Friday, March 12, 2010
By the Way / Crazy Crap Nashville Can't Even Get Crazy Right
Posted by Tracy Moore on Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 4:04 PM
Though you could posit that Nashville often operates at a slower, arguably better pace, there's plenty of reason to lament how slow on the uptake we usually are when it comes to trends: breast-milk cheese, ironic mustaches, progressive politics, slow food -- it all takes so yawn-inducingly long to catch on. On the upside, statewide, we're usually full-steam ahead when it comes to embarrassing news stories, dumb laws, backwoods politicians, myopic and pitiful views. But crazy? I thought we'd surely have that one licked, no problem. Unfortunately, this latest "study" from the Daily Beast proves we're still trudging behind on that front as well: Nashville's only the 32nd "craziest" city in the country.
Using four criteria -- psychiatrists per capita, stress, eccentricity and drinking -- the Beast rated the 57 largest metro areas in the country and looked at how many shrinks per person operate there, our emotional and mental health, how "eccentric" we are (no doubt a subjective task) and how heavily we drink.
Having lived here for a decade and visited for a lifetime, I would have thought our small-town vices and delusional, fame-grabbing boozehounds would make for a hoppin' heap of wacko, but no. 32nd, y'all. 32nd. That wouldn't even make the cut for a middling country song. Heads hung in shame.
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