I don't know too much about TN but am preferential towards small towns, rivers, mountains, rail service, and concentrated downtowns.
One town has beat Google fiber to the punch with socialized internet:
Chattanooga's super-fast, publicly-owned Internet - May. 20, 2014
(That may be a good or bad thing.)
There are also 3 hospitals for a city of 173,000
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chattanooga,_Tennessee
"In 2008, Erlanger was named one of the nation's "100 Top teaching hospitals for cardiovascular care" by Thomson Reuters."