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/Big-Huckleberry-474 Sep 23 '24
Born and raised Nashvillian here (37F) and I think about moving a lot. I won't because I have family here and I don't want to miss out on seeing my nephews and nieces grow up. But damn, do I struggle with this. I used to love Nashville and brag about being from here. So much of the uniqueness that was Nashville is being commercialized for bachelor/bachelorette parties and other tourists just looking to get drunk and eat hot chicken. It's not even the tourists that bother me the most.
The city has become disgustingly unaffordable. Small, 2-bedroom, 1-bath houses in East are going for $400k. That is INSANITY. Rent is just as bad. And they continue to rise but what about salaries? Nope. I've found in Nashville you're lucky if you get a "cost of living" raise each year. Which is total BS because the cost of living has not gone up in here by 1-3%/year. So if you come from out of state and bring a nice salary to begin with, you're probably ok but not if you started your career here (during a recession).
Not walkable, horrible public transportation options and aging infrastructure. Not to mention how expensive parking is too. All of this creates horrible traffic, congestion and tons of ugly parking lots/garages.
A blue dot in a sea of red. It's so effing frustrating trying to push this state into the 21st century with its politics when the far right, Christian nationalists/extremists running the state government. It's like 1 step forward, 15 steps back. Why would I want to stay in a state whose policy makers consistently vote for laws/policies that could get me killed and/or are obvious scams to get their buddies rich (ahem, school voucher program).
As a women having children, it's absolutely TERRIFYING to think about getting pregnant here. What if I can't get the care that I need? What about my girlfriends and sisters? It's also scary to think about putting children in schools here since they've effed the public school system by diverting money to voucher programs and NOT paying teachers. I won't even go into the gun laws.
I don't know how anyone can say climate change isn't a thing because I feel like the weather is getting more extreme here every year. More tornados, snow/ice storms, absolutely awful summer heat/humidity.