Friday, July 8, 2011
The Economy Forbes: Nashville is No. 3 Boom Town in Country
Posted by Jack Silverman on Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 10:16 AM
Perhaps less expected is the No. 3 ranking for Nashville, Tenn. The country music capital, with its low housing prices and pro-business environment, has experienced rapid growth in educated migrants, where it ranks an impressive fourth in terms of percentage growth. New ethnic groups, such as Latinos and Asians, have doubled in size over the past decade.I wonder if he really meant to say "educated migrants." A migrant is someone who moves regularly in order to find work, especially in harvesting crops. I'm sure we have migrant workers here, but I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest he meant to say "educated immigrants." Call me crazy. Everyone else does.Two advantages Nashville and other rising Southern cities like No. 8 Charlotte, N.C., possess are a mild climate and smaller scale. Even with population growth, they do not suffer the persistent transportation bottlenecks that strangle the older growth hubs. At the same time, these cities are building the infrastructure — roads, cultural institutions and airports — critical to future growth.
The caption from Nashville's page on the accompanying slide show:
The country music capital, with its low housing prices and pro-business environment, has experienced rapid growth in educated migrants, where it ranks an impressive fourth in terms of percentage growth. New ethnic groups, such as Latinos and Asians, have doubled in size over the past decade. A high quality of life, a vibrant cultural and music scene and a diverse population also make Nashville a desirable place to live.
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Great, traffic is already bad enough. I hope the "pro-business environment" also includes welcoming creative class entrepreneurs. I don't want to live in something like Charlotte or Atlanta.
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A migrant is anyone who moves from one location to another. It can be from somewhere in the US or overseas. I was/am an educated migrant who moved here. So are you Jack. :)
I think he meant "migrants" actually. The amount of people that fly in every week to work at the healthcare and hospital corporations here in town is staggering. I'm recruit for these individuals and can attest to the number. Great article though bringing attention to the Forbes spotlight!
Wrong, Pseudonym. You are an educated immigrant. A migrant is someone who moves regularly in order to find work, particularly in harvesting crops:
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/…
I think you are thinking of "immigrant":
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/…
what the author of the original article says is educated migraTION; he's not describing the people, he's describing the movement.
I am wondering if they used the word migrant in the classical sense. Educated migrants may mean what they meant for Atlanta the last 3 decades. In this case migrant would include anyone moving into the city from any other location, including U.S. citizens from other states.
Migrant is the root of immigrant, the prefix just implies the direction of the migration. I think sometimes dictionary publishers forget the construction of the words they apply definitions to.
I understand where y'all are coming from, but I'm sticking to my guns on this one. Google migrant, and almost all references are to migrant workers. Immigrant is the word typically used for what the author meant. But we can agree to disagree.
The US Government applies the term migrant to those moving within the United States. Those moving from outside the US are immigrants.
I wonder if he really meant to say "mild climate." Floods, ice and snow storms, tornados and my weather widget says it's supposed to surpass 100 degrees next Tuesday. If this is mild, what are the extremes?
@Pseudonym is correct. All manner of governments (local, state, Fed) use the term "migrant" to define in-migration aka movement of people within the US (who are assumed to be citizens, but that's a whole other bag of marbles...) as apposed to the term "immigrant" aka someone from another country in demographic studies & projections.
Nashville and surrounding areas are great locations to "get a new start". I am from a dwindling small town economy that had nothing to offer a young new to the work force and fresh out of the military/college man, like myself. With beautiful landscapes and welcoming people, its hard to belive that the worst thing about this town are the drivers and the design of the roads and highways. With misplaced on/off ramps, rubberneckers, and migrants that don't know how to drive. Sometimes I wish I could mount a M-2 on top of my blazer and clear the roads.
Nashville, if your choice is to live in a city, is the best in the continental US. Of course, that's just my own opinion, but I've been in all the rest, and none are as nice as here. Business climate, weather climate, manageable traffic, picturesque neighborhoods, minimal urban decay, sensible urban renewal, historical significance, citizen niceness, and so far, relatively sensible government: we have it all. I hope we can keep it that way.
"I wonder if he really meant to say "mild climate." Floods, ice and snow storms, tornados and my weather widget says it's supposed to surpass 100 degrees next Tuesday. If this is mild, what are the extremes?"
Antartica and Dealth Valley
Oh c'mon Gil. Try the north. Where you get floods, ice and snow storms that will kill you and tornados as well. 100 degrees? Minnesota gets that every year.
Boom town, eh? I know of several very qualified people looking for work, and they're looking elsewhere. Mild climate? Withering heat in the summer, colder than Michigan in the winter. A diverse population makes this a desirable place to live? Let's examine the quality of life in this vibrant city. You get mugged in a car wash. Your car gets broken into. An illegal alien causes a fire in your apartment complex. A bum threatens to kill you because you don't have a dollar for him. You smell piss as you enter your place of work. You see a leper and wonder if he is contagious. Bums on every corner selling socialist papers. You are riding your bicycle, and a motorist cuts you off. The cashier at the fast-food joint can't do basic arithmetic. A cop pulls you over, and he is so stupid you think that he should not be entrusted with a gun. You avoid certain bars because of recent stabbings. I could go on and on.
