Nashville, America’s music capital, has become more popular due to destination concerts and bachelorette parties. NBC News’ Kathy Park spoke to locals about how the cost of living has skyrocketed as the city’s popularity has grown.
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#Nashville #CostOfLiving #Popularity
States need to be able to better regulate commerce and property ownership to protect locals. There are too many people from C*****A buying up properties across the country and pricing people out of their own homes. Local and state governments need to be less greedy and be able to restrict or even reverse home purchases from foreign entities.
“Less greedy” 😂 That therin lies the problem. Not just in Nashville but the entire US. Its called American Capitalism. And what you are suggesting is closer to socialism than otherwise.
Helluva job interviewing transplants about the pain of locals NBC
Well said. Admittedly, there’s a point where a transplant stays someplace long enough they become a local–yours truly, who moved her twenty years back, is a good example. But seeking input on the situation from a bunch or relative Johnny-come-latelys comes across as tone-deaf.
If you lived in Brooklyn for the past 20 years you understand this pain
The white-est city in America 😂😂😂
And?
…..visit Spokane, and Boise. 🤷🏼♂️
@@eddieg6436 or cities in Indiana or Oklahoma
The people come for the music, but the musicians leave because of the people 😢
That’s odd. No people, no listeners of the music!
“Nashville’s growing population is making it expensive for locals?” You don’t say! Who would of thought?!
Right?! Who would *have* thought
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.
Residents are moving out of Nashville. Majority of Newcomers move into surrounding Counties across the State of TN & not Nashville.
😂 it’s 2024, there are more people on the planet. Elect those who aren’t constantly caught off guard by this? Maybe? Do you want to live in a place where nobody wants to be? Then you wouldn’t want to be there either! And all this blaming liberals is hilarious, big D disgruntled unAmerican talk.
Locals bellyaching over transplants. A tale as old as time.
And you know many of the “locals” were also transplants at one time.
Californians*
@@bryanspilner7370
i am a californian i don’t support mega corporations that thinks they do whatever they want
@@bryanspilner7370 You’re aware that MILLIONS of “Californians” were born and raised in the Midwest or South or empty West, tried CA for a few years, then moved somewhere they *might* be able to buy a home someday, right?
My friends who live in LasVegas say the same thing
Insightful
Beyonce
why would joe biden make nashville more expensive? 😡😡😡😡😡😡
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.
That may be the minimum wage but almost all the grocery stores here are hiring with a starting wage of 16.oo -18.00 a hour.Same goes for fast food places.
@@kathywest77 Yes, and, factories (companies) that are moving there are looking for low-wage workers. $16-$18/hour is still not enough to survive in this economy or that city. The video is literally about Nashville becoming too expensive for locals.
@@kathywest77 and who can afford 1 br apartment on that. Barely anyone.
@@kathywest77 If they want good employees who will show up on time, work and not steal from them, then they’ll need to bring their wage up to be commensurate with the ability to pay for housing.
Like every city…past and future.
People from big states like California and New York have bought up everything. Finding a job here has never been a problem. Property values have tripled. Caught lots of locals off guard.
How many illegals are living there now?
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 has nothing to do with the USA
Mate it’s just the third world countries growing at a rapid rate. 1st world are on a huge decline.
What does India or Nigeria’s populations have to do with USA? They can hardly get citizenship over here.
@@Marco32144 just say different countries ,what is third world and is there second world also
@@pathtovortex ok? 🤨
@@Marco32144 Uhm.. The US, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand have booming poulations as well in due part to the heavy immigration and booming birth rates of certain segments of the demographic. Not to mention that people in developing countries do consume commodities, which in turn increase the demand and price globally. Also, foreigners purchase property as well, which obviously pushes up real estate prices.
We need another covid
so they want more jobs and investment but when they get it they start complaining. So what do you want then? That your city is not growing?
Time to pack my bags🤠
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”?
Does housing supply versus demand make sense? Yes. Does overpopulation make sense? Yes.
@@turbojon8117try explaining that to DemoRATs though
Because A and B are still packed with people.
STAYING AWAY! crowds mean trouble.
Crowds don’t always mean trouble so I’m giving your comments thumbs down!
Get ready for the hordes of Liberals and Democrats that are running from their own failed states
Too crowded and too many people
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.
Oh waaaaaaah. Lefties did this to Florida 2020
This happened to Portland and Austin. When affluent hipsters and techies price out local artists and quirky businesses.
@@donnyramay2635 I mean, the local artists and quirky businesses previously had priced out the people that inhabited those areas before them. Being in the first wave of gentrification has its drawbacks I guess.
And they are soulless leftists
It happened to Detroit too before those. These things happen 🤷🏻♂️
It’s happened before and will happen in the future. Just how things go.
What would u rather have, live in a dying city devoid of opportunities and growth, stagnating into a decaying town “frozen in time” two decades or more in the past – its citizens “proudly” and “defiantly” calling it a place that harkens back to the “good ol days?”
Have to get real with reality.
@@jyc313The thing about it is that the cities that the person posting,, along with Nashville, weren’t dying towns.
They were towns with voices or because they weren’t as big as their close large city counterparts- Seattle; Houston/Dallas; Atlanta- were able to be affordable for younger people and carved an identity and workforce out of that. Now with their boom/bust town statuses and the older people seeing how they can make money off of the city, it pushes locals out. Especially in the ones listed as capital cities, with local and state government, that are already fine underpaying civil servants.
Don’t forget how the leadership in yhe government has been racist towards white men, and families for for many,many years now. It’s called affirmative action. Which mean simply that white meb and families get less
I think that the cause of this problem is probably CCP and other enemy countries that want to divide we the people , corruption in government is at a all time high. The answer is simple a poor American that is in need is a poor American in need. Give everyone affordable housing that needs and a living wage, and deport the foreigners, Now .
This is a quick fix to the problem whites and blacks need to stick together
Tennessee has regressive high sales tax, which disproportionately impacts people living paycheck to paycheck just to afford tax cuts for high earners.
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
Except it is often affluent people that know how to work hard by earning the skills and education that allows them to afford what the locals cannot 😅 so rather than work hard to better themselves, locals leave bitter because they expect the government to fix their problems
The Last Resort…”call some place paradise, kiss it goodbye”
All of those illegals are there
If you don’t own a house somewhere, you aren’t a resident you are a tenant. And you can be evicted.
The same pretty much applies to landowners also.
move to Kansas if you exclusivity
welcome to the club.
Nashville sucks
Nashville is wonderful, I wouldn’t come visit.
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.
The Conservative Republican Majority Legislature does Not hate Nashville. Nashville refuses to enforce State Laws against their Political Ideology. Nashville is a Radical Democrat Progressive City of Local Elected Officials. Nashville Mayor & others believe in DEI, Social Justice System & Defunding the Police & Increased Taxes.
Absolutely hilarious! 😂😂😂
People love to complain about capitalism but then do absolutely nothing about it.
More legal people than CA at least
Lived in Nashville for 2 years..couldn’t wait to leave
whys that
More jobs than people? record breaking tourist travel? thats what a boom town is?
It’s a great “visit” city for about 2 weeks but living their is not my cup of tea
Nashville is turning into Austin 😅
The Next Seattle 😂
join the club 😑😑
Stopped going downtown in 2017.
I live in nashville and I cannot afford to live here anymore. it’s insane and broadway area is getting way out of hand .
I didn’t hear any Nashville country accents in this segment, just new people from somewhere else.
Don’t let them turn your town liberal and end up invading and destorying america. Next thing you know the town is flooded with illegals and unlivable. It starts with a sanctuary city.
God Bless Nashville. Great Story..
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.
Nashville is a Sanctuary City & loves cheap labor.
I blame the hawk tuah girl 😂
its all about money and capitalism thats what holds society back
these corrupt mega corporations are just destroying america and society
Said the Delusional Communist
Conservative states just seem to be doing way better than liberal ones.
Only the selfish colonize the locals #lefties
expensive! … not Music to their ears😅😅😱😱
I mean everywhere else is expensive
Vanlife parking and utilities for all. Clearly folks want to live in multiple cities and should be able to do so.
Still way cheaper than in Toronto.
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
Blame hawk Tuah girl lol
No corporate greed and customer price gouging is making it expensive for locals… Nice try.
Corporate landlords and algorithm rent collusion.
As soon as the Big Tech companies show up, it’s only a matter of time before the problems begin.
This is what’s going to happen when we start bringing american companies back home
This is happening all over. Even Puerto Rico, the cheapest place to live in the United States, is becoming too expensive, even many mainlanders can’t afford it. Stop letting developers buy everything, and stop allowing rich people to keep getting richer. Literally, the only way to stop it.
Why is it so hard to find the fireworks in Nashville stream?🤦🏿♂️
Great Share .
Well. I guess most of America really doesn’t have talent.
If you don’t have assets then the cities aren’t incentivized to care about the plebs until you walk out of the city…
Well if the Democrats didn’t destroy California and New York we wouldn’t have this problem but Democrats mess everything up
I live in florida. my rent tripled after the plandemic
Sadly this has become an issue not just in the US but the entire world as well.
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
They all need to stop moving here. It’s pushing us locals out. Soon Nashville is gonna be crap.
Yall can thank the “huak tuah” girl
Not to mention the crime rate is going to increase.
The same people complaining now had similar people complaining before them. That’s life!
Not true.
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
I visited once, wasn’t that great. Just that strip of bars but the city didn’t really offer anything else
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.
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.
I blame the democrats
It’s not the popularity making it expensive, it’s the slimey greed of Real Estate Agents and landlords capitalizing on the rush of popularity. They need more regulation, they’ve proven nationwide they can’t fairly regulate themselves.
Want an example, WI businesses regulated worldwide milk prices for decades, you never heard of a price gouging scandal from them, because they self regulated for many many decades. Smart enough to milk the cow so everyone wins, not dumb, greedy and shortsighted enough to slaughter the cow. Simple. As. That.
Nashville, Florida on the way up, New York, Chicago, California on the way down….smh 👎
400k? lol A house is double that where I live! And that’s the bottom end. Shoot welcome to modern times. Gotta build more housing. Like everywhere else. But you won’t. We’ll vote in the same nimby lovers and you’ll be back here in two years watching a new video with the exact same message.
music just annoying noise.
Folks. It’s how things go. We feel it more because it’s happening in our time. I’m willing to bet every generation past has said the same thing about their cities.
Either deal with the change, or move elsewhere. If you move, then u can be part of the “problem” 😂
If they have that many people then taxes would be lower. ????
Not everyone gets a rollex, a Ferrari, of a house in Nashville… that’s capitalism…. it’s great until it isn’t….
Austin, Tx 2.0 – plus everyone is rich!!!
Just look at the stock market 🤷🏼♂️ buy buy buy never goes down 🚀
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
And it will be ruined just like Austin.
lets be clear- people are not moving to Nashville/Davidson county. They’re moving to the surrounding counties. And growth is SLOWING EVERYWHERE in the MSA!!! “More jobs than people”- what?! Is he referring to job openings? Wow this is terrible reporting. Just look at the employment data and housing data. This is a function of unprecedented COVID stimulus- it was a one time event, nothing else.
Anybody can be a “musician”
И все боты говорят «Biden Biden Biden Joe Biden did it».
Hawk Tuah girl made the Nashville Economy go up also now everyone’s been googling this city because of her ❤
Austin, Texas has entered the chat 😊