Give me a break, have you ever been through Fresno? Let me try and paint a mental picture of Fresno for you... pack half a million people into Jackson, TN and there you have it. Its probably twice as "country" as Knoxville and very heavily agricultural. Even though the nameplate population for Fresno is larger, the population of the Knoxville's metro area is nearly identical to Fresno's. I have been there many times and have a few friends that lived there... they referred to the city affectionately as Fres-blow