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      <![CDATA[Bring it on! Mark's a sweetheart.
        
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      <![CDATA[Haha bobo's is what you call them. Who hasn't noticed these types for over a decade starting especially in Williamsburg, BK circa the late 90s.
        
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      <![CDATA["Bobo's - funny as hell.<br>
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Here's an idea...forget about it."<br>
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Did the term and its meaning hit a little too close to home, my friend?
        
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    <author><![CDATA[eric pfeifer]]></author>
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      <![CDATA["There are so many errors in this report - basic factual and geographic ones - that it makes me question The Atlantics credibility. I had to laugh when it stated that Dekalb has good schools.
        
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      <![CDATA[Bobo's - funny as hell.<br>
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Here's an idea...forget about it.<br>
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People do what they do and live where they live.
        
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      <![CDATA[it's true— it doesn't matter how liberal or hip we claim places like oakhurst and inman park are— the fact of the matter remains that even in the most "progressive" parts of the city, an enormous racial and class divide exists. it's a shame that many of us considered as the forefront of atlanta's resurgence live in neighbourhoods that are 95% white, eat at "charcuteries" and pat ourselves on the back for being so urban and liberal, while forgetting that the other half of the city exists.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Mark from Atlanta]]></author>
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      <![CDATA["Daniel Bell argues that this bohemian ethic, so long in opposition to mainstream capitalism, has become its dominant value (Bell, 1976). As a result the bohemian “counterculture” has been placed at the core of what drives modern markets to prosper.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Mark from Atlanta]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Here is the link again if the one above doesn't work:<br>
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<a href="http://martinprosperity.org/about/understanding-our-terminology/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://martinprosperity.org/about/understa&hellip;</a>
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Mark from Atlanta]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Here is a link to Richard Florida's think tank that came up with this study and the theoretical basis for the terminology. Seems elitist as hell to me, but what do I know since I am not one of the "Super Creative Core," which of course includes themselves.<br>
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http://martinprosperity.org/about/understanding-our-terminology/
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Mark from Atlanta]]></author>
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      <![CDATA["I do think calling one of them "working class" is a bad choice. Perhaps "industrial class" or "assembly class" would be better.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Rich Jenkins]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[When I lived in Atlanta, it reminded me of living in a college town. There was "intown" and everything else.
        
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      <![CDATA[I guess. I never thought the only people working were the "working" class.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[dogsdogsdogs]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[There are so many errors in this report - basic factual and geographic ones - that it makes me question The Atlantics credibility. I had to laugh when it stated that Dekalb has good schools.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Through the Looking Glass]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Thanks for the definitions. I've never seen the workforce broken down into these three categories.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[The Gorgeous JR]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[The AUC is right next to where all the hipster creative types live by downtown (CNN) and across 85 into Grant Park and Oakland Cemetery. The AUC is not on the purple but pretty close.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[ray b]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[There certainly are two Atlantas, and have been for a long time. And unfortunately, a mostly racial divide as well.
        
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      <![CDATA[I'm a bit skeptical about the data in the Atlantic Cities article. There seems to be some pretty big errors, such as claiming that the Atlanta University Center is located in the purple splotch at the bottom left of the map.
        
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