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Someone said that College Park is a warzone....but contrary to that view, it is also home to one of the south's oldest and most venerable private schools. It is home to a national known, 23,000 member church. It is also home to antebellum homes and a turn of the century downtown area. It is also home to a convention center that cities 10 times it's consequence can not boost. It's like the author choose (which of course he should since he was trying to be comical) the worst aspects of College Park and Douglasville to sell his book. Many people fell for it. I'm sure anyone can go to any city in America and find good and bad in an area. How many of you have been to Palm Beach County? Palm Beach is one of the country's most exclusive enclaves. Right across the intercoastal in West Palm Beach, you can see poverty. Would we base our opinion of the entire Palm Beach County on one area of the county. I would hope not.
I'm sure it has redeeming qualities, but I'm just talking about what I saw and know about the place. I saw abandoned buildings and all sorts of thugs roaming the streets, and the facts are that estimates place the city as losing over 10% of its population in the last 5 years and it has a pretty high crime rate.
You're probably right though, since I've only been there once (by accident).
Edited by moonshield, 10 July 2006 - 06:49 AM.
