crime rates that living there entailed.<\/span><\/p>\n

I will say though, \u201cRenaissance\u201d is far from the worst name to win, given the alternates.\u00a0 \u201cWolf Creek\u201d wouldn\u2019t have been terrible, but I\u2019m sure there\u2019s a stigma about being named after feral predators and given the demographic of the region that nixed that notion real fast, and \u201cAtlanta Heights\u201d just sounds like the ghetto people think South Fulton is.\u00a0 In fact, no matter where I\u2019ve lived in my life any place called \u201c_____ Heights\u201d was always a ghetto area, usually where all the efficiency living apartments or the problem children were all from, and even though I don\u2019t live there anymore, I\u2019m glad it\u2019s not going to be Atlanta Heights.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Especially since I don\u2019t know what\u2019s actually going to happen to all the current names of the towns within South Fulton, like Fairburn, Hapeville, Union City, and East Point.\u00a0 It\u2019s bad enough that nobody ever knew where Fairburn was, but if they\u2019re all under the umbrella of Renaissance soon, I\u2019d hate for people to assume I must have lived in like East Point or Union City.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I guess the home I\u2019d lived in longer than anywhere else in my life is about to soon become a thing of the past, and that kind of sucks.<\/span><\/p>\n

But despite the hopes and dreams of those who live in now Renaissance, Georgia now, it\u2019s going to require a lot of help and work from all hands on deck if it\u2019s going to have any chance in hell of actually developing and growing.\u00a0 The easiest thing to do would be to integrate a few penny taxes here and there to help build the county\u2019s coffers, but it would undoubtedly cause the natives to bitch and contest, and then perpetuate the cycle of failure that the area is already synonymous for.<\/span><\/p>\n

Some Renaissance, huh?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

File this under \u201cshit nobody but me will really give two shits about\u201d \u2013 the fairly, newly formed City of South Fulton has voted on its official name moving forward: Renaissance, Georgia. I don\u2019t hide the fact that I\u2019m extremely guarded on the internet when it comes to stating anything that discloses my general locations, … Continue reading New names don\u2019t always equate to new beginnings<\/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":[47,131,79,45,72,143,165,46],"class_list":["post-45464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-bataria","tag-branding","tag-cashmoney","tag-fail","tag-government","tag-ohatlanta","tag-politics","tag-zombieland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45464","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=45464"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45466,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45464\/revisions\/45466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}