‘What Austin felt like 10 years ago’: Is Nashville the next hot spot in the Bay Area exodus?

SFGATE ^ | 12/15/2021 | Tessa McLean

[OldGoatCPO]

Yet despite the influx North Carolina has remained purple with a lot more blue base than red. The Triangle, Asheville and Mecklenburg County have a lot of Red, but still enough Blue in those areas to remain purple. Smaller cities throughout the state and along the Crystal Coast remain Conservative. The influx makes us seem bipolar, but our legislation's are deep blue, the Governor is Red but the very popular LT Governor is a black Conservative. There is an old adage about politics being local. Worse than what the Congressional backlash in 2022, look for more State Houses to go to GOP. That is even a bigger problem for the RATS.

[Mr.Unique]

I was in Nashville a few months ago. Broadway in Nashville = 6th Street in Austin

[Moorings]

I don't know. I think they will take Nashville down to a whole new level in idiocy.

They turned San Fran into a toilet - literally and figuratively speaking. Now they move to other areas with the same attitude and mind set- their failed ideology and politics. Then they will look down their noses at the locals in their new places, and bad mouth them. Because they are so smart and "cultured".

[HandBasketHell]

I have steadfastly avoided Nashville for 30 years. There were beggars everywhere in the parking lots of restaurants that came up to you as soon as you exited your vehicle. And that was in the 1990s. God only knows what it’s like now.

[Antoninus]

I have to laugh. I have colleagues who were born and raised in the Philly suburbs, who purposely moved into the city and proceed to lament the drugs, crime, and homelessness but continue to vote for the same political party that's been in charge for 70 years. These same people think that Austin is "awesome."

A huge segment of the US population under age 40 is suffering from cognitive dissonance.

[EastTexasTraveler]

They are the worst virus there is. They should not be allowed to leave the utopia they created.

[Brian Griffin]

Nashville and Austin have become very expensive.

[Old Yeller]

I was in Nashville a few months ago. Broadway in Nashville = 6th Street in Austin

I haven't been to Nashville since 2008, when my kid graduated from Vandy, but I would have figured West End would be like 6th street in Austin.

[MplsSteve]

I was in Nashville for a week back in ‘96. I used it as a central location while I visited Civil war sites and other historical sites.

I liked what I saw. I didn’t think it was that bad. The downtown area seemed OK. Don’t recall seeing many transients and bums.

[Texas resident]

Austin used to be a fairly normal city. Back in the 1980’s LOTS of folks from silicon valley started moving in driving real estate prices way up. The culture of Austin has changed for the worst since then.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

I believe Ben Shapiro moved his company there from LA recently.

[Blood of Tyrants]

I live near Nashville and the blue state immigrants are running up the price of housing like crazy. I’m counting on it in 2022 as we sell our house and move to a more rural area of the state.

[FrankRizzo890]

Born, raised, and lived in Nashville for over 30 years. I can tell you that just “driving around on Google Street view”, that it’s not the place that I knew. I’m from “West Nashville”, which was a redneck hotbed when I was young. Now? It’s all wokesters. The WW2 era big wooden houses that were built around my HS have all been town down and replaced with “tall ugly” houses. And as mentioned elsewhere in this thread, the rents are astronomical! My parents bought a 3 bedroom brick home in 1980 for $55k. NOW, you can’t get a CLOSET in someone else’s tall-ugly for $55k.

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

Please no. Stay home in the SF bay area. Nashville sucks. You don’t want to move there. Stay in SF.

[Guenevere]

Yeah ....and NC is suffering.

The liberal bent is felt in bigger towns like Asheville, Raleigh , etc....
...and last year a small mountain town that was going woke had their first
LBQ (whatever) parade.......with transvestites, etc

The liberals poison decent small, God fearing towns!

[Guenevere]

The Governor is liberal democrat...
....but the Lt. Governor is indeed black.....conservative.....2nd amendment awesome.

[toast]

Here in Minnesota, they say one of the only good things about the cold is “at least it keeps the riff-raff out”.
It’s hard to be homeless when it’s -20F.

[toast]

Here in Minnesota, they say one of the only good things about the cold is “at least it keeps the riff-raff out”.
It’s hard to be homeless when it’s -20F.

[nascarnation]

I’ve often said, when TSHTF and it becomes a LOT of work to keep warm in the winter, the Entitlement Army is going to move south

[motor_racer]

The cancer of “Wokeness” is metastasizing.