"Nashville's growing population is making it expensive for locals?" You don't say! Who would of thought?!

Same in Texas. Houston, Austin, and Dallas natives are struggling to survive. Cost of living is high, while out of state folks think it’s great.

As soon as the Big Tech companies show up, it's only a matter of time before the problems begin.

This is been a issue for years

Like every city...past and future.

Helluva job interviewing transplants about the pain of locals NBC

Step 1: locals work hard and build a wonderful community full lf unique culture and prosperity. Step 2: community gains popularity and ends up on the "best places to live" list Step 3: out of towners flock to get a piece of the propserity Step 4: out kf towners ruin culture and prosperity because they dont know how to work hard or maintain a functional community. Step 5: ruined

I live in nashville and I cannot afford to live here anymore. it's insane and broadway area is getting way out of hand .

Does it make sense to anyone? "This place is getting more expensive because people who fled from "A" and "B" ... At the same time "A" e "B" are still expensive"?

The people come for the music, but the musicians leave because of the people 😢

Californian transplants are coming and putting up offers on houses that are $200k to $300k above the asking price. That’s why.

My wife and I have visited there twice in two years. You can see the growth even as a tourist. The construction (Downtown), the traffic heading in and out of town, foot traffic on Broadway, etc. A lot of energy. The bands performing don't actually play country music from what I saw, a lot of classic rock.

Sadly this has become an issue not just in the US but the entire world as well.

Lived in Nashville for 2 years..couldn’t wait to leave

Too crowded and too many people

I was born in Nashville and moved to Murfreesboro in 2003 but still worked downtown in Nashville till 2016...working for the State making $32,000 a year when i left...so...you can see why you rarely run into a Nashville Native in Nashville...we can't live there

I didn't hear any Nashville country accents in this segment, just new people from somewhere else.

Nashville is turning into Austin 😅

This is increasingly the case all over the world. The population of the world is over 8B now. 50 years ago, it was only 4B. The world is under a lot of strain.

This is nothing new. The cost of living started getting ridiculous as far back as 2014, if not earlier.

Locals bellyaching over transplants. A tale as old as time.

Ban short term rentals.

I've been living in Nashville for twenty years and been tossed out of not one, but two apartment complexes bought out from under me by developers. I don't dare go downtown anymore because the parking costs almost as much as the concert or club I wanted to get into. And one other thing the story didn't mention? Our conservative state legislature HATES Nashville and everyone who lives here, and routinely nullifies and overturns municipal legislation (our non-discrimination ordinance, our Community Oversight Board, etc.) that goes against its agenda. My advice to anyone who comes down here for a weekend and thinks Nashville would be a great place to live? Don't bother unless you make at least $100K a year. And if you do? Stay away, anyway; you're part of the problem.

This is happening to a lot of cities across the South. Out of state transplants moving in due to cheaper cost of living compared to where they came from; but the sheer influx ends up making the city they move to as or almost as expensive as where they came from.

That's the entire U.S

I went to college in Atlanta and Nashville in the 80,s ..the population of both have exploded.I am glad i lived in those 2 cities in the 80,s

Native Nashvillian who still lives in Nashville/Davidson County. The city has changed.

Proud Nashvillian here born and raised!

Same thing in Charleston

Thats just life, places change overtime. It's much better for your city to be growing than losing people and becoming an economic dustbin. A lot of rust belt cities that emptied out decades ago are just now starting to recover. Many are still doing poorly.

Thanks California, New York , DMV, Washington, and Oregon.

If they have that many people then taxes would be lower. ????

Why is it so hard to find the fireworks in Nashville stream?🤦🏿‍♂️

Opry Live and other historical figures is why Nashville Tennessee is still amazing I hope everyone still gets funding and economic relief.

Insightful

That's happening to northwest Arkansas as well. Thanks Walmart headquarters, Tyson Foods and the University of Arkansas

Traffic use to end at around 5;30 or 6 …. Now it ends around 7:30 to 8 …. 1 bedroom nice apartment use to be $425.00 now it’s almost 1k 😢 a gallon of milk in gas stations is almost $6 A bag of Doritos the party size is almost $6 ….. gas is almost $4 dollars a gallon Minimum jobs paying $11-$15 an hour Yeah they definitely want us all peasants gone!!!! To make way for celebrities who move to Nashville daily and people from Florida- New York- Mississippi- Texas- Georgia- Illinois move here everyday …. Almost 120 people a day move here… it use to be 77 The new homes that a strong wind will knock down being built ( the fancy looking ones) are everywhere now….. downtown has now become an entire show… no room to walk… everyday it’s packed…. That they shut down streets…. And the homeless people downtown has gathered a Taylor Swift church…. While Taylor swift has a mansion for her cat… But hasn’t blessed them with a miracle sandwich or maybe a few bottled waters…. Yup Nashville is definitely getting more attention than other major tourist cities….. I mean people from around the world come here to visit… Then end up moving here… Yup we are doomed

Great Share .

Need revamp detroit.

Why CA not trying to be like Tenn then?

Stopped going downtown in 2017.

“A rising tide lifts all boats,” but not in this economy LOL

I love it.

It will be the next Branson MO. Expensive for families to go. 95 dollar tickets to enter a lame outdated theme park. That's why hotels are going out of business.

I love Nashville ❤❤❤

Austin TX, Phoenix AZ, Nashville TN, Charlotte NC. Thats where all your California hipsters are moving. Good luck with that folks.

We moved here almost 6 years ago and live 12 miles outside of Nashville due to a job relocation. So lucky we moved when we did because the cost of homes went through the roof over these years. We're happy here and Tennesseans are great but, plan to retire some place else potentially in the future.

Time to pack my bags🤠

the main reason is the govt mortgage limit that creates equity wealth. . Area near the Coast loan limit are over $1 million , and inland is about $600K. So that is a big equity wealth gap.

It’s a great “visit” city for about 2 weeks but living their is not my cup of tea

Hawk Tuah girl made the Nashville Economy go up also now everyone’s been googling this city because of her ❤

Same in Colorado

It's quite amusing because Nashville locals who are being priced out are relocating to Huntsville, AL, and as a result, they are driving up prices for those locals. And essentially repeating the same cycle.

Nashville is the only place in the south I would consider living.

I can’t lie I’ve been wanting to visit Nashville for a while now. Even thought about moving there a couple years ago lol. And yes I’m from a big dense city called NYC 😅…oh well, cry me a river lol

Absolutely hilarious! 😂😂😂

It happened in the Phoenix metropolitan area. All the affordable housing is gone. Sad to see.

People compain there "is no jobs" then jobs come "it's too expensive to live!" I mean what did you all expect? cheap living? Once a city grows the developers want to attract those with money. Tennesse needs to increase wages. Plain and simple to balance the inflation.

Still way cheaper than in Toronto.

and yet, as a single father of 2, they give me no aid whatsoever because "I make too much at $20h/40h week to qualify for assistance".

Yall can thank the “huak tuah” girl

Of course they didn't mention the crime. If you're downtown, you're usually ok but once you step outside that bubble - turn your awareness up. #615

Austin, Texas has entered the chat 😊

It’s life get over it. Try living in California Bay Area.

Vanlife parking and utilities for all. Clearly folks want to live in multiple cities and should be able to do so.

Californians from Arizona to Georgia....Theyre like locusts.

Hang in there, Tennessee. With love, A Texan When condos start overtking areas once known for vibes, it's the beginning of the end.

If you don’t have assets then the cities aren’t incentivized to care about the plebs until you walk out of the city…

As soon as they got rid of state income taxes everyone wants in

Y'all are literally years late on this lol

nashville, so hot right now

Not to mention the crime rate is going to increase.

If Tenn is good for business why other states not copy? The population can be spread out. There be no RE bubble in Nashville. This makes no sense.

This has been happening for years!

I grew up near Nashville but moved to the NE over 20 years ago. I agree, it's too populated now and too many people. Please keep moving there and other southern states and leave the NE with less population =peace/heaven!

move to Kansas if you exclusivity

I mean everywhere else is expensive

Austin, Tx 2.0 - plus everyone is rich!!! Just look at the stock market 🤷🏼‍♂️ buy buy buy never goes down 🚀

I live in florida. my rent tripled after the plandemic

we been saying this….

The same people complaining now had similar people complaining before them. That's life!

I have gotten the greatest music lessons living in the Nashville area. Working with some of the best musicians in the world !! Today im a far better songwriter, guitar player and drummer thanks to music city u.s.a !!

Companies are coming to profit! Tennessee’s minimum wage, in 2024, is $7.25 an hour before federal taxes and insurance! It’s prime for worker & wage abuse.

Maybe they will move to Memphis

Asked for it by role playing the parts of “country music” for performances/tourists. There are no real cowboys in TN.

It’s self inflicted. (Been here for decades). Plus, the locals (rich and poor) are the cruelest unlettered people I have ever encountered.

Good

Shouldn't we be happy for Nashville? People can just move, but it's great for the city

“I kind of miss the charm.” The charm was destroyed 10 years. Nashville is now just an oil field. It’s being exploited just like Country Music, just like anything else you can make money off of. If you haven’t lived here for at least 20 years you have no idea what you’re talking about. Developers have single handedly destroyed the city. It looks and feels just like any other city. It’s sad. Thanks a lot.

Water is wet.

By country music you mean pop right?

And it will be ruined just like Austin.

Printing a trillion dollars every 90 days and causing record inflation might be a cause for the increase in expenses but lets not mention that

Outside revenue is bad for local economies?! .. that’s a new one.

expensive! ... not Music to their ears😅😅😱😱

Who would've thought almost like supply and demand is a thing. Fact is, Nashville doesn't have the infrastructure too cope with all these people it's the issue Atlanta has had for 15 years now

Tennessee has regressive high sales tax, which disproportionately impacts people living paycheck to paycheck just to afford tax cuts for high earners.

Nashville is wonderful, I wouldn’t come visit.

I visited once, wasn’t that great. Just that strip of bars but the city didn’t really offer anything else

I blame the hawk tuah girl 😂