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Nashville Gets Mixed Reviews From People Who Don’t Live Here

23 May 2008 | 12:00 pm
Author: Morgan Levy

Our fair city has been making headlines this week, as everyone from Forbes to Newsweek have started ranking various aspects of cities, and we’ve come out on top more often than not. Our very own Nashville International Airport (BNA) ranked 6th in its size class for customer satisfaction, and Forbes rated Nashville 18 out of 25 Best United States Cities for Jobs. We also had 2 Metro high schools ranked in Newsweek’s Top 25 Public High Schools in the nation, and we’re pretty proud.

Contrast that with our neighbors in Clarksville receiving the honor of being the #1 Worst Place to Raise a Family (we didn’t make the top 100, either) and being ranked the Least Heart-Friendly City for women in America and we’re not real sure what to think.

We guess the bigger question is: Do we really care? Let us know in the comments what you think about all these surveys, and if they really are indicative of the quality of living in Nashville.

Photo of the Nashville International Airport by SWVirginiaDeity.

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  • Very cool picture.
  • Joyce - I tend to agree. But I'm neither raising a family nor battling heart disease, and tend to appreciate the simpler things in life, which I guess is a big part of any person's quality of living. And I'm really jealous of the kayaking trip :)

    Matt - An interesting perspective. I travel a lot, and haven't found Nashville's homeless population to be at all intrusive when compared to many other metropolitan cities. That's from a city dweller's perspective, though - many tourists may not think the same way.
  • This city is wonderful. It just needs serious work.

    As a small business owner that used to have a shop downtown I can clearly state that one of the biggest problems in Nashville is the homeless.

    They drive business away, annoy the hell out of you, and make our city look bad.

    Talk to anyone who comes here to visit downtown and one of their first negative experiences is being hassled by the homeless.

    The bigger problem stems from metro being unwilling to deal with them. I don't care how.
  • Joyce
    I just came in after spending this glorious morning sitting on the porch drinking my coffee and reading the Tennessean. Later I'm going hiking in Warner Park, and over the weekend I'll be kayaking the Harpeth. I don't care what anyone who doesn't live here has to say!
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