I'd rather live in the Sahara than to live in Memphis proper. I live in Tupelo right now. Just moved here a year ago. I've been to Memphis more times than I can count and hate it. But I've been to NY and hated it as well. Too much traffic and it takes forever to get anywhere. South Haven and Olive Branch are great little towns. They are growing because of the white flight from Memphis. I was in Horn Lake a few weeks ago and ate BBQ at the Memphis Barbeque Company.
My company's HQ in is Memphis. Used to love to go there for Beale St. and BBQ but they haven't had the annual meeting there for about four years. They don't say why but I suspect the crime has gotten too bad.
Third barstool from the right on the balcony at the Rum Boogie Café is mine.
About the only things left in Memphis are Beale St. (tourist trap), the convention center (where I'm at), and government buildings. The rest of it looks like Berlin in 1945.
Yankees who don't understand why people move slower in the South have never been to Memphis in August.
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