At least, according to an article at Portfolio.com seemingly designed to generate web traffic from local news stories and blog posts just like this one. Portfolio used a "Fun Index" to rank America's 100 largest metropolitan areas. Knoxville finished 83rd, just behind San Antonio and ahead of Baton Rouge.
Shopping ("Retail trade establishments"): 24th
Here are the seven categories Portfolio evaluated, and Knoxville's rank in each:
Culture ("Performing arts companies, museums and historical sites"): 40th
Low-Impact Sports ("Golf courses and country clubs, marinas and bowling centers"):
Popular entertainment (movie theaters, sports arenas, amusement parks): 79th
Food and Drink ("Full-service restaurants and drinking places"): 82nd
High-Impact Sports ("Skiing facilities, fitness centers and recreational sports centers"): 90th
Gambling: 92nd
Honestly, we're not qualified to say whether Knoxville is really a worse eat-and-drink town than, say, Sacramento (48th overall), or whether there are really that many more golf courses and bowling alleys in Boise (73rd). But on the "high-impact sports" front, we wonder if anybody noticed that for whatever we lack by way of skiing and fitness centers, we do have a pretty extensive inventory of naturally occurring Stairmasters around here. They're called mountains.
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