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Move-ins outweigh move-outs in Fayette

Tue, 06/02/2009 - 3:42pm
By: Cal Beverly

When people move from Fayette County, where do they move to?

The answers from the Atlanta Regional Commission might surprise you.

In the period from 2000 to 2006, the ARC says neighboring Coweta County is the top destination for departing Fayette residents: 8,403 moved west across Line Creek into fast-growing Coweta.

The second- and third-rated destinations are the surprises: Fulton County to our north with 4,478 former Fayette residents, and Clayton County with 4,047. Spalding County to our south was fourth on the list with 1,030 incoming Fayette residents.

Fayette had a total outbound migration of 25,621 for the first seven years of the new century, the ARC says.

The flip side of that equation are the inbound migrants. Fayette recorded 28,554 inbound people from 2000 to 2006, for a net migration increase of 2,922, according to ARC figures.

Most of those new Fayette residents moved across the Clayton County line: 9,448 of them. Fulton contributed the next highest number of new residents calling Fayette home: 6,273.

Following them in order were Coweta (4,196), Henry (2,157), DeKalb (1,595), Cobb (1,481) and Gwinnett (1,159).

Out of state migration added 7,986 new residents to Fayette County, with Florida (977), New York (759), California (446) and Illinois (435) leading the parade into Fayette.

The top “origin” states for the 20-county metro Atlanta area? New York sent approximately 48,000 more people into the metro area than left here for the northern climes, followed by net migrations from Florida (+35,000), California (+22,000) and New Jersey (+18,000), according to the ARC.

Find the ARC charts online at www.atlantaregional.com/regionalsnapshots.

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These take us all the way to 2006. And then....
Submitted by MacTheKnife on Wed, 06/03/2009 - 1:55pm.

And then sub-prime mortgages started catching up to several of our new neighbors from Clayton and Fulton County.

Fast forward to 2009 >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Highest rate of foreclosures in history. Tax digest in the crapper. School Board can't meet it's budget. Crime increases. Foreclosed 'owners' fill up all the rental property and the rest go back to Clayton and Fulton leaving financial devastation behind.

The community then becomes a great place for companies to find low end manufacturing salaried workers so companies with lower pay move in as the high end manufacturing and technology companies move out.

Retail and big box stores open and hire people at minimum wage further creating a demand for low income housing. Additional apartments are built for the big box workers to live in, and the infrastructure becomes over used and overloaded with the increased traffic.

Since the infrastructure has to be improved construction is almost as obvious as the upcoming tax increases and budget deficit. More police and safety providers are required to handle the increase in population density and the increase in crime associated with a decrease in socioeconomic status in the households.

A bedroom community that was once high end homes full of high paid employees, low traffic, low density and low crime now becomes a sub-prime gold mine for families with no furniture, little education, and low income workers to share.

Low income property now abounds thereby increasing the population density and contributing to an increase in crime, traffic, and the burden on first responders.

The tax digest decreases and the school system becomes overburdened and insolvent ... unless.... unless .... the property tax paying folks who live in the overvalued neighborhood homes leave or are foreclosed upon or unless white flight somehow creates a decrease in population. With a decrease in overall population we all the see what has happened and freak out.

If that does not happen (the numbers APPEAR to show growth) but the tax digest drops and the density increases, then the whole bedroom community concept goes straight to hades and we aren't even astute enough to see it, recognize it, or deal with it. Well hell-o Fayette County! Can you hear me now?

I can't wait to see the report for 2006 and beyond.

Have a nice day.

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Surprising..
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Submitted by Gene61 on Tue, 06/02/2009 - 4:58pm.

My only word of advice, stay the hell out of ARC Marnelle on Highway 54 West..Its gone to hell...


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"Gone to Hell"?
Submitted by ohmygosh on Tue, 06/02/2009 - 8:11pm.

more like "gone to Tijuana"

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Tijuana...Now thats funny...but not really
Submitted by 1bighammer on Wed, 06/03/2009 - 2:24pm.

because its the truth.

Anybody wonder why that is? Well ARC caters to Latinos for a specific reasons. Most of them are illegal, they pay their rent, and they don't report problems so Maintenance on ARC properties is virtually non-existent. What ARC fails to see or doen;t care to see is that their "illegal" filled parks are havens for Drugs and Gangs.

I lived in Marnelle for several years until the "INVASION", I had to get out for the safety of my family and my belongings. The DRUG Task Force should do a sweep of that place, they would immediately make a dent oin the Fayette drug problem!

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Gone to Hell"?
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Submitted by Gene61 on Tue, 06/02/2009 - 9:17pm.

Ever increasing rent, lack of well qualified management, the lack of basic civility, all have combined to really make this one of the WORST places to call home in Fayete County. Drugs, Crime, kids doing whatever they please. Parents who fail to teach their children even basic civility to adults or respect others property.Young adults, riding past homes with music so loud ,you would they were inside your home. Community my butt, its more like a prison where the inmates control it, until rent is due anyway. Its always been women in the office, never a man. the women come in and have a little group of friends, then screw over the rest. The hours of operation mean nothing, tuesday till 7 ? Now thats a freaking joke. office is locked tighter than Obama wallet at tax time, see you should pay not him.

Don't you dare be late with the rent, its like you stole money from their wallet! You'll hear from management before the sun-sets on your butt!

You want a laugh, call after hours and listen to the answering machine message, now thats comedy!


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Tiajuana...Now thats funny...but not really
Submitted by 1bighammer on Wed, 06/03/2009 - 2:23pm.

because its the truth.

Anybody wonder why that is? Well ARC caters to Latinos for a specific reasons. Most of them are illegal, they pay their rent, and they don't report problems so Maintenance on ARC properties is virtually non-existent. What ARC fails to see or doen;t care to see is that their "illegal" filled parks are havens for Drugs and Gangs.

I lived in Marnelle for several years until the "INVASION", I had to get out for the safety of my family and my belongings. The DRUG Task Force should do a sweep of that place, they would immediately make a dent oin the Fayette drug problem!

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