Posted on 12/16/2021 10:49:44 AM PST by Bonemaker
Owning a home had never been something Kristopher Esqueda even thought about. He was a successful restaurateur in San Francisco, helping to open many popular restaurants such as Saison and Sons and Daughters, and every month he turned in a $3,500 rent check for a two-bedroom apartment in the Tenderloin. One day after visiting a friend in Nashville who had moved there from the Bay Area, Esqueda left his apartment, stepping over hypodermic needles and feces on his way to work and started to wonder whether his time in the city was up.
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I was in Nashville a few months ago. Broadway in Nashville = 6th Street in Austin
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".
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.
They are the worst virus there is. They should not be allowed to leave the utopia they created.
Nashville and Austin have become very expensive.
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.
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.
I believe Ben Shapiro moved his company there from LA recently.
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.
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.
Please no. Stay home in the SF bay area. Nashville sucks. You don’t want to move there. Stay in SF.
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!
The Governor is liberal democrat...
....but the Lt. Governor is indeed black.....conservative.....2nd amendment awesome.
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.
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.
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
The cancer of “Wokeness” is metastasizing.
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