After I moved out of my parents house over twenty years ago, my parents moved the rest of the family to Clarksville TN for about 2 or 3 years. One of my brother's graduated high school there.
Visited them a few times while they were there and can't say that I remember too much about it. The 101st Airborne had just returned from an Iraq deployment, so every restaurant was packed; had to wait to get a table on a weeknight at a Rafferty's, a chain I've never since seen again after moving West. And with so many soldiers returned with deployment money, the auto lots were moving cars fast.
I find Eastern Tennessee to be much more scenic than Clarksville or the rest of the state, and Knoxville is about the nicest mid-size city in America.