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Originally Posted by glowrock
Tennessee also has an atrociously high state sales tax, really terrible overall infrastructure, and a major city which has an overall crime and murder rate far above Chicago (Memphis). It also, outside of Nashville, really, is quite poor and rural (excepting Memphis and Nashville). One advantage it has is massive federal funding in terms of both Oak Ridge National Laboratory as well as of course legacy TVA projects and their continual funding.
Aaron (Glowrock)
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I totally agree with you. Family friends just moved to outside Nashville from the northwest suburbs and they were shocked to see how many people were total hillbillies even in the suburbs of Nashville. Tennessee is the south through and through. It has terrible schools, high crime in many parts, and rampant rural poverty. It's doing very little right. Nashville is doing a good job, but the rest of the state? Everyone here claiming that we should put Tennessee on a pedestal needs to get off their high horse.