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So people often ask me if I like living in Nashville.

You know, the music and the culture and the people.

And to be honest, you guys know we live on a farm.

We live outside of Nashville proper.

That is a very intentional choice by us.

But these days I kind of struggle to answer the question because I don't really know what Nashville's identity is anymore.

And truth be told, I don't even know if Nashville knows what its identity is,

which seems to be a growing trend for these rapidly growing cities in the Sunbelt region, like Denver or Dallas, Austin, Houston,

all of those types of cities, or maybe it's just a growing trend for Americans in general.

Do we actually have a culture? Do we have unified values? Or are we just getting steamrolled by

mass migration and corporate interests? Because I sit here in Nashville, in my own experience, I travel around to different cities

where I'm doing shows or going on podcasts or Alex and I are traveling.

But I just see all of these cities that I feel should be distinct become homogenous caricatures

of themselves, where everything from the architecture to the businesses themselves have

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