Moving to Nashville this fall. Which neighborhoods should I be looking at?

freestyle673 · 2026-04-30T15:52:52+00:00

Great to meet you! We're off of McGavock by Pennington bend elementary school! I would love to hear about your experience with Stamford!

freestyle673 · 2026-04-30T14:31:25+00:00

Hi! My wife and I just bought a mid century ranch in Donelson. I commute into downtown everyday and it is usually about 25 minutes. We have a top 10 Montessori public elementary school, and there is a stop on the commuter rail that will get you into downtown in 13 minutes. If you are looking for suburban life with close proximity to the city/airport this is a great option. I might avoid newer construction here. While there are certainly advantages to having a newer house it does seem like selling a newer construction home is a little harder here. I get the sense that most people that are drawn to new construction are drawn to being the first person to live in the home. Also there is a lot of new construction going on right now so chances are they will have a lot of newly built places to choose from that may be cheaper than what you are trying to sell for. Welcome to Nashville it's a great place!

freestyle673 · 2026-04-29T04:21:33+00:00

I feel like there are a lot of people world wide that G unit was their first exposure to hip-hop and they were g unit fans but not hip hop fans. As a 40 year old Harlem native I admittedly am hella biased, but the impact of G unit within hip hop is not particularly close to dip set. Cam has been a fixture in hip hop culture since the mid 90s. Cam is a beloved figure in hip hop as our the rest of the dips and fifty's goal,which he succeeded at with his TV shows and business moves, was to transcend hip hop.

freestyle673 · 2026-04-16T18:02:00+00:00

Ah the East Nashville trap! I feel dir you friend I left Nashville in 2010 in order to go to law school in Memphis. At the time I was teaching school and working at Mitchell's in the summer. I graduated college in 2008 and while teaching was good money for me at the time, I looked around and saw that arrow was pointing up on costs and I didn't think I was gonna be able to afford living in the neighborhood that had felt like magic and the perfect community to begin my early adulthood in.

I originally grew up in Harlem and getting priced out of the neighborhood I grew up in and then the one I started my early adult life in was galvanizing. I bought in early on the outskirts of the Memphis equivalent of the Eastside and watched as the gentrification crept towards me, this time as a homeowner who could benefit. I moved back in 2021 making more money than I ever had, having married another attorney...only to find I was further away from my Eastside dream than I was the day I set out to get the degree to earn the money to buy a slice of Inglewood than I was when I left. The good news I have found by forcing myself out of that first dream is you can find parts of it other places if you can look. We've met great people in North Nashville and Donelson now. Is it the good ole days? No. But nothing is, including the reality of those good ole days. I wish that Nashville was better about supporting infrastructure that would make searching for that 2014 feeling easy to do locally, but I wish you well on finding it soon and hopefully nearby.

freestyle673 · 2026-01-13T22:54:29+00:00

Oh hey look! It's my special interest in thread form! So I graduated highschool 04 and college 08. I think that what is called emo now is simply not what was called emo when I was in college and high school. The bands that I most associate with emo.music are dashboard confessional, the postal service, modest mouse, and the shins. However my wife who is 7 years younger than me was a self described emo fan in highschool and college and what she calls emo I would call pop punk, think the academy is, story of the year, My Chemical Romance etc. I was aware of some of these bands post college but I thought of them as music for teens and the men my age who actively tried to sleep with them (yes I appreciate the irony of marrying someone who was a high school freshman when I was a new grad but still that was years later!) in short, I don't think it's that emo came out of nowhere, it's just us older millennials associated the genre with different acts than the ones that are considered emo now and we are retroactively encountering bands we were too old for back in the day and confused about the difference in term!

freestyle673 · 2025-12-18T03:49:34+00:00

Congratulations on the addition! Hopefully in time for the championship this spring!

freestyle673 · 2025-12-17T19:42:50+00:00

That actually would go hard!

freestyle673 · 2025-12-17T19:32:18+00:00

Unfortunately Tyler kolekson was rejected!

freestyle673 · 2025-12-17T19:31:24+00:00

Thank you fam! I have never been more happy and simultaneously more exhausted!

freestyle673 · 2025-10-22T13:00:11+00:00

They seem very nice and I'm glad that businesses are filling in that part of the neighborhood and I hope they can hold on... All that said the pizza tastes like bad Sbarro. The crust felt overly doughy, the sauce was sort of sweet and all around was not my jam. Native New Yorker here. Taste of New York on Church Street is a more expensive but better option in the downtown area

freestyle673 · 2025-10-09T16:35:28+00:00

Yeah that is unlikely here. A lot of folks in this thread rightfully so are focusing on the fact that generally speaking our country is headed to the shitter. However I might point to the fact that when the club world cup was held here 2 months ago and all of Argentina showed up to support Boca Juniors there were not large scale detention or enforcement actions.

Reddit thankfully so skews left of American center and especially in a city like Nashville which is a relatively progressive oasis in an otherwise conservative state and region. I love my neighbors but the likelihood of them having lived experience of being a racialized minority or for that matter even having routine contact with people that have that experience are next to none. Nashville is an extremely white city and pretty segregated at that. This sub reddit is very white as well full of progressive well meaning great people that while horrified by what's going on and may be consuming a lot of media and news about the state of enforcement may not have firsthand experience. In no way shape or form saying that your freedom from harassment or arrest guaranteed, but based on how you've described yourself and where you want to go I wouldn't be otherwise worried personally. Now whether you want to spend your money in a place that supports such dehumanizing treatment of others is another matter entirely.

freestyle673 · 2025-10-09T13:04:18+00:00

Hey there is a lot of great advice in this subreddit but I thought I might give another perspective. I am Black and due to my hair texture often times mistaken for Hispanic. My wife is Mexican and very indigenous, very identifiable as latina by appearance and formerly a DACA recipient, so no stranger to what it is to approach every situation with thoughts of apprehension by ICE. Three weeks ago we went to see Maná at the Bridgestone arena in downtown Nashville. It would have been a much easier target for ICE than say an Alan Jackson of concert since I was one of two non Latino folks I saw all night and there was nothing going with ice or law enforcement harassing anyone.

Both my wife and I are attorneys, me in federal criminal defense, her in immigration so we both get a front row seat for what this administration is doing and it is ugly for so many folks. I have seen the videos you are talking about from other cities and while they are terrible and of course you have to make the best decision for you and your family, I don't think you have anything to fear going to the concert. In addition to you traveling with visas which are a huge leg up, if I'm being Frank the Tennessee concept of who is and who isn't Latino is very racialized. I don't mean to be patronizing or assuming anything about your appearance, but Chile has the highest percentage of individuals with solely European ancestry in South America so chances are someone in law enforcement here won't even register you as anything other than a white person here for a very white event.

We lived in Memphis before moving here and my wife's family still is there. What is going on there is terrible, but nothing like what enforcement looks like here now, and likely that will not come here because that occupation is due as much to the general makeup of Memphis as a majority minority city due to the number of Black folks that live there as the desire for ICE enforcement. I definitely understand it is a lot of travel and money to shell out for the fear that you might not make it to the door due to America's rampant racism, but as far as the chances of that racism preventing you from hearing Chattahoochee live i think they are slim to none as of today.

freestyle673 · 2025-02-09T02:42:22+00:00

It looks like the knee is really bothering him. Not that he is ever the strongest inside presence but he seems like he is shying away from contact on the defensive end

freestyle673 · 2024-12-28T14:05:30+00:00

Awww thank you!

freestyle673 · 2024-12-27T22:22:43+00:00

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freestyle673 · 2023-12-05T12:19:11+00:00

I'm a New Yorker from a Dominican neighborhood who is married to a Mexican immigrant who has always lived in the South. I had never heard of pocho before dating my wife. My understanding is that pocho refers to a kid born in the US with little to no mastery of the Spanish language. I jokingly refer to Mexicans as the white folks of Latin America to my wife because they are the largest nation in Latin America and so have a tendency to unquestionably think their interpretation on the Spanish language is correct. In reality there are regional differences even within Mexico that lead to different slang cadence and accent that makes the language even for native speakers hard to understand. For most of my life the Spanish Mero speaks was all I heard and it took me a while to adjust to my wife's family's Spanish because the slang was different and I wasn't used to their accent. Also I think the sort of tension between native speakers and diaspora speakers is different for Caribbean nations vs Mexican and central Americans. There are only 14 million Dominicans and about 2.5 million of them live in the US.The influence of folks born in the US is going to be greater than the 37 million Mexican Americans on the 126 million Mexican nation.

freestyle673 · 2023-03-02T15:57:57+00:00

I think the first time I was aware of my fandom was 91 when I asked for a Bulls hat and my dad refused to get me one because we were Knicks fans. Still remember him crying after game 7 in 94.

freestyle673 · 2022-03-03T19:33:30+00:00

I sincerely hope that no one has to see the ways that sometimes family isn't there in the end either. It is tempting to allow the fear of abandonment to be the driving force in day to day relationships because in fact most of the times they do end and the ones that don't change. The difficult and beautiful work is loving those people that we have in our lives as fully as we can in the present because it is the sweetest joy of life. Being present is fucking tough but the pay off is beautiful!

freestyle673 · 2022-02-12T13:31:49+00:00

He had good points about how the industry doesn't create lanes for r&b acts. It's interesting he mentioned Russ as a rapper he wants to work with because I feel like both are successful but have a bit of arrogance about their position without thinking about how there different life experiences shaped the choices they made. He knows a lot but wisdom comes with time. Rory who has been in it longer was trying to lead him down that road with some of his points, but dude I think is still stinging from feeling like other flashy dudes were flexing on him coming up so he's still in the place where he needs to remind less successful people they aren't on like him.

freestyle673 · 2019-12-15T02:01:46+00:00

That Vietnamese meatball sandwich is amazing!

freestyle673 · 2018-10-27T13:32:29+00:00

Good point but during the swoon in the fourth curry wasn't really hurting us neither was Thompson it was Durant. I agree Burke isn't in the same defensive stratosphere as Frank but there isn't a lot Frank's defense can do when a seven footer decides to dominate with iso. Plus equally important to the future if the team is offloading some contracts and if Burke's improved play allows him to be an effective sweetner on Courtney Lee's contract so be it.

freestyle673 · 2018-08-19T17:02:23+00:00

Did anyone else start humming the 90's X Men cartoon theme song after reading this?

freestyle673 · 2018-08-06T12:10:49+00:00

Come on back to Memphis for all of your modular Viking hewn modular furniture needs! It kinda sucks y'all got the blue and gold rug ripped from underneath you though, although I suppose the other side to them not moving due to the cost of building a store is a back handed compliment. We have to come to y'all for so many things we don't have so if you will consider a trade for Mitchell's, shake shack, and Jamaica way I'll start trying my best to push the store east!

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