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/psychburn Sep 16 '24
I’m 50M, have lived in Nashville since 1978 and I will probably move asap.
The primary reason is that my friends have moved and making 40+ y/o friends with my niche interests (indie rock/film/art) has been extremely difficult in Nashville.
When I’ve tried, new Nashvillians tend to be younger and not into my bands or art or the belcourt. I mean…surely someone else in that fugazi doc last week is in the same boat?! ;) old nashvillians seem to have their crew from 1996 and don’t really need new crew.
But this is a universal middle age and/or me problem.
My issue with Nashville is that I feel like I moved to a new city without moving. I’ve researched many other cities and there are problems everywhere.
But imo Nashville is unique in that tourist culture seeped into the neighborhoods. I would never want to go to the gulch, downtown, or 12 south. Going to East Nashville if you live across the river is a bitch. And the style of tourism here (bro country, wedding, convention) is just awful to me. And most of the city caters to that. As does our gov’t. Anyway, I could go on. But I feel for everyone that once loved this once diamond in the rough city and has or is in the process of falling out of love with it.