re: What is yalls opinion of Memphis?

Memphis is 900 cops down from what's needed to police the city effectively.

What does the city do? Allocate $65 million to demolish and renovate a park that was already renovated a few years ago. Brilliant leadership.

Great BBQ but horrible place to live.

It's the same as any other city. The suburbs are nice and safe and east Memphis is ok too. There are places to go and places not to go. It's got a great music scene. The city is its own brand of weird and quirky.

I lived in Memphis for 6 years. It has some very rough areas and some awesome local spots. Slow pace of life, great food, lots of culture.

If something looks off/not safe, then turn around and go back to wherever you came from. Generally speaking you want to stay south of Jackson with Poplar running East and West as your guide. Stay in that horizontal zone and all is good. When you get far south (you typically have to do this to get to the airport), you’ll pass right by Orange Mound which is one of the roughest ghettos in the US.

Midtown, Mud Island, and Downtown were my favorite areas. There’s been some development since I lived there but that’s a good start. Go to the BBQ Shop for a BBQ sandwich and Central BBQ for BBQ Nachos.

Memphis tries so hard to be NOLA. But fails. It sucks, wouldn’t recommend moving there.

For the most part, it's a shite hole. That said, there are some really cool spots, similar to most large cities.

Despite all of it's shortcomings Memphis is crawling with hot southern belles. If you're into that sort of thing.

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Also, they have a fairly robust medical industry going on. You would think that and Fed Ex would bring some prosperity, but maybe it hasn't.

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There's a surprising amount of wealth in eastern Memphis, Germantown, and Collierville (also known as Fedex West, and Fedex East). I lived there for 4 years and I am still not sure where it came from. I concluded that there are a lot of early FedEx employees who have equity in the company and built massive homes off Johnson, Houston Levee, Shea, or Forest Hill to get away from the urban problems in Memphis.

Fed Ex's large HQ campus is out east off of Hack's Cross. Their IT Headquarters is in a sprawling office campus in Collierville. International Paper is also in a series of 4 towers in far eastern Memphis near the Germantown border. So even the rank and file at these massive Fortune 500 companies live in either east Memphis, Germantown, Collierville, or possibly Olive Branch because it's an easy commute to their offices. They rarely go west of Belle Meade unless it's to one of the Overton Square restaurants.

There are more Fortune 500 companies based in Memphis than in the entire states of Louisiana and Mississippi combined. They just aren't centered downtown like they are in other cities, and the city has grown out from the river in a lopsided way...similar to Baton Rouge. Autozone and Service Master are both downtown still. There's also St. Jude and the medical school nearby as well. But the money seems to have concentrated along Poplar/Union/Walnut Grove from there on east towards Collierville. The northern and southern parts of town are comparatively shitty.

One big problem Memphis has...it looks absolutely blighted from the perspective of people passing through on either I-40 or I-55. They don't plant a lot of trees or landscaping along the freeways like they do in Baton Rouge or Atlanta.

In the office of a CEO in Memphis and he said that Southaven was sketchy too.

City of Memphis is a bit more ghetto than New Orleans. The eastern suburbs are really nice and way better than any southshore Nola suburb. Being three hours away from the Ozarks and Appalachia plus no state income tax is nice too.