What city is most comparable to Nashville? (compared, America, bigger)
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It is not an Atlanta wannabe (there's another city that obviously is). Austinites do not want to be Dallas or (worse) Houston.
It is not like any other city that (used to be) are its peers. As it's moved into the next tier up. Money is moving to both cities.
It is the hub of its region. Austin recently passed San Antonio as the hub of Hill Country. Austin is far more appealing than its closest neighbors. Nashville is even more appealing than that.
Technology companies are flocking to both.
The airports are expanding rapidly in both.
They are state capitals and are the current leading white-collar job magnets for their states.
They both have a wealthy Williamson County adjacent to it.
They both still have something of a small-town mentality.
They're both education hubs for their states. Nashvlle with 75,000 students. Austin with nearly 78,000.
Both cities are huge draws for the under-30 demographic.
Both cities mix their regional cultural appeal with the modern cultural trends.
And that is just off the top of my head.
I say Austin too but man, the Austitude really shined bright here.
Not sure what you mean here. I myself have never gotten excited about Nashville because I’ve felt that it was a bit contrived. But I’m not sure that I’d agree that “it’s over”. It does kind of seem as if your sentiments on this one are coming from a bit of sour grapes. Can you expound?
Depends on what you like in a city. If you like unique personality, the corporate takeover of places like you see now in Nashville is a death knell. I don't understand how anyone could think otherwise? It's just a very sterile, and as you said, contrived place that is now succumbing to corporations. If you like new sprawl built up to house new transplants to work white collar jobs, well, you might enjoy it.
Depends on what you like in a city. If you like unique personality, the corporate takeover of places like you see now in Nashville is a death knell. I don't understand how anyone could think otherwise?
I’ve yet to witness any of these places that have had massive corporate growth having a death knell. They all seem to be thriving and proliferating, even if the character of the built environment is more fabricated than organic.
I’ve yet to witness any of these places that have had massive corporate growth having a death knell. They all seem to be thriving and proliferating, even if the character of the built environment is more fabricated than organic.
Again, as I said, it depends on what you enjoy about a city. I do not enjoy bland, white collar, yuppie places. I guess you can say it is "thriving" but I do not. Give me Baltimore over DC, St Paul over Minneapolis, Memphis over Nashville etc.
Nashville may have some similarity to Austin in terms of its lively downtown scene, but I don't think the metro areas are fundamentally all that similar. Austin has a more specialized economy with its focus on technology, education and state government, and very little of any "blue collar" presence in manufacturing or warehousing. It is also less regionally dominant, given the proximity to Texas' other major cities.
Nashville is more distanced from other large urban centers, and has a more well rounded economy that better resembles the nation as a whole. What the Census Bureau calls the "East South Central" states (KY, TN, AL, MS) is generally not keeping up with the growth of other parts of the Sunbelt. Nashville is the largest exception to that rule, and clearly has a dynamic not found for at least 200 miles in any direction (aside from possibly Huntsville, which is much a smaller place).
I've voted for Charlotte by process of elimination, as it is another high growth upper South metro area that is not vastly larger than Nashville and has a similarly diverse economy and regional capital dynamic. Raleigh, like Austin, is too overwhelmingly "specialized" as a top tier tech center to match well. Atlanta and Denver are much larger, while Cincinnati is the one area on this list that attracts few outsiders and is on a slow growth track.
Raleigh, like Austin, is too overwhelmingly "specialized" as a top tier tech center to match well.
Raleigh/Durham is actually pivoting towards biomedical and pharma tech at the moment. Billions in development just last year alone. Nashville leadership would be smart to get some of that pharma action as well especially with the amount of universities in the region. Does Nashville have an innovation hub or center tied to a university?
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