Post #50307 by Basement Kahuna on Fri, Sep 5, 2003 9:55 AM

Roughly a 600,000 person old money southern city; (lots of "career" golfers, cute little dolled-up yuppie couples, and trust-fund babies puttering aimlessly around in knit polo shirts) -a wanna-be Atlanta, but we are blessed with a somewhat hip downtown (lots of bars, resturaunts, live music running all the way from hardcore to bluegrass, squats, art galleries, etc., sort of like a poor man's Austin, Texas). About a third of Augusta is Medical, and about half the doctors in the southeast train here, so it's a good place to have a heart attack. There is even one area where there are three huge hospitals within two blocks of each other. Next to a big, slow river. Atlanta Vic's 2 hours up the road.