Nashville Music City USA

But seriously, Nashville Tennessee is a great place to live. You don't have to be walking down music row to find great sounds coming from Nashville's highways and biways. Music is in every brick of every building here. It flows through town like the Cumberland River. It just is. Nashville is also a young vibrant city full of great schools and great people where the streets are safe and your neighbors know how to be friendly. Best of all, it's affordable to live here. Be sure to check out our Hendersonville listings, or click here to view more Nashville real estate.

Top 10 reasons to move to Nashville

1. This is a world class city with a small town feel


2. No income tax. Seriously. None.


3. You can still buy a nice home for less than 200K


4. Cost of living is about 10% lower than the national average


5. Music - Nashville is a major recording center and hub for the music industry with four major record labels located here and over 20,000 residents making a music related living.


6. Education: There are 7, yes 7, great universities in Nashville: Vanderbilt, Fisk, Tennessee State, Meharry Medical, American Baptist, Lipscomb and Belmont.


7. Easy to visit the family! Tennessee is bordered by 8 states and half of all Americans live within 650 miles of Nashville.


8. Genuine bona fide honky tonks


9. Southern hospitality


10. The Tennessee Titans. Ahem.

1. Ryman Auditorium: The acoustically divine "Mother Church of Country Music" that was home to the Grande Ole Opry for over 30 years. Initially known as the The Union Gospel Tabernacle, the building was built by rowdy riverboat captain Thomas Green Ryman in 1892. Ryman, who came to Nashville to cause trouble during the services of Reverend Sam Jones, ended up joining the flock and financing the building.


2. Belle Meade Plantation: The Belle Meade plantation was originally a 5400 acre equestrian estate famous for breeding Kentuky Derby winners. Most of the acreage was sold at the turn of the century and developed into Belle Meade Park, one of Nashville's wealthiest suburbs.


3. The Parthenon: This amazing structure is a full-sized tribute to the ancient Greek original. Good thing too, because the original won't last forever. A centerpiece for the Tennessee Centennial Exposition in 1897, it's now been added to the national register of historic places and is home to the Nashville Art Museum.


4. The Hermitage: Former ante-bellum plantation home of Andrew Jackson. Jackson's story is a classic rags to riches tale in which a penniless orphan makes good through land speculation and politics, eventually building his own opulent Greek Revival home and becoming the country's 7th president. Little known fact: Andrew Jackson once killed a man over a horse bet.

Here is some pictures of the sites you can find around Nashville and surrounding areas. Nashville has always been quite the photogenic place, here you can view some of the landscape and landmark photos I have taken. Enjoy!

Nashville has long been a major music recording and production center, even a part of town is often referred to as "Music Row" due to four major record labels having office's in the same area.

The Signature Tower will start construction in 2009, it will be the seventh largest sky scraper in the United States. One of the largest sky scrapers located outside of Chicago or New York, the building will stand 1000 feet above ground.

Nashville features a strong health care industry, which injects $18.3 billion / year into the local economy.

Nissan North America moved its corporate headquarters to Nashville, with its permanent headquarters to be Franklin TN. Nissan also operates the largest North American manufacturing plant in Smyrna TN.

• Nashville was first originally called Fort Nashborough and was founded in 1779, the town was named after an American Revolutionary War hero Francis Nash.
  
  


• Nashville Film festival takes place yearly during the first week of April.


• Nashville has the United States largest population of Kurdish people (11,000).


• Was nick named "Music City, USA" by a radio announcer in the 1950's.


• Nashville is host to the GMA (Christian and Gospel) music awards as well as the CMA (Country) music awards.


• Centennial Park features a full scale replica of the original Greek Parthenon, and WIFI internet free of charge.


• Estimated population around 613,856 in 2006, over the 13 surrounding counties the combined total is 1,486,695.


• First major city in the US to form a metropolitan government.


• Nashville often has long springs and autumns, making these seasons especially long for allergy sufferers.


• Nashville has more then 700 churches.
  
  


If that wasn't enough, here is a list of our Top 10 Most Famous Nashvillian's



1. Johnny Cash


2. Bettie Page


3. Jimi Hendrix


4. Willie Nelson


5. Shania Twain


6. Hank Williams


7. Al Gore


8. Donna Summer


9. Oprah Winfrey


10. Jesse James