That sort of gives me the chills. The Perimeter. Reminds me of the old movies, Escape From New York or Mad Max.
What a state of affairs - taxpayers are paying for city services for vast areas of the city they dare not enter.
That’s one of the good things about Atlanta. The City of Atlanta proper is only on the order of 10-15% of the metro area population, depending on where you stop with “metro area”. The City itself is relatively small. It isn’t even all of the area inside the Perimeter.