re: Would you rather go to Tulane or Vanderbilt?

Well traveling for work I always made sure to google the hip neighborhoods where locals congregate. Considering I end with a bunch of down time I usually avg 2 (try to make them unique type) museums per city. So I'll usually do dive bars, museums, hot restaurants. I'll study over google maps and get a good lay of the land and utilize a city's public transportation along with uber.

And for the most part in a week i get a good idea of the feeling of a city considering I'm actually interested in urban centers, the demography and anthropology and why the place is even set where it is.

Over all I found Nashville to be lacking. There is some neat neighborhoods but they don't have as much flavor as they would like
to think they do and some aren't as accessible a and walkable as they would like to think. I also found a lot of the people I met repping Nash didn't even live in Nash.

I don't know. I will agree with the other thread that Nashville may be a lot like Austin but in one way, it's overrated. Not that they aren't cool places, it's just that many people put them way too high on a pedestal making them overrated by definition.