Metropolitan Atlanta

Ahmed Ismail

Atlanta is one of the two major cities in the South East region of the United States, the other being Miami, Florida. Being so, it attracts many tourists every year who come to see its cultural roots as it also serves as the growth place of many hip hop artists.

The blog I have focused on, named inDECATUR, is solely about a town very close to the city of Atlanta named Decatur, Georgia. It is home to about 18,000 Georgians and is just to the west of I-285 and a few miles east I-75 and I-85 in the heart of metropolitan Atlanta. The blog boasts that Decatur is a "bustling, Inside The Perimeter (I-285) community retaining a friendly, small town atmosphere." And that it's "in demand as a place to live, work, shop, eat, drink. and play."

From having been there myself on none other than labor day of this year, I see that all of the claims i the previous statement is true. There were people out and about all over the place. They were either sitting in one of the many local restaurants that had outdoor seating, walking their dogs, strolling around in the little parks or riding their bikes around. It is also a very friendly neightborhood where conversation is bound to strike up.

From some of the many posts that are put up on this blog daily, I can see that it is mostly announcements that go on during the week and events will take place with open invitations for all of its citizens. I also read a post about a teacher that worked in Decatur High School that told of an activity she did with her class that day that she thought was creative and effective. I think it just shows the life of the community it self when you see a post such as this one. That a high school teacher would share something so simple to express why she thinks it's a positive thing and that it would be worth sharing with all others who live in this community.

It is people like this teacher, or like the journalist named Bob Fallstrom, who wrote an article about how if Decatur were to have a sports team, they would be named the Commodores, after Stephen Decatur, who achieved his fame as a commodore in the Navy.


The editor of this blog seems to feel that he needs to have someplace where the open and very much social community of Decatur can have a place to post community related ideas, stories, events, and anything that would somehow affect or put a smile on a citizen's face. I would think that the main thing the writers of this blog and all of its posters hope to accomplish is to commune and have a place to share their lives as it relates to their community.


The very first thing that is seen on the blog is the picture of the city hall, a place where the whole town has access to very easily. Their city hall is actually very available by Atlanta's MARTA transportation system since their is a station just a few feet from the city hall, where I have personally visited.


Posted by: Ahmed Ismail