Small Town Economic Development
Texas, Tennessee, or Kentucky?
My picks: First, Texas. Second (by a longshot, but I still love it,) Tennessee.
Texas: some of the friendliest people anywhere; huge, thriving cities (D/FW, Austin, San Antonio, Houston,) great job market, eclecticism in Austin, history in San Antonio and Ft. Worth, beaches, mountains, prairies, deserts, corn nuggets, Houston Astros, a great state! And the women…wow!
Tennessee: laid-back, people are shy at first but easy to warm up to you, beautiful mountains, music scene in Nashville, the bars and blues in Memphis, Fort Donelson, nothing like the smell of a pine forest on a rainy day! I honestly think it’s the most beautiful of the three states!
Kentucky, while beautiful, is no hotbed of economic growth and progessive thinking. The politicians have helped to prohibit growth and development. People are, by and large, very snooty and hateful; small towns are very sheltered and closed off to “the outside.” I’m a native who has NEVER felt comfortable or at home there.
Tennessee.
Texas is hot.
I’ve never been to Kentucky.
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Professional Real Estate Development: The ULI Guide to the Business, Second Edition $66.01 This basic primer covers the nuts and bolts of developing multifamily, office, retail, and industrial projects. Small-scale examples are ideal for anyone new to real estate development…. |
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How to Open a Financially Successful Bed & Breakfast or Small Hotel: With Companion CD-ROM $15.99 This comprehensive handbook with companion CD-ROM will clearly demonstrate how to set up, operate and manage a financially successful bed & breakfast or small hotel. Whatever your reason for wanting to open a bed and breakfast, keep in mind that at it takes more than dreams and rooms to achieve success, it is a business that must show a profit. This book will separate the romantic notions of ownin… |
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Small, Gritty, and Green: The Promise of America’s Smaller Industrial Cities in a Low-Carbon World (Urban and Industrial Environments) $12.45 America’s once-vibrant small-to-midsize cities–Syracuse, Worcester, Akron, Flint, Rockford, and others–increasingly resemble urban wastelands. Gutted by deindustrialization, outsourcing, and middle-class flight, disproportionately devastated by metro freeway systems that laid waste to the urban fabric and displaced the working p… |
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92Y – Magic Johnson with Stephen J. Adler: From Baller to Business Man (November 20, 2008) $4.95 … |
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92Y – Magic Johnson with Stephen J. Adler: From Baller to Business Man (November 20, 2008) $9.95 … |