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Need a side job? The 10 best cities for 'gig economy' workers

The gig economy has become typified by piecemeal jobs found on platforms like Uber and Etsy, but that's just part of a larger sea change in the American labor force: 54 million workers considered themselves freelancers last year. Here are the 10 US cities with the most opportunities for them, according to Thumbtack.

5. Nashville, Tenn.

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The riverboat General Jackson makes its way along the Cumberland River in downtown Nashville, Tenn.

Nashville's population climbed by 5.9 percent between 2000 and 2010, and the US Census estimates that Nashville grew by another 6.7 percent in 2015. In early February of this year, financial services firm UBS announced that it would be moving 2,500 jobs to Poland, India, China -- and Nashville, thanks the relatively low cost of operating there. UBS has created almost 500 jobs in Nashville since 2014, and plans to add almost 100 more. It’s not just jobs from major companies like UBS that are experiencing real growth in Nashville, though. AngelList lists more than 412 startups in Nashville that are hiring.

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