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There's a few good bands from Nashville. Diarrhea Planet, JEFF the brotherhood.

But yeah. It's not that great of a music town to be honest. Unless, you like the corporate stuff.

The rural Tennessee isn't really the part you should worry about. It's suburban Tennessee. The suburb culture throughout the state is basically white supremacist.

I agree on a lot of your points. However, I would say Memphis does have a lot to do if you know where to look.

Nashville might be solid blue, but the politics of the state is ran by it's suburbs. The worst republicans imaginable live in Franklin and Murfreesboro. And you can not avoid them if you live and work in Nashville. To make matters worst, the corporate democrats in Nashville just rubber stamp everything the republican's do as long as it benefits Nashville. I managed to last two years in Nashville. The culture is sick.

No New Orleans, Detroit, or Memphis.

I really wished they considered a majority African American community that has the capacity to grow. This is just going to increase inequality. Sad really.

Let's hope for Atlanta.

We have issues with people dredging sand in Memphis on our Wolf river. Awful stuff. The philanthropic community has been working on buying up most of the land next through a conservancy.

Memphis is built on a thin layer of clay on top of sand. Which is actually great, we have one of the largest freshwater aquifers in the country under us. The only problem, we don't know all the locations that the aquifer gets refilled. :(

We should move more research to lower cost cities like Memphis or Detroit that have affordable housing. In addition, we need to prioritize funding to our middle tier Universities.

I don't understand how people expect us to subsides wages in high cost cities. It's not the only problem, but we do have a prestige issue.

Except the federal government pumps money into those AAU universities in research grants, therefore they are more prestigious and have better job prospects after you graduate.

The system is stupid. But it won't change. You won't see the public university in Memphis or Baltimore get more money federal money than a school like Stanford.

The federal government should pay Amazon to open an HQ in either Memphis, or New Orleans.

Or let's say any metro area over 30% African American and over 1 million people.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._metropolitan_area...

The major issue is that typically states ignore the needs of critical infrastructure in those cities like Tier One Carnegie Classification Universities.

Memphis

The health issues are a serious problem. I ended up in the hospital with stress induced gastritis one semester. I was lucky I dropped the course, for a W, before the deadline.

This program is no joke, especially if you don't avoid certain courses. If I had one piece of advice for anyone in the program, you should trust the crowd source student reviews of the courses.

GT is aware of this thread, and emailed all the students in the program about it about an hour ago.

I would assume it is him. He's very active on the unofficial Google Plus group for the program.

Yes. A top tier college will get you out in front of more employers. I did my undergrad at a lower tier state commuter school, and I got my master's at a top 10 school in CS. It's night and day difference in how recruiters will treat you.

It hurts on all levels of the income spectrum, from lower to upper middle class. It's real bad in Tennessee where our flagship public school is 389.9 miles away from what was our biggest city in Memphis.

I am shifting in the opinion that we need to start funneling more money in to our public urban commuter schools. Wayne State, University of Memphis, Towson University, University of Cincinnati, etc... Honestly, The amount of public money that goes to private universities in this country is disgusting. Also the effects of Economic Agglomeration are well known.

The Mother Jones case is completely different. Florida has anti-SLAPP laws, Idaho doesn't.

Maybe Florida anti-SLAPP laws aren't good enough, I don't know. But it's a tough balance. Bollea's case was determine by a judge to have enough merit to take to court.

Bollea will probably lose on appeal. But he definitely has the right to his day in court.

I'll be honest. It's hard for me to hate on Vancouver too much as I truly think Urban planning is difficult.

I think people should move to lower costs cities if the situation makes sense for them. Vancouver might be at a disadvantage due to Brain Drain at this specific moment in time, but I believe there's an argument to be made that Vancouver has significantly been a beneficiary of Brain Drain from other countries in the past.

As the USA and Canada continues to transition to a knowledge based economy, our cities should emulate what made Vancouver a economic powerhouse, which is a world class research university, great public transportation, and effective immigration programs. Now, there are things you can't emulate like great weather or prestige, but we can make more cities like San Francisco or Vancouver.