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People in Nashville are not sitting around in bumper to bumper traffic taking hours to get to their destinations. This is a fallacy. Outside of rush hour people are getting to where they need to go in the general time needed. Even during evening rush hour cars are not just sitting idly unless at the exit/entry ramps. And that's any city that has a sizeable workforce.
People are sheep and repeat anything without thoughtful analysis.
If you say so. Rush hour in Nashville is pretty bad. I440/I24I/40 during rush hour was not much better than a lot of areas of the Atlanta metro area.
People in Nashville are not sitting around in bumper to bumper traffic taking hours to get to their destinations. This is a fallacy. Outside of rush hour people are getting to where they need to go in the general time needed. Even during evening rush hour cars are not just sitting idly unless at the exit/entry ramps. And that's any city that has a sizeable workforce.
People are sheep and repeat anything without thoughtful analysis.
Nashville’s traffic is pretty horrific given the size and scope of the city. Charlotte’s traffic, by comparison is far more tame; I’m sure Lynx has a lot to do with that. To be fair, Atlanta’s traffic is undoubtedly worse, but to say that Nashvillians aren’t backed up coming in from Brentwood, Antioch, Hendersonville etc. is flat out false. Getting in/out of Hillsboro, Green Hills area is no different than Perimeter.
Unless you're inside the 285 perimeter, regardless of all its amenities, Atlanta is absolutely hellish. Hopefully Nashville will avoid the mistakes that Atlanta made.
Atlanta does have horrible traffic both inside and outside the perimeter, but characterizing the area as "hellish" on that basis alone is a bit harsh. When visiting Nashville, I haven't seen much evidence they are following a different model for development and expect the area will have plenty of gridlock in its future. The downtown core would have a larger share of metro-wide activity in Nashville than Atlanta, however - which probably makes infrastructure planning a little more straightforward. Who knows if effective planning and execution will keep up with Nashville's growth, of course.
Regarding the original question, the two metro areas are in different size brackets and have different cultural balances, but I think they are fundamentally similar in being aspirational, sprawling Sunbelt places that are very open to newcomers. If one of the opportunities is clearly better suited to your goals and preferences than the other, I'd suggest going for it regardless of the location. Good luck.
Really, you can't go wrong with either. I'd probably give the slight edge to Atlanta. Just has more to do due to its size. Both are great, though.
Totally agree although I'd much rather live in Nashville. I prefer mid sized cities and its much more livable IMO.
Nashville cannot quite compare to ATL amenity wise though. It looks smaller and that's fine.
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