Prime spot to get some damn good barbeque, or any kind of food for that matter. Memphians know and love their beers too. Spot where Jim Jarmusch filmed the awesome Mystery Train. Wild Horses by the Rolling Stones was recorded here. So was Pleased to Meet Me by The Replacements. And so was Washing Machine by Sonic Youth.

I like my home. Sometimes.

Memphis is also, from my perspective, the most ghetto city around, beating even Chicago. Gold teeth and (until far too recently) gheri curls all over the place. A dude in college told me that Memphis was an acronym which stood for Making easy money pimping hoes in style. But the barbecue is the bomb.

I find it funny that robwicks mentions Chicago and Memphis as two of the most ghetto cities around. As Chicago was the Microsoft internal codename for Windows 95, Memphis was the codename for Windows 98.

Memphis, Tennessee
Population (1998 estimate): 603,507
Density: 2,142 people per square mile
Population change (1990-1998): -2.4%
Land Area: 281 square miles
Jobs: 306,224
Unemployment: 4.5%
Per Capita Income: $27,511

Sources: Bureau of the Census, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Bureau of Economic Analysis