Unless you grew up with Samuel L Jackson over there on that side of town…
And nowadays that side of town has built up and improved.
I think you’re wrong dude.
Baylor’s campus and surrounding is as nice as you’ll find at the high school level
Chattanooga is like almost every other city on the planet. Don't go to the wrong places, or to any places for the wrong reasons.
My wife and I have traveled abroad, mainly in countries the media tell you that you're guaranteed to get kidnapped by the cartel, have your fingers mailed as proof of life, and then murdered. Only once have we ever felt like a situation got a little sketchy, and that was because we made a bad decision looking for ice cream and ended up in a dark alley in Panama City, Panama.
Otherwise, it's been kind, generous, helpful people that love to share their culture. They'll say the same thing about their city as us Chattanoogans say about ours, and Knoxvillians say about theirs.
Know where not to go, when not to go, and what not to go doing.
The problem with statistics is that they make general statements, and then unfamiliar people read them, thinking themselves experts.
My brother is a cop in Chattanooga. He does a good job describing those violent crime stats. They are in very small pockets of the city. And they involve a very particular subset of citizens. (Basically, they're gang-on-gang crime for the most part.)
So, if a housewife reads an article about gross stats and doesn't want to move, that's understandable.
But the facts of the matter is that if she's looking to move to anywhere in about 90% of the Chattanooga area, and isn't planning to either buy/deal drugs or hang out at seedy bars at 2AM, she'll probably find the city to be an amazing place to live (except for all the West coast folks moving here and bringing their traffic with them.)
