Mayor: Poor TN farming community will suffer if feds buy up land

Tennessee Watchdog ^ | November 8, 2013 | Chris Butler

[Coldwater Creek]

MEMPHIS IS STILL A GREAT PLACE TO LIVE AND RAISE CHILDREN. WE JUST DO IT DIFFERENTLY THAN WE USED TO. I REALLY WISH THAT YOU WOULD QUIT BASHING OUR TOWN, MR. EX-PAT.

[Coldwater Creek]

Steve Cohen represents a very small part of Tn.

[AlexW]

“MEMPHIS IS STILL A GREAT PLACE TO LIVE AND RAISE CHILDREN.”
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You must work for the Chamber of Commerce, haha.
I know it still has some fine qualities, but it is nothing like the city that I grew up in, and it has lost much of its great distinctions. From what my friends still living there tell me, I would no longer recommend it for raising a family.
Have you seen she statistics?
“The city violent crime rate for Memphis in 2010 was higher than the national violent crime rate average by 281.88% and the city property crime rate in Memphis was higher than the national property crime rate average by 112.63%.”

http://www.cityrating.com/crime-statistics/tennessee/memphis.html#.UoFXxCf85R0

My daughter, single, owns a home in midtown, and my next door neighbors from here in the Philippines, Philippine wife/American husband, just visited her yesterday.

[familyop]

Thank you.

[Coldwater Creek]

I have lived in Memphis for 43 years. Yes, it has changed, but so has every other city in the world. My children and grandchildren (7) have had a great life, great friends, a great cultural heritage, great advanced education and great churches. We do not live in fear. We go downtown and midtown often. Just this week end we took relatives from out of state down to the Cooper Young area for a Christmas open house at Palladio’s. The place was packed My granddaughter is a professional artist who gets commissions from downtown residents all the time.

If Memphis is so bad, why is your child still living here? Maybe she should spread out into the burbs and see how the average Memphian lives.

[AlexW]

I did not mean to imply that it is a disaster, or cesspool, but it has declined considerably since the black population went from 40% to 60%.
Yes, I am sure that the upscale entertainment areas such as Overton Square and Cooper-Young are prospering, but I fear that the overall quality of life there will continue to decline as more of the white population retreats to suburban towns, but that is true for many cities, such as Atlanta, which thrives only because it is landlocked by suburban municipalities. Atlanta proper has less then 500,000 population.

By the way, is it true that the great MLG&W was broken up and sold off to companies outside of the state? That would be sad, as it was considered to be as good as any in the country.
What happened to the National Firefighters Convention?

Remember, I flew out for the last time in Jan. of 2009

[Coldwater Creek]

I know nothing about the Firefighters Convention. MLGW is still owned by the City of Memphis. At one time Hernendon wanted to sell parts off, but that didn't fly.

[AlexW]

“MLGW is still owned by the City of Memphis. At one time Hernendon wanted to sell parts off, but that didn’t fly. “
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That is good to hear. The MLGW is one of the crown jewels.