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Location: Greenville or Jacksonville
Climate: Hard to say, but Louisville is probably the worst
Scenery: Greenville
Standard of Living: Jacksonville
College/Universities: Nashville, far and away (but none are that super)
Job Market: Nashville
Cost of Living: Greenville/Knoxville
Nightlife: Nashville
Architecture: Louisville
Music Scene: Nashville
Food scene: Jacksonville, I'd argue
Culture: Louisville
- Standard of Living / Quality of Life. All are pretty good but Jacksonville
- Colleges and Universities. Nashville
- Job Market Nashville
- Cost of Living. Louisville
- Nightlife. Louisville
- Architecture. Louisville
- Music Scene. I don't know
- Food scene. I don't know I've heard Jacksonville has some good sea food.
- Cultural Institutions and Performing Arts. Louisville
Your favorite of the five to live in? To visit? If I had to choose a place to live its Louisville. Place to visit would be Greenville because there is so much there that I've overlooked
I have been to all of these cities except Jacksonville. I have been to Florida several times though so I can sort of guess what it's all about.
These are my opinions:
- Location: Greenville
- Climate: Greenville
- Topography (Scenery): Greenville
- Standard of Living / Quality of Life: Greenville
- Colleges and Universities: Nashville/Greenville
- Job Market: Nashville
- Cost of Living: Knoxville
- Nightlife: Nashville
- Architecture: Louisville
- Music Scene: Nashville
- Food scene: Louisville
- Cultural Institutions and Performing Arts: Nashville
If I had to choose I would without a doubt settle down in Greenville. It's a great and beautiful city in a decent sized package.
If the Predators and it's fans moved to Greenville it would probably be the best city in America.
I'm surprised Knoxville doesn't get ranked any higher than what it does, given that it's a town over 100,000 and has a large major university there, and it's close proximity to the mountains. Seems to me like Knoxville would be among the fastest growing metro regions in the nation. It seems like it should at least be a big weekend destination city with big events nearly every weekend, not too much different than Austin. Does Knoxville not fully live up to its potential?
I like Louisville because it is underrated in many aspects. It has potential, but like Knoxville it is not seeing high population growth. The problem with Knoxville is that it is not very diverse in culture or population.
Last edited by JMT; 04-26-2018 at 11:20 AM..
Reason: "City tiers" is not part of this thread.
I'm surprised Knoxville doesn't get ranked any higher than what it does, given that it's a town over 100,000 and has a large major university there, and it's close proximity to the mountains. Seems to me like Knoxville would be among the fastest growing metro regions in the nation. It seems like it should at least be a big weekend destination city with big events nearly every weekend, not too much different than Austin. Does Knoxville not fully live up to its potential?
I guess having Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge right down the road doesn't help Knoxville much when it comes to tourism.
Perhaps it is just me but I find any city in the United States with the suffix "-ville" attached to the end of its name to be a dead giveaway that it is a Southern city. To me, no debate needed with those with regards to what region they are in.
For instance;
- Louisville (in the South)
- Greenville (in the South)
- Jacksonville (in the South)
- Knoxville (in the South)
- Nashville (in the South)
- Huntsville (in the South)
- Asheville (in the South)
- Fayetteville, Arkansas (in the South)
- Charlottesville (in the South)
Even Evansville, which is in the Midwestern state of Indiana is itself right on the border of the South. It probably has some well established suburbs across the Kentucky state line in the South. I guess in the case of Evansville, Indiana that the apple didn't fall that far from the tree after all.
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