ARCHITECTURAL DIGEST: Forget Nashville—This Tennessee City Is on the Rise: Knoxville is quickly becoming a major destination in the Volunteer State. Knoxville has a lovely redeveloped downtown, inexpensive and nice suburbs, low crime, low taxes (especially in the county — taxes in the City of Knoxville are actually kinda high), nice people, and beautiful lakes and mountains all around. You’re welcome to move here, so long as you don’t move from some benighted blue state and immediately start agitating for the policies that ruined things where you came from.