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Nashville has to be on this list. Music City, home to 24 institutions of higher education, headquarters to several denominations (some call it the Protestant Vatican), state capitol, home to 2 major league sports teams and all in a metro area that did not top 1 million until the 1990s, still only 1.5 million as of the last census.
-Major research university
-Several federal research labs
-Many high tech start ups
-Many outdoor recreational companies
-Outdoor publications and writers
-Leader in health food market
-Very early adoptor/innovator of: open space, smoking bans, solar energy etc
-Population 100,000
Id say Grand Rapids Michigan acts much more like a bigger metro than its actual population. Metro GR- Wyoming 775,000 CSA 1,325,000.
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