Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by atwebb 4624 days ago
Quite insightful but no, compared to many other conservative cities and it's seems to be leaning away from it's conservative past. For example, there's still tons of churches but some of the biggest and most popular are the newer,relaxed ones.
1 comments
heartbreak 4624 days ago
Do you live in Nashville? Nashville is progressing faster than Knoxville, but far slower than Chattanooga. It's a complex situation, and I don't think you can boil it down to comparing the churches. As far as being a "sleeper tech city", I've yet to see any indication that Nashville is on the verge of a high tech or startup renaissance. If you want to see a traditionally conservative, "sleeper tech city" look no further than Greenville, SC. Greenville has recently (in the last 7 years) entered a rapid development phase with numerous tech startups, co-work facilities, etc. Have you ever considered moving to Greenville? I'd move to Greenville over Nashville any day. OR I could start a company in Maynardville - farming as a service or some such thing.
link
RMacy 4624 days ago
I live in Nashville and I have lived in Chattanooga and I definitely don't share your sentiment. Maybe it's not obvious to you, but there are some phenomenal happenings here.

"If you want to see a traditionally conservative, "sleeper tech city" look no further than Greenville, SC. Greenville has recently (in the last 7 years) entered a rapid development phase with numerous tech startups, co-work facilities, etc"

Nashville has checked all of those boxes.

Did I mentioned we have an incredibly active developer community here? Its not all big healthcare companies running Java & .Net, for instance, there is Emma (http://myemma.com/), Stratasan (http://www.stratasan.com/), The Skillery (http://www.theskillery.com/), Wannadao (https://www.wannadolocal.com/), inquicker (https://inquicker.com/), Moontoast (http://www.moontoast.com/), etc

We have events like coderfaire, hacknashville, hack-a-day, nashville code brigade, nashville user group leadership (group), etc

We also have very active user groups for functional programming, dynamic languages, ruby, php, python, javascript, flash, etc

We have tons of co-working locations, not going to name them all.

Not to mention that a ton of large SV types have remote workers here (I'm looking at you Github, SurveyMonkey, etc).

We have an incubator (http://jumpstartfoundry.com/).

What makes a city a "sleeper tech giant"?

link