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Overall, I'd say New Orleans is better architecture wise, culturally, shopping, nightlife, etc. Both cities have good music to them, but New Orleans is just generally a bigger city with more things to do.
Architecture: New Orleans
Culture: New Orleans
Education: Nashville
Economy: Nashville
Entertainment: Toss up
Food: New Orleans
Healthcare: Nashville, NO is coming up though
Liveability: Nashville
Location: Nashville
Music: I choose New Orleans but honestly a toss up
National importance: New Orleans
Nightlife: New Orleans
Regional importance: I think New Orleans because it doesn't have any large city close by it and New Orleans has a huge sphere of influence for a city it's size. Can't help but think Nashville is overshadowed by Atlanta and is less influential due to cities like Louisville, Birmingham, and Memphis being so close.
Shopping: I have no idea.
Sports: New Orleans only because of the location of the dome. Otherwise it's a toss up, large SEC schools close by, and two professional teams in each city.
Transportation: New Orleans? I would think the streetcar lines serve a larger population, urban at that.
Urban neighborhoods: New Orleans
Potential: IMO, New Orleans
Diversity: New Orleans seems slightly more diverse per Wikipedia
Overall: New Orleans-10 Nashville-5
Note: Didn't realize Nashville was only 1.5m, thought it was at least 1.8m.
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Architecture: New Orleans
Culture: New Orleans
Education: Nashville
Economy: Nashville
Entertainment: Toss up
Food: New Orleans
Healthcare: Nashville, NO is coming up though
Liveability: Nashville
Location: Nashville
Music: I choose New Orleans but honestly a toss up
National importance: New Orleans
Nightlife: New Orleans
Regional importance: I think New Orleans because it doesn't have any large city close by it and New Orleans has a huge sphere of influence for a city it's size. Can't help but think Nashville is overshadowed by Atlanta and is less influential due to cities like Louisville, Birmingham, and Memphis being so close.
Shopping: I have no idea.
Sports: New Orleans only because of the location of the dome. Otherwise it's a toss up, large SEC schools close by, and two professional teams in each city.
Transportation: New Orleans? I would think the streetcar lines serve a larger population, urban at that.
Urban neighborhoods: New Orleans
Potential: IMO, New Orleans
Diversity: New Orleans seems slightly more diverse per Wikipedia
Overall: New Orleans-10 Nashville-5
I agree with most of this. Without checking, I think Nashville probably wins on shopping. I'd also give Nashville the edge in potential because it's been fulfilling its potential for a while now, whereas New Orleans really only turned the corner after Katrina.
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Note: Didn't realize Nashville was only 1.5m, thought it was at least 1.8m.
I agree with most of this. Without checking, I think Nashville probably wins on shopping. I'd also give Nashville the edge in potential because it's been fulfilling its potential for a while now, whereas New Orleans really only turned the corner after Katrina.
Metro Nashville has 1.7 million people.
I'd agree on shopping too. I just think New Orleans is in a better geographic area to be the largest and most important city within a much larger area than Nashville. I feel it's economy has a larger impact on the nation, not in GDP, but if New Orleans goes under again, it would have a larger impact on the lives of Americans than Nashville. What New Orleans is doing now is astonishing for any city that has it's kind of history. I'm certainly not saying New Orleans has more potential, just I think it's in a much better region and time in it's history.
The CSA puts Nashville at just under 1.7m, MSA at 1.58m, that's what Wiki says.
Sports: New Orleans only because of the location of the dome. Otherwise it's a toss up, large SEC schools close by, and two professional teams in each city.
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Nashville isn't close to an SEC school; an SEC school (Vanderbilt) is in Nashville, just a few blocks from downtown. In addition, there are three other NCAA Division 1 schools in Nashville (Belmont, Lipscomb, and Tennessee State) and MTSU, another FBS school, in the MSA.
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I'd agree on shopping too. I just think New Orleans is in a better geographic area to be the largest and most important city within a much larger area than Nashville. I feel it's economy has a larger impact on the nation, not in GDP, but if New Orleans goes under again, it would have a larger impact on the lives of Americans than Nashville. What New Orleans is doing now is astonishing for any city that has it's kind of history. I'm certainly not saying New Orleans has more potential, just I think it's in a much better region and time in it's history.
I agree.
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The CSA puts Nashville at just under 1.7m, MSA at 1.58m, that's what Wiki says.
Nashville isn't close to an SEC school; an SEC school (Vanderbilt) is in Nashville, just a few blocks from downtown. In addition, there are three other NCAA Division 1 schools in Nashville (Belmont, Lipscomb, and Tennessee State) and MTSU, another FBS school, in the MSA.
Forgot about Vanderbilt.
I was just thinking of UT.
Tulane (in the city), Nicholls State (hour away), Southern U (hour away), U of L (2ish hours away), Southeastern Louisiana (metro), and UNO (city) are all Division 1. Let's not act like 1 extra school in the metro is that much of a difference. Our teams might be better too. UL meets Tulane in the New Orleans bowl.
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