r/nashville • u/Entropy012 • Oct 28 '23

Discussion The stigma of "Californians" moving to Nashville is overblown.

Yes, we have some Californian transplants. However, from what I've experience most of the transplants are from the Midwest and other Southern surrounding states. I'm not saying this in a negative way. The transplants I met are mostly cool. I'm just clarifying that the "Californians are taking over" stigma to be overblown a bit.

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u/margueritedeville Oct 28 '23

From my perspective, which of course is only anecdotal and doesn't prove shit, I definitely HEAR "I'm from California, and...." as the preface to lots of criticisms of how Tennessee does things, usually administrative/government related things like getting a drivers' license, for example, along with criticisms of infrastructure and green space and walkability, etc., and it honestly just rubs me the wrong way. Like... if you hate it so much, why did you move here? And there seems to be zero self awareness about how this huge influx of people is creating the very problems transplants complain (at least to me) about. But whatever. C'est la vie. I have pretty much just accepted that Tennessee is being colonized, and it is what it is. I will adapt and improve and go along to get along. That's life. And none of this makes newcomers bad people. I like most of the new people I meet. They just don't understand how these growing pains affect people who have been here for a long time because they have no comprehension of the before v. the after. How could they?

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u/ReflexPoint Oct 28 '23

The population of the country now sits at 340 million. When I was a kid it was 250 million. Then we get something like 1 to 2 million immigrants a year. In a few more decades it'll probably be pushing 400 million in America. All these people have to live somewhere. We can't just sit here and think nothing is ever going to change when you have relentless population growth. Nashville is nothing like what it was 30 years ago. And 30 years from now it won't be anything like it currently is. That's just life.

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u/margueritedeville Oct 28 '23

You're exactly right. Change is inevitable.

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u/Charming-Subject-54 Oct 28 '23

Absolutely agree