Reviews & Comments
Nashville, TN
re: Nashville Is The American Dream!
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9/27/2021DeWayne,
I kinda get where you're coming from, but you're painting all transplants into a negative light. My moms side of the family spent generations in the Nashville area, and before that, they were just up the road in Hopkinsville, Kentucky. I was born and raised in Florida and moved to Nashville at the age of 18.
At first, I hated it, but then I grew to love it. I worked at Kroger back when working at Kroger was a pretty good job. They paid $14/hr to work overnight and it was a union job at a time when the union was actually pretty strong. I went to college and am a TSU alumni.
When the economy fell apart and the only job I could find was Kroger, who then paid $7.25/hr with a weak union, I chose to relocate to Texas in 2009 instead.
When I finally made it back to Nashville in 2014, I could tell that it had changed, but it was still Nashville. In 2018 when I came back to visit, it was a whole other city. I didn't recognize anything. It was full of tall/skinny houses, East Nashville had been gentrified. People were blowing their horns the second the traffic light turned green, it was a crazy mess.
During my time there, Nashville was always a pretty liberal city, but it's completely out of control now. As someone that's lived in Texas now for about 12 years and watched the deterioration of Austin, I can see the similarities. Californians are like locusts and all they do is destroy everywhere they go.
The Nashville of the 1990's is long gone and it saddens the hell out of me because I wanted to raise my children there. Now, I feel like Houston is a better option. How damn sad is that?
P.S. It killed my soul to find out that the Granny White Market in Forest Hills closed. They had the best food!