Tennessee, also known as the “Volunteer State,” is one of the fastest-growing states in the United States. Tennessee has a lot to offer to just about anyone with its rich history, an abundance of music and every type of outdoor activity you can imagine.

Tennessee is a great place to live, whether you’re looking for the busy city life of Nashville or the peace and quiet of a smaller suburb like Mount Juliet. Each of these top 11 best cities to live in Tennessee has something that will appeal to everyone.

Here are the 11 best places to live in Tennessee.

1. Nashville

Nashville, the capital and second largest city in Tennessee, is also called “Music City.” It is home to the Grand Ole Opry, Bluebird Café, Tootsie’s Orchid Lounge and the Ryman Auditorium, some of the most famous music venues in the world.

People from the east coast to the west coast are moving to Nashville every day, and the city has grown substantially in the past 10 years.

Nashville has one of the hottest housing markets in the U.S. The median price for a single-family home in Nashville is $341,700 and rising rapidly. Still, living in Nashville is relatively affordable when compared to other large cities in the U.S.

Sports are a big deal in Nashville. The Tennessee Titans are the NFL team and football fans from across Tennessee come to Nashville for the games. There is also a pro hockey team (the Nashville Predators), a pro soccer team (Nashville SC), and a minor league baseball team (the Nashville Sounds).

The city has a robust dining scene that features Southern food. The famous Nashville hot chicken, a spicy type of fried chicken, is a local favorite.

Broadway Street, located downtown, is known for its “honky tonks” — a name given to bars that feature country music. But Nashville celebrates all genres of music, not just country. Blues, jazz, rock and bluegrass can also be found here, performed by some of the most talented musicians in the world.

Nashville is home to notable historic sites, such as the Belle Meade Plantation, which is a Greek-revival-style plantation house and grounds that dates back to the 1840s. Andrew Jackson’s Hermitage is a plantation that was owned by the seventh president of the United States and is now a museum.

There are also several music-related museums, including the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, the Johnny Cash Museum and the Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum. One of the newest additions to the Nashville museum scene is the National Museum of African American Music. The museum’s exhibits celebrate more than fifty music genres that were created and influenced by African Americans, such as blues, jazz, gospel, R&B and hip hop.

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