What don't you like about Nashville? (Columbia: public schools, living, prices)

[Jimrob1]

Originally Posted by rossc

About the only thing I don't like is that the entire greater Nashville is not very bike/pedestrian friendly. The people do not seem to be health conscious at all. We just try to associate ourselves with the right people. There are health clubs, bike clubs, hiking clubs, etc. We're not health fanatics, we just have a desire to live past the age of 60. Other than that, it's nice a place to live.

This bothers me about the south in general as a retirement locale. I am pushing 60 and I don't want to go from the house to the car everytime I want to go out. I want parks and trails and decent health clubs around. I want people around that are health conscious also. I don't get this adversity to exercise with so much of the south. I have actually met people in NC that will drive to the convience store barely a block from their house. I see it in Oregon also, just not as much with the younger people as I have seen in the southern states.

[Steve_TN]

Originally Posted by Jimrob1

This bothers me about the south in general as a retirement locale. I am pushing 60 and I don't want to go from the house to the car everytime I want to go out. I want parks and trails and decent health clubs around. I want people around that are health conscious also. I don't get this adversity to exercise with so much of the south. I have actually met people in NC that will drive to the convience store barely a block from their house. I see it in Oregon also, just not as much with the younger people as I have seen in the southern states.

But the Nashville metro area has plenty of parks with trails and health clubs.

[Tunky]

Originally Posted by BP300

The drivers.

In my humble opinion, Nashville has the worst drivers that I have ever seen. People here love to tailgate, and it is the reason why you see so many 3-4 car pile-ups. I firmly believe that government also needs to pass a law requiring drivers to use head sets, because everyone during rush hour loves to use their cell phone.

Have you been to Boston?

[Jimrob1]

Originally Posted by Steve_TN

But the Nashville metro area has plenty of parks with trails and health clubs.

Thats good to know, and thanks.

[Diane Giam]

Originally Posted by gabbyknashville

I have yet to figure out why Nashville bike riders are so bitter. It has to do with the fact that Nashville is sprawling and we are not used to sharing the road with bike riders. It is not personal, and often it is a regional thing. For example, around Vanderbilt and Belmont, there are great sidewalks and bike paths so you know to be aware. People in this area are more active and very aware of their environment and tend to be more green friendly. We will eventually get with the program but please do not make us out to all be white trash who smoke and eat fast food.

Furthermore, zip code 37205 in Nashville is listed in Forbes magazine as being in the top ten wealthiest areas of the country. The original wealth in Nashville was in east Nashville where there remains beautiful old homes that are being remodelled. Unfortunately, east Nashville became extremely rundown and it will take awhile to bring it back around.

To answer the original question, the only things I do not like about Nashville is that we do not have a beach. Otherwise you will find great diversity since 90% of Nashvillians are transplants.

Good Luck

Well, we have sort of a Beach at Prist Lake. The water park there has a Beach-----http://www.nashvilleshores.com/

Diane G

[Steve_TN]

Originally Posted by Diane Giam

Well, we have sort of a Beach at Prist Lake. The water park there has a Beach-----http://www.nashvilleshores.com/

Diane G

"sort of a beach"......LOL Diane...I LOVE IT!!!

[qwerbilzak]

I can't tell y'all how amusing I find it that some of you object to Nashville drivers. I just giggle, having lived in Boston for 10 years, where driving is a serious combat sport. Nashvillians have NO IDEA what true bad drivers are.

Here, when you want to go into a lane, you put on your signal, and ...WHAT?...he's letting me in!!

In Boston, you have to look the other way and pretend you have no interest in changing lanes, and then at the last minute, turn hard into the lane you want to be in, because if you put on your signal, the drivers will try hard to close up the space before you can get in there. No joke.

[gabbyknashville]

Originally Posted by qwerbilzak

I can't tell y'all how amusing I find it that some of you object to Nashville drivers. I just giggle, having lived in Boston for 10 years, where driving is a serious combat sport. Nashvillians have NO IDEA what true bad drivers are.

Here, when you want to go into a lane, you put on your signal, and ...WHAT?...he's letting me in!!

In Boston, you have to look the other way and pretend you have no interest in changing lanes, and then at the last minute, turn hard into the lane you want to be in, because if you put on your signal, the drivers will try hard to close up the space before you can get in there. No joke.

I wondered where that guy was from who wouldn't let me merge the other day.

[RS-1080]

Originally Posted by BP300

The drivers.

In my humble opinion, Nashville has the worst drivers that I have ever seen. People here love to tailgate, and it is the reason why you see so many 3-4 car pile-ups. I firmly believe that government also needs to pass a law requiring drivers to use head sets, because everyone during rush hour loves to use their cell phone.

But that would mean the ''Law Officers'' would have to stop talking on their cellphones while cruising as well. State troopers talk to family and friends while driving around patrolling, city cops do it also as well as county deputies. See it all the time, and know several cops personaly and am kin to a few of them. I know of one county deputy in a certain county thats never written a seatbelt citation as he says thats a choice that a person should be allowed to decide for themself. It goes both ways, seen folks live through crashes that if a seatbelt had been used, objects that came through the front glass would took their head off if strapped upright in the seat.Seatbelt cut one person in half when her car was torn apart and seatbelt held her back as the seat went with the car.Seen two people die from buring up that coulda been just fine if not for being burnt up, one was a kid in a truck that nobody had a knife to cut the belt off as the truck was burning and belt was in a bind and wouldn't release to get the ''child'' out. Other was a lady in a mini van that rolled over,but didn't hurt her other than she couldn't get out of her seatbelt and burned alive. I was young then, that stuck in my head. My brother had a crash at 16, rolled his 74 Duster twice after skidding off a wet hwy landing in a creek below, he walked away from it but the top was smashed clear down to the bottom of the drivers seat where the belt woulda had him strapped upright.Good thing he didn't have his seatbelt on that time and was tossed into the passenger side floor.Seen many live through seatbelts, and seen a few that seatbelts cost them their life.Another brother of mine is lucky to be alive also after hitting a deer in his patroll car at hwy speed and the airbag deployed.Needless to say that caused a wreck totaling a car after it left the roadway that would not have happen if the airbag had not deployed causing him to lose controll.It's a trade off, head on it'll help, but hitting a deer, your odds are better if the airbag is turned off or you don't have one.Cellphones? I agree, but feel cops should put them away to if they expect to write anyone up for doing the same. I drive a stick and have no desire to try to talk and shift gears, but you'll see others lift a leg to hold the wheel while they hold a phone to their head and shift gears to. I was rear ended once in the 90's when a cop in front of me stopped on a two lane with no shoulder or turning lane to make a left turn at a home on hwy 70, the cop stopped to wait on traffic to pass by to make the left turn and as I sat waiting a girl drove under my car. She was painting her lips in the rear veiw mirror on her way to work and didn't notice we had stopped. Never knew why folks don't get ready for work before they leave home,, I aways did. Dunno whats so important that can't wait a few minutes to use a phone either but folks talk their lives away while driving.

[gabbyknashville]

Wow...don't know what to say about all that...tragic