I've always considered Chatt the type of city you move to when you ready to settle down. It's a tier below the big cities, but you a hop and a skip away from em with Nashville 2hrs always, ATL 2, Knox 2 , Memphis bout 5, Charlotte bout 5, if you have an appetite for it. But it's just enough to do if you have kids or what not. Not much of a night life to speak of, it's a couple clubs but nun crazy.
As for crime, long as you got good sense you'll be aite. shyt usually go on in the same concentrated areas.
Entertainment, lol. Like I said , the major cities right round the corner so that's where the entertainment at. It was a big deal that Webbie was here a few wks back ...with some fake designers on

. Shout-out to Savagelife tho.
Chatt chill. It's opportunities here to make yo bread and stack cuz the cost of living ain't much. It's home to me tho so I like it.
I ont know much bout West TN. Really shouldn't be out there unless you got folks out that way anyways.
Nashville, I love Nashville. I pull-up at least once a year. That city super vibrant and lively It's always something going on. It just cost like a bytch to stay out there, but is plenty of a black presence out there. Loads of transplants.
Knoxville, trash.
All in all, I wouldn't call TN a rest haven for black people necessarily, but I'm sure it's worse states for us in comparison. City living at least. I stay out of them hick towns