Is it? We've been eyeing Tennessee as a potential state to relocate to from California. I figured Tennessee would be a based state. Is it just Nashville?
Tennessee is amazing, but Nashville is slowly becoming a shit hole of uncontrolled spending.
Big thing right now, is due to the city losing on tons of tax revenue from tourism because the city is shut down, and because of massively increasing spending on homeless and lazy, the politicians decided the best way to solve the issue is a 34% increase on property taxes. There was a petition to add to the ballot a rejection of that tax, so the government declared that if the new tax was rejected, then instead of reducing spending on welfare, they would cut police and other first responders.
Within the city though, there's plenty of based people; way more density-wise than I ever met in NYC. Tons of small family-owned restaurants still fly US flags and offer military and first responder discounts. Outside downtown and my job's office, I very rarely see no guns allowed signs (note they have force of law in TN). Churches are hit or miss; few I've been to are hyper-progressive "Jesus was a communist" types, while others are more family-orientated moderate conservative.
Is it? We've been eyeing Tennessee as a potential state to relocate to from California. I figured Tennessee would be a based state. Is it just Nashville?
Big cities are all blue. It's just a fact. Memphis and Nashville are hopeless. The rest of the state is A-OK.
Knoxville is blue in the city. The county has reasonably based Kane as mayor. The city mayor is a masked shill from NoVA though
My woman is going to hate me for saying this publicly, but Chattanooga is beyond awesome. If you're truly based, you should definitely consider it.
Tennessee is amazing, but Nashville is slowly becoming a shit hole of uncontrolled spending.
Big thing right now, is due to the city losing on tons of tax revenue from tourism because the city is shut down, and because of massively increasing spending on homeless and lazy, the politicians decided the best way to solve the issue is a 34% increase on property taxes. There was a petition to add to the ballot a rejection of that tax, so the government declared that if the new tax was rejected, then instead of reducing spending on welfare, they would cut police and other first responders.
Within the city though, there's plenty of based people; way more density-wise than I ever met in NYC. Tons of small family-owned restaurants still fly US flags and offer military and first responder discounts. Outside downtown and my job's office, I very rarely see no guns allowed signs (note they have force of law in TN). Churches are hit or miss; few I've been to are hyper-progressive "Jesus was a communist" types, while others are more family-orientated moderate conservative.
TN as a whole is based. It's Nashville and Memphis that aren't.
Its just that bubble downtown thats like that. The rest of my state isn't anything like it.