"yeah, and i'll totally look up your facebook sometime! seeya later dude!"

* artificial blonde chick meanders back into the swarth of "life" that locals call "the club" *

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Memphis is awesome.

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I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

Memphis is pretty rough outside of the tourist-approved bubble, that's for sure. But the good parts are awesome. Stax and Sun are must-visits for music fans.

I can't remember where I had it but I had a catfish poorboy that just made my brain float away on a cloud.

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Good to hear that from you Curious and Favre Fan, I love Nashville way more.

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Nashville seems fun, but I like blues and soul way more than country, so I'm pretty sure I'd still prefer Memphis.

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You certainly have a way with words. The CSFMB enigma.

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yeah for real dude, the closest i've ever come to having a catfish poorboy in memphis was having a west side crack dealer try to serenade me into his bed with a packed crackpipe.

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The BBQ is Memphis is way better.

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It's funny you say that, because the few Memphis natives I know all swear by Tops and look at the Rendezvous as a place to take out-of-towners, sort of like the way Chicagoans think of Uno.

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Don't take it personally.

On several road trips to New Orleans, I have seen Memphis from the highway. It looks like a dreadful place. Almost depressing.

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Pizza Hut>Uno's. That is how much I despise Uno's.

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They have turned it into that a little bit, but I remember when it was much smaller and for dry rub ribs it didn't get any better. I hope it hasn't turned in to that, it has been a while since I was back in Memphis, in Nashville a lot, just don't get over to Memphis.

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in those areas it's like the parliament funkadelic once famously crooned, you can dance on the water but not get wet.

but yeah swimmers tend to stick together cuz holy shit have you seen those girls on the swim team? HELL YEAH BRO!!!!!!

(can't have psychoalphadiscobeta without a little psycho amirite?)

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Oh, it's definitely crumbling, but it's crumbling with character, you know? It makes you sad and makes you wish for something better. It's basically a smaller New Orleans with a slow descent rather than an overnight collapse. They've both focused their efforts on making a square mile or two presentable and letting the rest go to shit. St. Louis has not only seen its best days but is a lot harder to romanticize, though I guess the Landing is supposed to be kind of cute.

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i'm pretty sure if chicks at the bar/club could review me on yelp this is what they'd say =D

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Just did Cubs Cardinals. They have done a nice job around new Busch. The Landing is fun. But I get your point. The problem with most midwest cities is the major loss of population since 1950. The metro areas have spread out too much.

St Louis had a population of 856k in 1950 and has 318k today. The same thing goes for most other midwest cities. When a city loses that many people, it has to go into decline. The tax base alone is eroded.

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What really hurts their tax base is that St. Louis City doesn't belong to St. Louis County. Baltimore has the same problem. Kind of makes you fear what would happen to Chicago if the northwest suburbs had left Cook County. It wouldn't be outright devastation, obviously, but the city could take a hit.

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