Something is in the air....

[u/Lost-Mode-2768]

Lately I've really noticed a weird vibe to Nashville. From the tourists to the locals, even the servers here. Everyone just seems so much more rude/angry/short than even 4 months ago...

I was at a concert last night, won't name the band or venue, but it just seemed like the crowd was super angry. Everyone was standing still, no one said a word to each other, even if they showed up with people. Even the band themselves seemed like they were just trying to get thru the set.

This is one of a long string of instances like this I've experienced as of late...what is going on?

Really just makes me want to stay home...but as an extrovert that's extremely diffucult for me...

[u/Ragfell]

As a Nashville local who got to do a semester in Manchester, the vibe of Nashville 14 years ago was more like the vibe of the Northern Quarter in Midtown, with downtown being more like Locks/Whitworth. Certain parts of Nashville very much like the Curry Mile, which you can still experience (at your own risk) on Nolensville Pike.

Much of the rough-and-tumble culture has absolutely been replaced by corporate interests, and a lot of the artists that made their home here have been pushed out by either predatory practices within the music industry or yuppies who are being completely subsidized by out-of-state money from their parents, thus dropping the floor of the gig economy to near-$0. Immigration from those states has raised the Cost of Living and local wages haven't caught up. (In 2019, the median income to live comfortably was $70k, and now, five years later, is pushing $110k.)

It's a shame because the city was poised to become something truly special...and then metro got greedy with the tourist dollars. :(

[u/ConcertinaTerpsichor → u/Ragfell]

God forbid they spend any money on schools or infrastructure.

[u/Ragfell → u/ConcertinaTerpsichor]

They spend a fair bit on schools, but most of the citizens vote down infrastructure changes...mostly because they are typically being proposed as being funded by property taxes on people's homes rather than on the businesses that are bringing all this godforsaken traffic to our small city (thus making it a big city).

The geological foundation of the city also makes it challenging because you can't install a subway in limestone, so we have to have an elevated train/bus system. Our bus system is actually fairly good for what it is (a seemingly ad hoc system designed after the fact), but would need to be restructured more like, well, Manchester England: actual roads that are only bus/resident access, mostly one-ways (a la music row), and central hubs to change lines (though you should be able to get from the far reaches of Davidson county to these hubs on a single line).

Unfortunately, that's a lot of growing pains citizens just...don't want. I'm sometimes one of them, and sometimes I'm all for it; it depends on where the money's supposed to originate.

[u/ConcertinaTerpsichor → u/Ragfell]

They never got around to installing a ring bus line did they? And the on dit was that the Koch brothers spiked the bus plan for West End Ave.