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

Chicago is on our list, too but holy shit the property taxes are almost 4x TN.

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u/sgw40 Sep 16 '24

Not to mention that large state income tax burden that Illinois residents face.

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u/EnvironmentalCrew265 Sep 16 '24

We moved from Tennessee to Illinois two years ago and our price of living dropped significantly. Tennessee cost twice as much to live as Illinois.

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u/cucumber_breath Sep 16 '24

I moved from Chicago to Nashville in 2021 and this is just a flat out lie. There is no data to support a 2x cost of living.

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u/EnvironmentalCrew265 Sep 16 '24

That is my personal experience. It was the best move and are cost of living dropped significantly. I will never move back to Tennessee and I owe over 200 acres in Tennessee still.

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u/Pruzter Sep 16 '24

Well, you are definitely an exception and not the norm. I fled Chicago a few years back, will never return. All of my close friends by now have also done the same. Illinois is definitely not a place people feel proud to live in. It’s the only place I think I’ll ever live where I personally witnessed multiple shootings just going about my normal life. Nothing is worth that.

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u/Successful_Amoeba509 Sep 17 '24

I lived in Chicago proper myself and I'm having a hard time understanding where these people are getting their figures. I fled the end of 2020 and I live in Hermitage now. It's cheaper out here. I don't see any other way to say it than that.

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u/EnvironmentalCrew265 Sep 16 '24

Your view of Illinois is my view of Tennessee. So we can agree to disagree.

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u/Pruzter Sep 16 '24

Fair enough

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u/Important_Bee_1879 Sep 17 '24

Dude, people shoot each other on the bloody freeway here. 😵. I’ve never lived anywhere else where people didn’t have enough sense to know what a bad idea that is.

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u/Pruzter Sep 17 '24

They do that in Chicago as well. The tough thing about Chicago is you can’t hide from the crime, it spills into even the nice neighborhoods.

It’s not the best methodology as it is anecdotal, but in Chicago I personally saw multiple shootings and I had friends in my immediate circle that had their cars jacked, that were robbed at gun point, or that also saw shootings personally. In Nashville I have never experienced or witnessed violent crime firsthand, and the worst crime anyone in my immediate circle has experienced is petty theft. Once you have lost your trust in a city from negative personal experience, it’s tough for the city to gain it back.

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u/atwood_office Sep 17 '24

A woman was robbed at gun point a few blocks from new trier at the Indian hill club circular drive a few months ago around 9am

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u/Unique_Midnight_6924 Sep 19 '24

I lived in Chicago and Nashville each for more than a decade and I’ve seen more violence firsthand in Nashville.

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u/Pruzter Sep 19 '24 edited Sep 19 '24

I’ve lived in the nicer areas of both, it’s really not a comparison. I’ve never seen roving gangs on nice summer days in the nice areas of Nashville, storming stores to rob them as a mob. Or when two competing rival gangs come across each other and start shooting at each other. I don’t know anyone that has been car jacked in broad daylight, a regular occurrence in Chicago.

I’m not saying Nashville has no crime, it just stays to the level of petty theft in the nicer areas, and the violent crime is more concentrated to the bad areas of town. The one plus side to not having public transit…

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u/Unique_Midnight_6924 Sep 19 '24

It really is not a regular occurrence, don’t know what Fox News bullshit feed you are on.

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u/Pruzter Sep 19 '24

Again, I’ve seen this with my own eyes. I don’t watch Fox News. But go ahead, continue to tell me what my life experiences have been.

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u/Unique_Midnight_6924 Sep 19 '24

You personally have seen regular car jackings in Chicago? Where and when?

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u/Fuck-You-Shady-Ppl Sep 16 '24

Aw…come on man, let me just have some