great place to waste your life away..
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10/17/2005
do not come here if you can help it. Memphis seems to be the light at the end of the tunnel for every white trash person in the south and every gangsta wannabe. If you want a "career" there are only 3 companies to work for: Fedex, Autozone and International Paper. Not many choices there.
Beale street downtown has to have a police officer every 25 feet all year long because of all the crime. The good news is the cops are there, the bad news is that they need to be there. Memphis is ghetto. Memphis is redneck white trash heaven. Its an odd mix.
In the burbs of Memphis you have collierville and germantown which is where the (predominantly white) upper middle class and wealthy live. Again, heavy, heavy police presence in these areas. Both of these towns have zero soul to them, just your strip malls with Abercrombie etc and the ubiquitous soccer moms in the SUV's. The problem is that since education level is very low around here, you get these wealthy white trash uneducated people who have inherited money from being here generations and generations....but they are still uneducated. You see rednecks living in $300,000 and up homes in Germantown and Collierville...very weird.
Anyway, as someone who has travelled quite a bit in America, Memphis is the place you do NOT want to end up..you will hate it here..
Dennis | Memphis, TN