Might be moving to Nashville in about 6 Months

You want in the city, able to walk to stuff, AND cheap. Those can be hard shoes to fill, but here are the neighborhoods I would recommend:

East Nashville: Older part of town, most of the houses were built in the 1920s or 1930s. Had been run-down for a while, has made a huge comeback since the stadium was built (this is the area where the Titans stadium is). Lots of cool indy bars and restaurants. Depending on exactly where you are and how far you want to walk, you may also be able to walk to the Titans stadium or downtown.

12th Ave South: Much like East Nashville, but on the south side of downtown, not quite as big, hasn’t gentrified quite as much, but also never fell quite as far to start with. 12th Ave itself has a number of bars and restaurants, it’s also within walking distance of the Belmont University area. Speaking of that…

Belmont Blvd: There are 2 colleges on this road, Belmont University and David Lipscomb University. Therefore, there are a bunch of bars, restaurants, and coffeeshops. Jimmy works at Belmont. A former Top Chef contestant has 2 places side-by-side on this road. (And his parents have a super-cheap but quite good Oriental food cafeteria and market across the street).

The upside: All of these neighborhoods have a number of independent, locally owned places to eat, drink, shop, and listen to music within walking distance. All of them are within 3 or 4 miles of downtown and near interstates if you don’t happen to work downtown. While they are all gentrified or gentrifying, they do all have cheap living options available.

The downside: The cheap living options are cheap because they are in disrepair and/or near the projects (East side and 12th Ave S) or because they cater to college students (Belmont). The nicer places, closer to the center of these districts, are now much more expensive than they once were.

The other downside: All of the places for rent in these areas are rental houses or houses that have been turned into apartments. No apartment complexes, so websites like apartments.com don’t list. Your best bet is to troll Craigslist and respond to openings, there’s no centralized listing site for them that I am aware of.

I lost my car to that storm, was literally ten feet away from the church parking lot I was going to leave my car in and walk to my house…ended up sliding right into a ditch with my car nearly vertical. Did make the news though, ha.

and yeah, I know what you mean about the weather. Wasn’t there a 30 degree change in temperature a few weeks ago?

oh so good…