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Nashville is bigger and has more amenities by a long shot. Memphis however feels more urban from my experience. These are two very different cities that might as well be in two separate states.
I'm not really sure what Easy Way is, but Wild Oats closed several years ago. We now have Whole Foods, Trader Joes, Fresh Market and the Turnip Truck as our major organic grocers. Publix and Kroger also heavily dominate the market here too. Many of the Publix are brand new and nearly all of the Nashville area Krogers have been significantly expanded and remodeled. Someone on another forum also mentioned Earthfare will enter the market very soon...stay tuned.
Easy Way is a produce store. Easily identified by its orange appearance of the buildings. I'm certain that there was a Whole Foods when I lived there. Good on Memphis for obtaining a Trader Joe's, The Fresh Market, and The Turnip Truck. One can never have enough organic grocers. I knew about Kroger. I was disappointed to learn that Schnucks had been beaten out. Publix is cool. However, Schnucks is billy bad as! Good on Memphis!
To be honest, as there is more investment into Nashville's Urban Core and inner city neighborhoods, I think it will start feeling a little bigger. A lot of black families might have to be displaced for this to happen, but that is why there is Antioch and Madison haha.
Easy Way is a produce store. Easily identified by its orange appearance of the buildings. I'm certain that there was a Whole Foods when I lived there. Good on Memphis for obtaining a Trader Joe's, The Fresh Market, and The Turnip Truck. One can never have enough organic grocers. I knew about Kroger. I was disappointed to learn that Schnucks had been beaten out. Publix is cool. However, Schnucks is billy bad as! Good on Memphis!
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Memphis feels more urban, but Nashville feels larger and more spread out. You see many big city overpasseswider interstates and taller buildings even out in the suburbs, Memphis has nothing like this. However, once you come into dowtown, Memphis feels like a real city. There is a chunky cluster of density that surrounds you (that feeling that you don't know where you are because you are surrounded on all sides). Nashville doesn't have that quite yet, there are many gaps and parking lots downtown that make it much easier to navigate. Where Nashville shines is its growing skyline. Several tall office and residential buildings are either planned or under construction (the Gulch neighborhood (first all green neighborhood in the southeast). Memphis hasn't built a new tower in over twenty years. Both cities have high crime, but Memphis much much more. It's not really fair to compare Memphis to Nashville because Nashville' economy is bigger, better, and more diversified.
Well actually Memphis tallest building is located outside of downtown in East Memphis (where Memphis second skyline is located) with many office buildings stretching to the suburbs.
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The picture doesn't capture the full but its a glimpse. The dirt patch on the middle right of the picture, there's another office tower being built for International Paper HQ. Also DT Memphis is visible in the distance.
Well actually Memphis tallest building is located outside of downtown in East Memphis (where Memphis second skyline is located) with many office buildings stretching to the suburbs.
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The picture doesn't capture the full but its a glimpse. The dirt patch on the middle right of the picture, there's another office tower being built for International Paper HQ. Also DT Memphis is visible in the distance.
Well to date, as of November 2017, Nashville by far is much bigger than Memphis as a city and metro area. Nashville metro area is closing in on 2 million people in a few years, while Memphis remains near 1.4 million. Nashville is among the fastest growing cities in the nation, while Memphis stagnated. Nashville has grown so fast, in the last ten years that it's urban core now looks bigger than Memphis. Downtown Nashville is booming with construction projects, while hardly nothing going on in Memphis downtown. Nashville looks more to Atlanta, Charlotte, and Dallas as ideal rival cities, than Memphis and Nashville is going through the same type of growth the other named cities have gone through. In all measures Nashville is outpacing Memphis, even in airport growth. In Memphis you don't see no traffic until you enter within the city limits or around the perimeter. In Nashville the freeway mimics Atlanta. Traffic on the interstates can back up over 30 miles. So the urban feeling in Nashville looks and feels bigger than Memphis, because its a half million more people than Memphis area.
One thing I've noticed here on City Data for years is that most people on here too many times don't make the distinction between city and metro area. In this case, in terms of population, Memphis is a bigger city and Nashville is a bigger metro area.
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