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85SugarVol said:
Nashville sucks


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Except your statement is baseless lol.

Having lived in Knoxville Nashville and Memphis and ten other places, I can definitively say Memphis sucks. Roads crime politicians schools infrastructure, you name it, Memphis is below average (except food).
 
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My thing has always been that people like what they like, and their enjoyment of it is really no skin off my back one way or the other. Think Memphis is better than Knoxville? Cool, that's fine.
 
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jave36 said:
Except your statement is baseless lol.

Having lived in Knoxville Nashville and Memphis and ten other places, I can definitively say Memphis sucks. Roads crime politicians schools infrastructure, you name it, Memphis is below average (except food).
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I've done the same, and I disagree. I would personally prefer to live in Nashville and Knoxville over Memphis, but I absolutely would not say it is because Memphis sucks. Memphis, IMO, has come a long way in the last 10 years. However, Nashville is going in a direction that ATL was 15-20 years ago. It's growing too fast for its own good. I have other issues with Nashville, but for me, the biggest of all, is the torturous "country" music that comes from Music Row.
 
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LynxVol said:
I've done the same, and I disagree. I would personally prefer to live in Nashville and Knoxville over Memphis, but I absolutely would not say it is because Memphis sucks. Memphis, IMO, has come a long way in the last 10 years. However, Nashville is going in a direction that ATL was 15-20 years ago. It's growing too fast for its own good. I have other issues with Nashville, but for me, the biggest of all, is the torturous "country" music that comes from Music Row.
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I am not a fan of a lot of what comes out of music row, but every generation thinks that the next generations music sucks. Even Johnny Cash was not liked by the generation before him.
 
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LynxVol said:
I've done the same, and I disagree. I would personally prefer to live in Nashville and Knoxville over Memphis, but I absolutely would not say it is because Memphis sucks. Memphis, IMO, has come a long way in the last 10 years. However, Nashville is going in a direction that ATL was 15-20 years ago. It's growing too fast for its own good. I have other issues with Nashville, but for me, the biggest of all, is the torturous "country" music that comes from Music Row.
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That's more subjective than I was being. Roads, schools, crime, infrastructure, corruption in politics...These are all measurable things where Memphis lags behind, i.e. it sucks. I wasn't getting into tastes and preferences.
 
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Tennessee football signee Jordan Murphy says he's scheduled to be a late arrival in Knoxville this summer.

Murphy told GoVols247 on Monday that, after dealing with qualification issues, he doesn't expect to be on campus at Tennessee for the start of first-session summer classes on June 1, but expects to arrive in late June to enroll at start of second session.

Tennessee's first wave of signees are scheduled to move in next week.

“It was really stressful," Murphy said of the qualification process. "Really stressful."
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LynxVol said:
I've done the same, and I disagree. I would personally prefer to live in Nashville and Knoxville over Memphis, but I absolutely would not say it is because Memphis sucks. Memphis, IMO, has come a long way in the last 10 years. However, Nashville is going in a direction that ATL was 15-20 years ago. It's growing too fast for its own good. I have other issues with Nashville, but for me, the biggest of all, is the torturous "country" music that comes from Music Row.
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There's plenty of other music scenes than country in Nashville. Yes it's the biggest music genre in the town but there is different tastes
 
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Changes in the Tennessee athletic department continued on Monday.

According to sources that spoke with GoVols247 on Monday afternoon, Greg Hulen, associate athletic director and chief development officer for the Tennessee athletic department, announced during a staff meeting that he's leaving for a similar role at Florida State.

Hulen is expected to become the executive vice president of Seminole Boosters at Florida State. Tennessee has not named a replacement.

At Tennessee, Hulen was responsible for leading the Tennessee Fund staff. He joined the athletic department in February 2005 and has "been the lead development officer on several seven-figure leadership gifts," according to his Tennessee bio.

He was also "integrally involved" in fundraising for Neyland Stadium's renovations, Tennessee's Campaign for Comprehensive Excellence and the Campaign for Tennessee basketball, which helped build Pratt Pavilion and renovate Thompson-Boling Arena.
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jave36 said:
Except your statement is baseless lol.

Having lived in Knoxville Nashville and Memphis and ten other places, I can definitively say Memphis sucks. Roads crime politicians schools infrastructure, you name it, Memphis is below average (except food).
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Ha! Standard Middle/East Tennessee code for "too many black people."

I am from East Tennessee and I like Nashville and Knoxville, but don't pretend that this Nashville-Memphis issue is not debatable. Traffic in Nashville is almost as bad as Atlanta and Philadelphia. Meanwhile, you can drive anywhere in this area in 30 minutes or less at any given point in the day. As Nashville grows, so too do it's crime statistics. I'm not sure when you lived here last, but Memphis is developing in commercial and residential real estate, albeit not at a pace to match Nashville. There have also been several recent public projects that have improved road conditions. Public schools here suck, but I have to think there is a reason why there are dozens of private schools in the Nashville area. The point is, there are good things and bad things about each city.

As a Vols fan and a lover of this site, it is very disheartening to see that every time something good happens in Nashville, a dozen or more posters have to come here and take a dump on Memphis. It is ridiculously one-sided. I would think that people would celebrate the success of their city instead of going out of their way to denigrate a "rival" city. Most people I know in Memphis are excited and happy to have a growing, vibrant, fun city that is only three (3) hours away. Most people I know in Nashville are happy to have a laid-back city with good food, good music, great fun, and favorable traffic conditions only three (3) hours away. Give our common State and geographic proximity, what is good for one is certainly good for the other. That's my take anyway.
 
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Glitch said:
I am not a fan of a lot of what comes out of music row, but every generation thinks that the next generations music sucks. Even Johnny Cash was not liked by the generation before him.
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Yeah..but this crap is nothing more than slick overproduced pop music. It has nothing at all in common with any real country music whatsoever. Every once in a blue moon they throw us a bone.
 
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GoBigOrange86 said:
My thing has always been that people like what they like, and their enjoyment of it is really no skin off my back one way or the other. Think Memphis is better than Knoxville? Cool, that's fine.
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That's really not the issue. Everyone is going to have an opinion about which place they prefer. The thing that gets me is that Memphis is in TN, and I have to catch hell from fellow Vol fans about it. Well, guess what? We have a lot of fans in this part of the state as well. Just because the people aren't the same as you on this end as they are on that end, still doesn't mean there aren't a lot of people that support our university.

I distinctly remember my Dad visiting me at school, and we played golf in Sevierville. We got paired up with two locals, and when they heard we were from Memphis, the comments started. There is good and bad all across this state, especially in the rural counties too.
 
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ODTVOL said:
Ha! Standard Middle/East Tennessee code for "too many black people."

I am from East Tennessee and I like Nashville and Knoxville, but don't pretend that this Nashville-Memphis issue is not debatable. Traffic in Nashville is almost as bad as Atlanta and Philadelphia. Meanwhile, you can drive anywhere in this area in 30 minutes or less at any given point in the day. As Nashville grows, so too do it's crime statistics. I'm not sure when you lived here last, but Memphis is developing in commercial and residential real estate, albeit not at a pace to match Nashville. There have also been several recent public projects that have improved road conditions. Public schools here suck, but I have to think there is a reason why there are dozens of private schools in the Nashville area. The point is, there are good things and bad things about each city.

As a Vols fan and a lover of this site, it is very disheartening to see that every time something good happens in Nashville, a dozen or more posters have to come here and take a dump on Memphis. It is ridiculously one-sided. I would think that people would celebrate the success of their city instead of going out of their way to denigrate a "rival" city. Most people I know in Memphis are excited and happy to have a growing, vibrant, fun city that is only three (3) hours away. Most people I know in Nashville are happy to have a laid-back city with good food, good music, great fun, and favorable traffic conditions only three (3) hours away. Give our common State and geographic proximity, what is good for one is certainly good for the other. That's my take anyway.
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Spot on with the bold. I started living in Memphis in 2006, and it has come a very long way even since then, IMO. Midtown is a completely different and better area today, IMO.

Good post overall.
 
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ODTVOL said:
Ha! Standard Middle/East Tennessee code for "too many poverty level black people."

I am from East Tennessee and I like Nashville and Knoxville, but don't pretend that this Nashville-Memphis issue is not debatable. Traffic in Nashville is almost as bad as Atlanta and Philadelphia. Meanwhile, you can drive anywhere in this area in 30 minutes or less at any given point in the day. As Nashville grows, so too do it's crime statistics. I'm not sure when you lived here last, but Memphis is developing in commercial and residential real estate, albeit not at a pace to match Nashville. There have also been several recent public projects that have improved road conditions. Public schools here suck, but I have to think there is a reason why there are dozens of private schools in the Nashville area. The point is, there are good things and bad things about each city.

As a Vols fan and a lover of this site, it is very disheartening to see that every time something good happens in Nashville, a dozen or more posters have to come here and take a dump on Memphis. It is ridiculously one-sided. I would think that people would celebrate the success of their city instead of going out of their way to denigrate a "rival" city. Most people I know in Memphis are excited and happy to have a growing, vibrant, fun city that is only three (3) hours away. Most people I know in Nashville are happy to have a laid-back city with good food, good music, great fun, and favorable traffic conditions only three (3) hours away. Give our common State and geographic proximity, what is good for one is certainly good for the other. That's my take anyway.
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I agree with almost all your post, except that first line, I changed it a little. Middle class people of any color, generally do not feel comfortable in poverty stricken neighborhoods, no matter what color the inhabitants of that community are.
 
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