Adultery Relocation Saga Part XXII: OK, so we've decided on Tennessee. But

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Residents should definitely weigh in but I wanna hear from travelers too. Obviously, Nashville is "cooler," but Knoxville is cheaper, and thats important. What I need to know is, is the differene negligable? Is it THAT big a difference in rent, gas prices, etc?

Also - about how many miles are they apart?

"hip" spots, cool stores, good bars, etc have no bearing on this decision.

Thanks in advance!

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Thursday, 17 June 2004 02:02 (twenty-two years ago)

roxymuzak loves knoxville, apparently.

i don't know anything about nashville that you don't know already.

― Ian c=====8 (orion), Thursday, 17 June 2004 02:54 (twenty-two years ago)

could you put it to an ILE vote?

― Sym (shmuel), Thursday, 17 June 2004 02:59 (twenty-two years ago)

and promise to abide by our decision?

― Sym (shmuel), Thursday, 17 June 2004 02:59 (twenty-two years ago)

i almost got into a bar fight in nashville ten days ago!

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Thursday, 17 June 2004 03:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Sym- pretty much dude. I'm pretty impressionable!

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Thursday, 17 June 2004 03:31 (twenty-two years ago)

mookie - was David Berman involved? I saw him in a bar "fight" in Louisville once. It was funny.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 17 June 2004 03:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Did he kick ass?

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Thursday, 17 June 2004 03:35 (twenty-two years ago)

no, he managed to swing and miss Pau7 Curry, a Louisvile rock crit, who is like 6'6" and big. Couldn't stop laughing after I saw that.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 17 June 2004 03:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Hey if you live in Nashville you can hang out with Nashville Dave! You get along good with him Rodger..

― brg30 (brg30), Thursday, 17 June 2004 04:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Stence I never saw David get into any brawls with the lovely ladies here in Northampton.

― brg30 (brg30), Thursday, 17 June 2004 04:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Actually, I was in touch with Nashville Dave for a bit! He was really helpful. I owe him a few drinks, for sure.

Is this Dave Cloud fellow I hear about as good as I've been told?

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Thursday, 17 June 2004 04:15 (twenty-two years ago)

mookie - was David Berman involved?

i wish he had been--the guy my drunk friend was mouthing off to was about 6'4" 300 lbs. maybe it was pau1 curry!

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Thursday, 17 June 2004 04:24 (twenty-two years ago)

if it is, Pau1's gained some weight and moved.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 17 June 2004 04:25 (twenty-two years ago)

I vote for Knoxville but I've never been to Nashville so wtf do i know?

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 17 June 2004 05:40 (twenty-two years ago)

you don't know Nashville.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 17 June 2004 05:41 (twenty-two years ago)

but I asked what the fuck I DID know.

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 17 June 2004 05:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh man...I'm hopelessly biased on this because I lived in Knoxville for years and ran a paper there and loved it and plan to probably return someday, whereas my experience with Nashville was limited to weekend trips. It really depends what you're looking for, they're completely different places. The culture of East Tennessee is still really Southern Appalachia, where Nashville is more glitzy New South. Nashville is more of an actual city, there's obviously more going on there in a lot of respects. It's also, on the other hand, more corporate. For all the Opry stuff, it's really kind of a button-down town. Knoxville is...a weird place. People tend to either love it or hate it. It's unpredictable and kinda rough around the edges -- not in a sense of being dangerous or anything, just a little unpolished. Like, you can be in a prim lawns-and-porches neighborhood one minute and then you go around a bend and you're smack in the heart of hillbilly country.

There's also more going on in Knoxville than tends to meet the eye. The music scene is small but it keeps on kicking. Every time someplace closes down, something else pops up: a punk-rock coffee shop, an indie vinyl record store, etc. You have to scratch around a little to find the interesting stuff, but once you kind of tap into the real Knoxvilleness of Knoxville -- underneath the Baptist, football-rooting, SUV-mad exterior, which constitutes the official majority culture there -- it just gets better and better. Plus, of course, it's close to all those mountains. And Ashville's just a 2-hour drive for weekend getaways (gorgeous drive too, right through the Smokies).

I'd take Knoxville over Nashville in a heartbeat. So would my wife, who's lived in both.

― spittle (spittle), Thursday, 17 June 2004 15:26 (twenty-two years ago)

(also, if you visit Knoxville, avoid anything west of Bearden Hill -- it's just a huge morass of undifferentiated suburbia. almost all of the best things about the city are in the city proper, even though most of the growth is in the 'burbs.)

― spittle (spittle), Thursday, 17 June 2004 15:28 (twenty-two years ago)

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Adultery Relocation Saga Part XXII: OK, so we've decided on Tennessee. But - Nashville or Knoxville??