r/nashville • u/Impossible-Pomelo-85 • Sep 16 '24
Leaving Nashville Discussion
Have you been living here for a while now and are you wanting to move either because of the traffic, politics, home prices, jobs, culture or religion etc ? Please share your opinions because I have plenty and want to hear other's! Thank you!
Oh and where are you moving to?
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u/[deleted] Sep 16 '24
Been living in Nashville for 8 years almost to the day. Sadly this will be my last. I love the city and its been very good to me, however my life and career are pulling me elsewhere. My wife and I will be relocating to Los Angeles next year for a lot of reasons.
A big one being that my wife is native chinese and there is basically nothing here that connects her to her culture. In order to eat something even close authentic enough we have to travel to murfreesboro (Lanzhou Golden Bowls, its worth the trip and really good). Other than that she and me as well dont connect with the south culturally, we aren’t religious, we dont care for sports, and both of us prefer more international food options than Nashville currently offers.
Seasonally summer as of late is too hot and too long, winter is fine but it gets very gloomy here in Nashville basically no matter what season it is. Gray is sort of the color Ive come to associate with the sky here. And being from sunny south florida it’s not really something I ever got used to. Big part of the reason I left florida was the heat.
Lastly I work in film and tv audio. My wife is going into HR with a specialization in the DEI role which doesnt really have much of a market in this part of the country. So career wise SoCal fits our market perfectly and I can make a lot more for what I do out there than here.