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Old 08-20-2009, 08:24 PM
 
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We have to choose between hope and family values? Darn, I wanted both.

Just relax, fumanchu, and enjoy your new city. Maybe fewer labels and "Kool-Aid" references will help you make friends.
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Old 08-20-2009, 08:52 PM
 
Location: Brentwood, Tennessee
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That is, unless the spiders take over!
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Old 08-20-2009, 09:02 PM
 
Location: Houston
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If Tennessee turned "Blue" tomorrow, Nashville would still be just as great a place. The Red State/Blue State thing is way overhyped IMO. It is what it is, rural/urban, but it's no reason for someone to move to this city but not that city. Particularly if it's a big city. A big city in a state with enough rural population to make the state red really has no impact on that big city being nice or not being nice.
Being a blue state is plenty good reason to leave the cities of that state. Just ask anyone from Detroit. Thanks to the closed shop laws of that state (and the collective bargaining rules the Feds enforce), the once proud domestic automotive companies and their suppliers have been nearly wiped out. Go check the labor and legacy costs of building a vehicle at a GM plant in Michigan compared to Nissan at Smyrna. Ridiculous contract work rules are a big part of this.

I'm also surprised that anyone in Tennessee would not appreciate the reason Tennessee is surpassing Massachusetts in population. That state has lost 1% of its population in the last year for a really good reason -- anti-business blue state policies and high taxes. In contrast, TN gains population during the recession because of a pro-business climate, and more reasonable tax policy thanks to conservatives in office. Texas right now has the best economy on the planet, you think its a fluke or is it the business climate here? Believe it or not I'm meeting people who moved here for the Houston 7.5 % unemployment rate.
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Old 08-21-2009, 05:25 AM
 
Location: Brentwood, Tennessee
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Well, it's too bad that a thread that started out as a compliment to our city has to take a divisive tone. Hard to believe that anyone would think a thriving city in America would have one be homogenous in one way or another. Wasn't the whole idea of America supposed to be based on a whole lot of freedoms? Not everything is about politics...people of different beliefs can coexist very peacefully, it happens all the time.
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Old 08-21-2009, 06:09 AM
 
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I have visited Nashville with my wife and she is in love.She is from a small town and she really feels the "small town"luv here as well as the southern hospitality that is often mentioned.Me well I like it there,but I always wanted to move to NC,BUT I could see living and starting my business there.I have already applied for school there.So to make a long post short...Nashville is on point and the food is great(Now if you could just get a basketball team.)LOL!!!!!!
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Old 08-21-2009, 06:27 AM
 
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That is, unless the spiders take over!
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Old 08-21-2009, 06:29 AM
 
Location: Brentwood, Tennessee
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I have visited Nashville with my wife and she is in love.She is from a small town and she really feels the "small town"luv here as well as the southern hospitality that is often mentioned.Me well I like it there,but I always wanted to move to NC,BUT I could see living and starting my business there.I have already applied for school there.So to make a long post short...Nashville is on point and the food is great(Now if you could just get a basketball team.)LOL!!!!!!

Welcome and good luck!
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Old 08-21-2009, 07:17 AM
 
Location: South Carolina
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Being a blue state is plenty good reason to leave the cities of that state. Just ask anyone from Detroit.
That thesis is highly flawed. Taking the economically deteriorating Detroit and attempting to cast a wide net across all blue states is the height of fallacy. San Francisco is in the middle of a very blue state, and it has a strong economy, is beautifully developed, and is highly popular nationally and internationally. People talk all the time about wanting to live in Chicago and the city has a wealth of amenities as well as the best waterfront in the nation, and it is in a solidly blue state. People marvel over the architecture of Boston and over how green and beautiful Seattle is, both of those being in solidly blue states. Portland, OR is a mecca for bike culture and for smart growth, and hordes of people view the city VERY favorably, and it's in a blue state. Being a blue state is a TERRIBLE and whimsical reason to leave the cities of that state. Economic erosion is a much better reason, and would be the primary reason for the city you DO cite.

The statement you made is in the same mold as somebody saying the United States is a dirty and overcrowded place, just ask anyone from NYC. Or like saying red states are nothing but small hick cities and rural hick towns, just ask Mississippi.

Whether a state is blue or red is one of the most absurd reasons I have ever heard for deciding to move or not to move to a city in that state.
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Old 08-21-2009, 09:31 AM
 
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Welcome and good luck!

See....?This is why Nashville is tops to me.Alleycat is another informative and nice poster.You guys rock.Thank you and by December my wife and I will have found a job by then.
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Old 08-21-2009, 10:28 AM
 
Location: Madison, Tennessee
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I hope so too. Nashville is a wonderful friendly town, that is rich in culture and family values. This is one of the main reasons we are moving there. I just really hope that transplants from the Left Coast and/or Northeast haven't relocated to Nashville and brought along their "Change" and "Hope" Kool-Aid.
Excuse me? I've been here twenty years, and don't appreciate newcomers making this kind of comment about those of us who've made Nashville our home. You won't be escaping "those people" -- there are plenty of us here.

And we probably have far more in common with you than you might think.
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