I live in the state and you about summed up my thoughts. Nashville will keep expanding at a geometric rate. There's no stopping it, and eventually the state legislature will sell out their own future as hordes of shitlibs move in to work in tech in Nashville or spread out thru the state. We have some more "red meat" socially conservative legislation that has kept the state from getting turned purple but the legislature just chickens out before bothering to do anything substantial or really cool. Remove home rule from Nashville? School vouchers? Nope; we are going to instead pass concealed carry for teachers and some AI bill for musicians. Keep on keeping on! Local government isn't any better; most town aldermen/mayors are realtors. They'll sell off every strip of land until the entire state has become cookie cutter suburbs. Knoxville is a nice town, it's definitely got more soul than Nashville in all the areas that matter. Small town TN is cozy too but if you're young then there is virtually nothing to do unless you grew up in the area and your friends are homebodies too. West TN is a wasteland, purely a massive transit and agribusiness hub. Some cool areas and there is potential if someone were to put the effort into thoughtful development aside from Memphrica-which you should only visit with a 40 man mechanized element-there's not much there. Gatlinburg has gotten substantially worse, do NOT visit it during a major break otherwise it'll be full of the worst types of bums. I drove out to visit a cousin of mine and her friends who were there for fall-break and the town was completely overrun by freaks and tons of mystery meat huemans. The Smokies are great but there was a ton of people there even on a random weekend the trails will have bums who HAVE to listen to music on a bluetooth speaker. I'm not sure if I'll stick around, move out somewhere more rural, or head out for greener pastures in the future with how quickly the state is developing. But I do know that this ain't sustainable and eventually it's gonna collapse in on itself. Or perhaps the unending supply of Tri Delt nursing grads from Ole Miss will keep the Nashville bubble going.
I'm glad that I captured the mood and did not exaggerate. I have many friends there and did not want to denigrate their home flippant, but from the feedback I've gotten, seems I am on target. Thanks for reading!
Yeah East TN is nice but not being a local I wouldn’t want to invade the place. Nashvegas has 100 move there a day. I’ve heard Chattanooga is expensive too
On my recent cross country trip from CA to SC Nashville was going to be the main highlight but turned out to be the biggest dissapointment. The whole place felt like a strip mall, more like Los Angeles 20 years ago. Meanwhile OKC surprised me, and I enjoyed my time there much more than I expected.
I live in the state and you about summed up my thoughts. Nashville will keep expanding at a geometric rate. There's no stopping it, and eventually the state legislature will sell out their own future as hordes of shitlibs move in to work in tech in Nashville or spread out thru the state. We have some more "red meat" socially conservative legislation that has kept the state from getting turned purple but the legislature just chickens out before bothering to do anything substantial or really cool. Remove home rule from Nashville? School vouchers? Nope; we are going to instead pass concealed carry for teachers and some AI bill for musicians. Keep on keeping on! Local government isn't any better; most town aldermen/mayors are realtors. They'll sell off every strip of land until the entire state has become cookie cutter suburbs. Knoxville is a nice town, it's definitely got more soul than Nashville in all the areas that matter. Small town TN is cozy too but if you're young then there is virtually nothing to do unless you grew up in the area and your friends are homebodies too. West TN is a wasteland, purely a massive transit and agribusiness hub. Some cool areas and there is potential if someone were to put the effort into thoughtful development aside from Memphrica-which you should only visit with a 40 man mechanized element-there's not much there. Gatlinburg has gotten substantially worse, do NOT visit it during a major break otherwise it'll be full of the worst types of bums. I drove out to visit a cousin of mine and her friends who were there for fall-break and the town was completely overrun by freaks and tons of mystery meat huemans. The Smokies are great but there was a ton of people there even on a random weekend the trails will have bums who HAVE to listen to music on a bluetooth speaker. I'm not sure if I'll stick around, move out somewhere more rural, or head out for greener pastures in the future with how quickly the state is developing. But I do know that this ain't sustainable and eventually it's gonna collapse in on itself. Or perhaps the unending supply of Tri Delt nursing grads from Ole Miss will keep the Nashville bubble going.
I'm glad that I captured the mood and did not exaggerate. I have many friends there and did not want to denigrate their home flippant, but from the feedback I've gotten, seems I am on target. Thanks for reading!
Anytime it was a fun read, I forwarded it to my family/friends who I thought would appreciate. Keep it up brotha!
Yeah East TN is nice but not being a local I wouldn’t want to invade the place. Nashvegas has 100 move there a day. I’ve heard Chattanooga is expensive too
Crime in Chattanooga is also getting bad, a lot of the thugs from Atlanta have moved there according to a friend from the area.
Driving through Memphis I saw a car just burst into flames mid-day on the freeway. I sped through that shithole.
On my recent cross country trip from CA to SC Nashville was going to be the main highlight but turned out to be the biggest dissapointment. The whole place felt like a strip mall, more like Los Angeles 20 years ago. Meanwhile OKC surprised me, and I enjoyed my time there much more than I expected.
Pantera in a Nashville bar, that’s new
I almost did a spit take haha
Glad you had a good time. Now you may go back to the U.S.