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.
“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.