hey YouTube shouts calmly here I just wanted to make a video sharing about my experiences in Tennessee I wanted to share like why did I leave Tennessee and where I ever returned so I love Tennessee primarily because I
was struggling with my faculty I was stagnating and just spinning my wheels I basically realized my long term relationship wasn't working out I realized that I didn't want to go to law school and kind of see especially just
because I knew that would mean I would be graphically limited to Tennessee forever another reason for me big reason is allergies for those who don't know Nashville is known to be basically a nickname is the allergy Bowl this
is the way the city is situated for lack of a better term basically allergens collect an area and especially when I was eating a more high carbohydrate diet I would get basically immobilized for a week at a time
Bude allergy problems and sinus infections actually right before I moved away I saw a dentist because I felt severe pain right in here and he said I got the best news for you that I could come up with
it's actually elderly you don't have a dental problem and that was a big sign for me check out some other places if not in the world at least Seattle spades another big reason for me to have loved Tennessee
is because I kind of got the impression there is a certain amount of professional stagnation in Tennessee compared to larger markets that's not to say you can't be successful in Tennessee atrophies really favorable toward entrepreneurs but I wasn't
a hundred percent sold on whether or not I wanted to be an entrepreneur and if you're not an entrepreneur in Tennessee my concern is just that you're you're gonna struggle in certain ways it doesn't mean people I guess
it doesn't mean people can't be freshly successful but there are different factors that came into play when I started to think about my long term featuring and obvious one is that majority of people live on the west or
the east coast and those tend to have also many of the largest cities and in my opinion more opportunity depending on what you're trying to do kind of to follow up on that because my friend was not from
Tennessee and I century you know great Brown I felt like I was never going to be able to connect into the good-old-boy system I had the impression that I would always struggle in different avenues just because I wasn't
as well connected as a lot of other people where their family maybe pretty successfully locally whereas I didn't really know my dad my mom passed away a long time ago so I felt like some of the advantages that
people have living in Tennessee or growing up with Tennessee I didn't really apply to me another big reason is Tennessee politics so essentially Tennessee is pretty conservative and I look at myself identified with most more so than any
other category with centrism you know the idea that progressives and conservatives have some good ideas and oftentimes a solution to a lot of different problems is right down the middle and so essentially in Tennessee almost all decisions have
to be on the right side of the spectrum so regardless of the issue the conservatives are gonna win it's a little bit different within the city limits of Nashville but Nashville is only so big and if you wouldn't
I see if you even if you look at Nashville you're eventually going to have to with fairly conservative people nothing you know I don't have an inherent distaste for conservative people but I found that some are anti-immigration whereas
I'm a first or second generation American depending on how you look at it so I'm actually tend to have more moderate views on immigration secondly marijuana that's a big issue where I tried to work with a Tennessee normal
for several leaders trying to change the laws and I felt like our efforts were not really taken seriously because it's considered to be a progressive idea that only more liberal places are going to be tolerant of so I
felt like the strong conservatives and intensity even though it is somewhat changing as more people from other areas moved there I still think it remains an issue where once you've lived there traveled in other areas it tends to
get a little bit more I think I think part of the reason why it doesn't bother as many people in Tennessee as it should is just because a lot of people kirlyam work by country areas are not as
well traveled and don't have as much interest in the world outside of Tennessee it's not to call them small-minded we all have different preferences and I think that that's what's beautiful about America is that I can't live in
places like Colorado or California as long as I can't work hard enough to afford these places these are just some reasons why I wanted to share about why I'm no longer living in Tennessee you know so that I
guess the next question would be would I return I would consider it one day but it would probably not necessarily be standard just because of my aspirations as far as career goes there is a software engineering love development
scene in Nashville but it won't ever compare to the Bay Area basically berry as the center for that United States and quite possibly the center of the entire world as far as having opportunities for mentorship from people with
more experience in the field certainly high cost of living is factoring into my decision as to whether I want to stayed and here in the Bay Area forever but I think that there's merit or seeking a location that
is focused around your discipline whatever it may be in life for example if you're into higher culture Tennessee might arguably be a better place than California for agriculture in there that we've had a lot of problems with drought
here in California that's going to remain an issue for a long time in the future other reasons why I think Tennessee's not a bad place to live I don't want to make people think oh these are all reasons
why you should just avoid it one most employees cost to live in Tennessee aside from Nashville has a generally reasonable cost of living and you're not going to pay as much in Tennessee as you are on the east
coast to the west coast for rent things like rent groceries entertainment etc I'm a bright Nashville regularly I would see concerts for free or like $5 whereas most things I've noticed here in California they want at least 10
to 20 dollars from you if not 40 or 50 - God enjoys something there of course expensive exclusive or premium events in Nashville that don't follow this rule and charge a lot more but I felt like even now
Nashville has a stronger blue-collar vibe than most any city I've been to on the west or east coast especially in 2018 this might have been true 50 years ago places like a hundred years ago places like Portland Oregon
or like you know Boston may have had larger manufacturing sectors but a lot of these jobs nowadays have been exported to other countries because it's cheaper to hire people in those countries they work for less money and often
have a lower quality of life compare the United States and so they have greater drive to change their circumstance I think that sometimes in America we have such a comfortable lifestyle compared to a lot of other people that
we can become complacent with some of the problems in our society another reason that I like Tennessee is what I mentioned before the blue-collar scene I think that there are a lot of everyday people in Tennessee are relatively
down-to-earth and don't feel like they need to be a certain way or certain somebody to impress you I think sometimes that we deal with on the coasts this super ambitious type behavior where people are so interested in achievement
or success that they're willing to shape themselves in that pursuit of that goal where's in Tennessee there are a lot of people that are like I like my life I like the way things are going I don't need
any more than I have to be happy where's I don't get that is that vibe is much on the west coast there are drawbacks to have living in a career focused area to the extent that that the barrier
is career-focused [Music] another reason a sort of another reason that I do like Tennessee and Miss it at times is how close it is to so many different destinations it's usually you know it's within eight hours of Chicago
northern Florida Atlanta is like four hours away Memphis is like three from Nashville let's see where else about eight hours to New Orleans nine hours to Kansas City about four and a half to st. Louis three do knocks
fill roughly 8 hours to most parts of Ohio another eight hours to Detroit so you have all these different things infinite hours whereas here in San Francisco if I think of cities within eight hours you can't quite make
it to Portland Oregon in eight hours so really Los Angeles San Diego in the Reno Tahoe area alongside Sacramento those four options are your main choices and I would somewhat argue that the culture of those places has more
in common with the area than the other East Coast cities I mentioned have in common with Nashville like if I go to Chicago I feel like I'm in a different part of the country whereas if I go to
San Diego I still have that California buy even though San Diego and San Francisco are very different you still have that underlying California vibe where you've got the beach culture and you got the surf culture but anyway I
just wanted to share some of my thoughts on why I left kind of see and why and you know what I returned I wouldn't mind making a thought to this video so if you have any opinions maybe you
you know love Tennessee and you wouldn't leave it for any reason or you don't like Tennessee glad you laughter you're planning to leave let me know your opinions in the comments I want to know what you think thank
you for watching until next time
