Page 1 in today's AJC:
(You might notice that people didn't see this a something between Cobb and Fulton County. They see it as ITP vs OTP. Everyone knows what that means, even if they have no idea where the county border is. The Perimeter is the dividing line that everyone recognizes.)
If this were a sea battle, then Cobb County last week blasted a hole in the hull of USS Atlanta.
The Atlanta Braves’ move to Cobb isn’t just a matter of a new company choosing to locate in Marietta over downtown, or a few hundred jobs heading across the river from Kennesaw to the city. It’s a direct hit, a seismic victory in the eternal conflict between OTP and ITP.
Cobb, Gwinnett, downtown, Midtown. It’s all Atlanta, right? Sort of and not really. I-285 represents a sharp division of worlds in collision, with mutually assured derision. But it began to feel last week as if Outside the Perimeter might be gaining the upper hand.
