Overview of Murfreesboro
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12/8/2006
I've lived in Murfreesboro most of my life--about 38 years. I've seen it grow quite a bit. On the plus side, it has lots of good neighborhoods, restaurants, and businesses due to incredible growth in the past decade. Crime doesn't seem that bad. I feel safe pretty much anywhere I go.
And the school system, while being extremely overcrowded, does a good job with their limited resources. The climate is moderate--not too hot in the summer, and in the winter, we get some really hard freezes, but for the most part, the winters are not so bad. We get maybe one of two average-size snows each year.
On the negative side, traffic is REALLY BAD. You don't want to venture out from 7:00 A.M - 9:00 A.M. or from 5:00 - 7:00 P.M. The roads in this city are simply not equipped to handle the huge volume of cars that flow (very slowly) through it. They're working on the roads to a small degree--but nowhere near enough. This has been a huge problem since about 1995.
Lots and lots of businesses. And home to a large university (Middle Tennessee State University). That's Murfreesboro's main identity.
Patrick | Murfreesboro, TN