COMMENT BY
DeWayne from La Vergne, TN
COMMENT ABOUT PLACE
La Vergne, TN
COMMENT
Nashville Is The American Dream!
Please Read the Entire Post before you judge
I give Nashville a 4 only because I can't give it a 3.5. I am one of the very few people left who is from Nashville. My parents, grandparents, and great grandparents are from hear and I am raising my children here. I have lived in NYC, ATL, and Pennsylvania. there are a lot of valid points that people make about Nashville that are negative.
1) the traffic is crazy!- true
2) sidewalks are either nonexistent in many areas- true
3) public transit is atrocious- true
4) homeless- True
5)gentrification- True
5) Everything else- eh
There is one thing that most people leave out of their critic of these cities. Whether it's Nashville, ATL, NYC, or wherever...Name the city...name the part of the country. The thing that most of these people fail to mention is that they came from SOMEWHERE ELSE and they are part of the problem! Give yourself a one-star rating if you came to the city 5,10,20 years ago and don't like traffic, or no sidewalks, or you feel like there are too many homeless or there's too much gentrification. My Nashville Public School education tells me that this is tragically ironic.
Most of the times people come here and they either simply don't vote for the progress that is needed or they think that cities should just automatically have nice stuff. I'm sorry to tell you that is not the way it works. In older cities like Pittsburgh etc. you didn't have to lift a finger because most of your parents and grandparents made the sacrifices while you got to enjoy the benefits. But instead of being happy where you were you come to cities like Nashville, ATL, Charlotte etc. and want what you had elsewhere while not voting or voting to block stuff that would actually make these cities better. Why? Because you don't want to pay more taxes? Because you want to trash the city or give it a bad name? So what do you do about it? Ah I'm glad you asked. Your bright idea is :
1) move to the next city say Chattanooga or out to the far away suburbs (or farm land)
2) wait 10-20 or so years
3) Come back on this site and complain, complain, complain
4) repeat steps 1-3
I guess that's what you call "Livin' the 'merican Dream y'all!"