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As Nashville Rapidly Expands, Residents Worry the Metropolis Is Growing Too Fast
Wall Street Journal ^

Posted on 06/18/2018 1:16:38 PM PDT by RedMonqey

NASHVILLE— Kathleen Ervin moved here 12 years ago from the Northeast, drawn to the relaxed atmosphere, green parks and relatively low cost of living.

But in the past five years, her commute time from her 1950s ranch house in the Glendale neighborhood to her job about 12 miles away has tripled on some days to 45 minutes because of increased traffic. Developers are buying nearby properties, tearing them down and building “tall skinnies”—multistory homes geared toward wealthier home buyers.

“We hear all this talk about how Nashville doesn’t want to become Houston, Nashville doesn’t want to become Atlanta,” said the 54-year-old account manager at a merchant processor. “Who is preventing that from happening?”

(Excerpt) Read more at wsj.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; US: Tennessee
KEYWORDS: nashville; urbansprawl
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To: jazminerose

Concerned how?


61 posted on 06/26/2018 1:04:16 AM PDT by wardaddy (Hanged not hung.)
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To: bk1000

I live here

Nashville demographics are bad even as the black population shrinks because hipster millennials are streaming in

All of the surrounding counties are great though

Nashville is same as any other top fifty city


62 posted on 06/26/2018 1:05:56 AM PDT by wardaddy (Hanged not hung.)
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To: dfwgator

I detest so many “Country”stars lately....


63 posted on 06/26/2018 1:08:10 AM PDT by cherry
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To: dfwgator; Pelham; Lost Highway

There’s a little

Jamey Johnson

Some Chris Stapleton

Some of Miranda’s ballads

There’s others but as you know Nashville is copycat

Jason Aldean begat Florida Georgia line in time

I actually listen to Upchurch.....he’s vulgar and very southern and I am friendly with his Creeper crew

Pond Creek road deep in Cheatham county hollows

It’s good for country rap and rock and country hybrid

He takes BLM thugs head on and has a pro Trump song

He’s got a duet with Luke Combs who I like

He’s a good boy and now a millionaire....just bought s big deer camp to live on

What’s not to like?

Besides the cursing and his prolific pot smoking I guess..lol


64 posted on 06/26/2018 1:11:43 AM PDT by wardaddy (Hanged not hung.)
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To: DallasGal

I’ll take Cutbank Mt over most of the east...even Tenn....I used to live in upstate NY...I love the area...but the humidity anywhere east of the Missouri is just too much..the farther east or south you go the worse it gets...


65 posted on 06/26/2018 1:12:03 AM PDT by cherry
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To: RedMonqey; Pelham; Mr. Mojo; Yaelle

I was just in Los Angeles

Except for the various Hills and Oaks which are majority whites , it’s a white minority town

Just looking around seems like Orientals have the edge

We had a game called “I see the blonde first” had to buy coffee at Alcove coffee and bakery on Hillhurst in Los Feliz.....girl watching sans pareil

If you like Armenians then Glendale is your nirvana....they are. But abrupt for my taste


66 posted on 06/26/2018 1:23:05 AM PDT by wardaddy (Hanged not hung.)
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To: Drew68

Colorado was great in the 60s

I had family in Santa Fe and dad loved to drive up through Durango to Montrose to Grand Junction to Aspen and over the two lane pass to Denver and back down through

Left coast people moved in and the Latino wave

Al lean izquierda


67 posted on 06/26/2018 1:57:18 AM PDT by wardaddy (Hanged not hung.)
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To: RedMonqey; Pelham; Yaelle

Ladies of the Canyon....
I think Joni wrote that song about Honolulu while living in Laurel Canyon which I’m wagering was more bucolic and less crowded back then

There was a movie too with Frances McDormand and an almost neekid and lovely very young Kate Beckinsdale
And Christian Bale and Natasha McLehone

Speaking of Natasha the movie was Californication like


68 posted on 06/26/2018 2:10:32 AM PDT by wardaddy (Hanged not hung.)
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To: DallasGal

I’m in Dallas tonight.. after driving from Santa Fe and yes we drove thru Fort Worth

I liked Dallas circa 1980

When Greenville ave was king

And all those apartments at Greenville and Park Lane were white kids starting out in Bid D

And the girls were everywhere

When lower McKinney was just going homo and Deep Ellum was what?

Club Tanga on lower Greenville.

The night Stevie did his first showcase

I love Texas.....besides wifey the two most important gals in my life were here

Abilene and West Houston

My goddaughter is in Silsbee area

If I’ve told you this before just ignore me I’m old


69 posted on 06/26/2018 2:17:17 AM PDT by wardaddy (Hanged not hung.)
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To: wardaddy

Late 80s early 90s I spent a lot of time on Lower Greenville and Lovers Lane. One of my favorite clubs was there and I’d dance the night away. West End used to be a hot spot as well. Oh the stories I could tell.

You wouldn’t catch me there now. It’s declined and I’m much older :)

I’m Texan through and through, but for the last few years, have wanted to move somewhere cooler in temps with mountains.


70 posted on 06/26/2018 7:16:45 AM PDT by DallasGal (When your honor, integrity and trustworthiness are gone, you are nothing.)
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To: wardaddy

Overall, Latinos are the top ethnicity, but of course people live in pockets. I am in the unique situation of coming back to the exact neighborhood, well, the exact house, where I grew up. This particular neighborhood was 90% white as I grew up, 70% liberal Jews. Now it is majority mother language Armenian, Farsi, and Hebrew. The Persians also are mostly Jewish here. When we trick or treated, I only heard 25% English speakers. They are buying up $2 mil homes and renovating them more fancy. They are trying to avoid the Persian Palaces of the 90s but still enlarging these things.

Lol @ spot the blonde. There are definitely pockets of LA where that would take a lot longer.


71 posted on 06/26/2018 8:28:15 AM PDT by Yaelle
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To: wardaddy

I went and looked at some houses in Laurel Canyon not too long ago and said Nope. No cell reception and so tiny. Hell, I couldn’t even use gps to find addresses up there. If I want hills it has to be Calabasas Malibu way...


72 posted on 06/26/2018 9:23:16 AM PDT by Yaelle
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To: fieldmarshaldj

True

Three yankee libs in a row


73 posted on 06/26/2018 10:12:02 AM PDT by wardaddy (Hanged not hung.)
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To: wardaddy

Fulton and Boner were lefties, too. All rotten. I don’t care where they come from, I care what their agenda is.


74 posted on 06/26/2018 7:10:35 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj ("It's Slappin' Time !")
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