[AlexW]

“MEMPHIS IS STILL A GREAT PLACE TO LIVE AND RAISE CHILDREN.”
________________________________________________
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.

[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.