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/anaheimhots Sep 16 '24
Moved here mid 90s. The recruiting pitch at the time was "Athens of the South," and "not just country music, ALL music." I was also advised to buy a house in East Nashville, and didn't listen. I am kicking myself for that, because if I'd done it, I'd probably have $700k-$1m in equity to go wherever I want.
We had a good, growing scene on into the '00s and every year, Nashville became more like the kind of city I wanted to live in.
But somewhere along the line, the Nashville PR and business community's belief in the "perception is reality" BS failed to consider that the folks they were working so hard to lure here, and locals who worked so hard to make improvements happen, had expectations that weren't being met.
Now we have a concentrated entertainment zone that's overrun with speculators seeking to make fortunes off of the tourists. The tourists, themselves, aren't so bad but all the trash transpotainment rides, rideshare, AirBnB, scooters make it impossible for anyone who lives or works areas the rides have crept into.
I dread the idea of going to the Ryman, now. I dread the idea of attending anything at the arts center they're planning to install on the East Bank, if Metro won't outright ban the party busses and scooters.
In another 50 years, when Nashville is old hat, it will probably be a fantastic place to live, if Facebook, Oracle, Amazon and other data-centric businesses haven't forced out too many humans to pay the water and electric bills that will go through the roof, to subsidize those $200k jobs our state and city governments wanted to bring here to buy our ridiculously over-priced homes.