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Nashville Ranked High in "Best place to start a business"

Memphis was #7 according to the article. Not bad.

The state of TN has invested a shitload of money in Nashville to make it what it is today. It'll be the size of Atlanta in 10-15 years.

Memphis ranked #7
Chattanooga #4
Nashville #20

What's Nashville going to do about being 13 spots lower than Memphis?

Memphis will supply the dope?

I am surprised Nashville is lower than Memphis or Chattanooga, since Nashville gets all the state support. Chattanooga really surprises me, and I am wondering what Memphis needs to do to catch up with them.

I have lived and worked out of Memphis because I am in engineering, and basically, the pay is too low and the work there is very slow. But, engineering, in general, has been really rough the last few decades. I would move back to Memphis if an engineering job would be fairly competitive with the rest of the country. I tried applying to an engineering job down there this year, and the pay was about the same as I left back a couple decades ago. And, that is sad. Manufacturing in Memphis would be so ideal for so many reasons, logisitically, the engineering schools around there, etc.

FedEx and the Super Hub are the only real economic stable producers from what I have read. Since I have lived out of town for so long, I might not have the insider's info on the other job producers there. But, I hope to move back down there before I retire. So, Memphis, get some decent paying engineering jobs there!!! LOL

(04-30-2015 04:13 PM)Reekinhavoc Wrote:  Memphis will supply the dope?

In Cocaine Cowboys, they discuss how the Miami skyline was built with booger sugar.

The cost of living, employee costs and land aquisition metrics kill Nashville, but it is estimated that 1,000,000 people will move to Nashville in the next twenty three years. I have purchased 7 acres off I-65 near Millersville for another branch of my service business and will open there soon. I would assume Memphis ranks highly because of low employee costs, low land and building costs and low taxes.

(04-30-2015 05:42 PM)msu65 Wrote:  The cost of living, employee costs and land aquisition metrics kill Nashville, but it is estimated that 1,000,000 people will move to Nashville in the next three years. I have purchased 7 acres off I-65 near Millersville for another branch of my service business and will open there soon. I would assume Memphis ranks highly because of low employee costs, low land and building costs and low taxes.

1 million people in the next 3 years? Surely that's a typo on one of those numbers

I keep hearing how Chattanooga is booming. I have a friend whose highly-educated daughter chose Chattanooga over Atlanta to start work and is now making pretty big bucks and climbing a corporate ladder. She absolultely loves it. Chattanooga seems to be a magnet for the new professionals who are flocking to urban cores all over the country.

Memphis is known for its entrepreneurial spirit with a long history of mega-successes here, partly because of shipping logistics, rail, air, road, and river, and because we are a crossroads: FedEx, Schering-Plough, Holiday Inns, St. Jude, AutoZone, Piggly Wiggly (automated grocery stores), on and on. We have several business incubators, and frequent pop-up events, to help hatch new businesses. Nashville? Smashville. You can have its traffic jams, its country music fans, its crime and hardcore drug addicts.

Check out Bruce VanWyngarten's (Editor) editorial in the front of the Flyer this week, and then thumb over to the last page and read Tim Sampson's The Rant. Memphis is soaring so high now that it's mindboggling, and we are becoming very well-known among those young professionals seeking opportunity in a unique, historic, and hip environment.

(04-30-2015 05:55 PM)pkptigers07 Wrote:  

(04-30-2015 05:42 PM)msu65 Wrote:  The cost of living, employee costs and land aquisition metrics kill Nashville, but it is estimated that 1,000,000 people will move to Nashville in the next three years. I have purchased 7 acres off I-65 near Millersville for another branch of my service business and will open there soon. I would assume Memphis ranks highly because of low employee costs, low land and building costs and low taxes.

1 million people in the next 3 years? Surely that's a typo on one of those numbers

Yes, that would be "Twenty Three" years. Thanks.

Two years ago Nashville's projected growth was 30,000 over the five year period from 2012 to 2017, but they are being revised yearly because 20,000 residents moved into Nashville in 2014 alone.

(04-30-2015 06:00 PM)21-17 Best Time I Ever Ha Wrote:  I keep hearing how Chattanooga is booming. I have a friend whose highly-educated daughter chose Chattanooga over Atlanta to start work and is now making pretty big bucks and climbing a corporate ladder. She absolultely loves it. Chattanooga seems to be a magnet for the new professionals who are flocking to urban cores all over the country.

Memphis is known for its entrepreneurial spirit with a long history of mega-successes here, partly because of shipping logistics, rail, air, road, and river, and because we are a crossroads: FedEx, Schering-Plough, Holiday Inns, St. Jude, AutoZone, Piggly Wiggly (automated grocery stores), on and on. We have several business incubators, and frequent pop-up events, to help hatch new businesses. Nashville? Smashville. You can have its traffic jams, its country music fans, its crime and hardcore drug addicts.

Check out Bruce VanWyngarten's (Editor) editorial in the front of the Flyer this week, and then thumb over to the last page and read Tim Sampson's The Rant. Memphis is soaring so high now that it's mindboggling, and we are becoming very well-known among those young professionals seeking opportunity in a unique, historic, and hip environment.

I love Memphis but I don't think I would throw crime into the equation. Nashville is a relatively safe large city.

(04-30-2015 06:10 PM)msu65 Wrote:  

(04-30-2015 06:00 PM)21-17 Best Time I Ever Ha Wrote:  I keep hearing how Chattanooga is booming. I have a friend whose highly-educated daughter chose Chattanooga over Atlanta to start work and is now making pretty big bucks and climbing a corporate ladder. She absolultely loves it. Chattanooga seems to be a magnet for the new professionals who are flocking to urban cores all over the country.

Memphis is known for its entrepreneurial spirit with a long history of mega-successes here, partly because of shipping logistics, rail, air, road, and river, and because we are a crossroads: FedEx, Schering-Plough, Holiday Inns, St. Jude, AutoZone, Piggly Wiggly (automated grocery stores), on and on. We have several business incubators, and frequent pop-up events, to help hatch new businesses. Nashville? Smashville. You can have its traffic jams, its country music fans, its crime and hardcore drug addicts.

Check out Bruce VanWyngarten's (Editor) editorial in the front of the Flyer this week, and then thumb over to the last page and read Tim Sampson's The Rant. Memphis is soaring so high now that it's mindboggling, and we are becoming very well-known among those young professionals seeking opportunity in a unique, historic, and hip environment.

I love Memphis but I don't think I would throw crime into the equation. Nashville is a relatively safe large city.

lol, wut?

http://www.bizjournals.com/nashville/mor...erous.html

(04-30-2015 06:10 PM)msu65 Wrote:  

(04-30-2015 06:00 PM)21-17 Best Time I Ever Ha Wrote:  I keep hearing how Chattanooga is booming. I have a friend whose highly-educated daughter chose Chattanooga over Atlanta to start work and is now making pretty big bucks and climbing a corporate ladder. She absolultely loves it. Chattanooga seems to be a magnet for the new professionals who are flocking to urban cores all over the country.

Memphis is known for its entrepreneurial spirit with a long history of mega-successes here, partly because of shipping logistics, rail, air, road, and river, and because we are a crossroads: FedEx, Schering-Plough, Holiday Inns, St. Jude, AutoZone, Piggly Wiggly (automated grocery stores), on and on. We have several business incubators, and frequent pop-up events, to help hatch new businesses. Nashville? Smashville. You can have its traffic jams, its country music fans, its crime and hardcore drug addicts.

Check out Bruce VanWyngarten's (Editor) editorial in the front of the Flyer this week, and then thumb over to the last page and read Tim Sampson's The Rant. Memphis is soaring so high now that it's mindboggling, and we are becoming very well-known among those young professionals seeking opportunity in a unique, historic, and hip environment.

I love Memphis but I don't think I would throw crime into the equation. Nashville is a relatively safe large city.

"Relatively safe" except for downtown and the entire north and most of the east side.

(04-30-2015 06:32 PM)UofMemphis Wrote:  

(04-30-2015 06:10 PM)msu65 Wrote:  

(04-30-2015 06:00 PM)21-17 Best Time I Ever Ha Wrote:  I keep hearing how Chattanooga is booming. I have a friend whose highly-educated daughter chose Chattanooga over Atlanta to start work and is now making pretty big bucks and climbing a corporate ladder. She absolultely loves it. Chattanooga seems to be a magnet for the new professionals who are flocking to urban cores all over the country.

Memphis is known for its entrepreneurial spirit with a long history of mega-successes here, partly because of shipping logistics, rail, air, road, and river, and because we are a crossroads: FedEx, Schering-Plough, Holiday Inns, St. Jude, AutoZone, Piggly Wiggly (automated grocery stores), on and on. We have several business incubators, and frequent pop-up events, to help hatch new businesses. Nashville? Smashville. You can have its traffic jams, its country music fans, its crime and hardcore drug addicts.

Check out Bruce VanWyngarten's (Editor) editorial in the front of the Flyer this week, and then thumb over to the last page and read Tim Sampson's The Rant. Memphis is soaring so high now that it's mindboggling, and we are becoming very well-known among those young professionals seeking opportunity in a unique, historic, and hip environment.

I love Memphis but I don't think I would throw crime into the equation. Nashville is a relatively safe large city.

lol, wut?

http://www.bizjournals.com/nashville/mor...erous.html

Yep, according to that link Nashville is the 18th most dangerous city and Memphis is no. 5.

Nashville as a "relatively safe large city"--with the emphasis on relatively, I suppose Nashville is safer than Memphis, Atlanta, New Orleans, Birmingham, and Miami, but relative to many other US cities outside the south or the rustbelt, it's absolutely dangerous.

Here we go.

NTR

VPSR (very political section related)

(04-30-2015 04:33 PM)rc0213 Wrote:  I am surprised Nashville is lower than Memphis or Chattanooga, since Nashville gets all the state support. Chattanooga really surprises me, and I am wondering what Memphis needs to do to catch up with them.

I have lived and worked out of Memphis because I am in engineering, and basically, the pay is too low and the work there is very slow. But, engineering, in general, has been really rough the last few decades. I would move back to Memphis if an engineering job would be fairly competitive with the rest of the country. I tried applying to an engineering job down there this year, and the pay was about the same as I left back a couple decades ago. And, that is sad. Manufacturing in Memphis would be so ideal for so many reasons, logisitically, the engineering schools around there, etc.

FedEx and the Super Hub are the only real economic stable producers from what I have read. Since I have lived out of town for so long, I might not have the insider's info on the other job producers there. But, I hope to move back down there before I retire. So, Memphis, get some decent paying engineering jobs there!!! LOL

Memphis City Schools cannot provide a hireable work force.

Companies cannot locate here.

Shortage of good paying jobs.

Economy stays depressed.

It's a nasty cycle because for over 30 years no one has had the balls to clean up that mess of a school system.

Yes, it really is that simple and now it's pretty much too late.

I've known some people that have moved to Chattanooga for nice paying jobs. No state income tax, not far from Atlanta and in the mountains is what attracted them.