western ky small towns

[kygman]

Originally Posted by crawdad

almost 2 years...at 8760 hours in a year x almost 2 years thats about 17000 trips to Nashville from Hopkinsville

With a few stops in Clarksville to eat along the way! lol

[EclecticEars]

Like strong community pride with clean, well-kept neighborhoods, nice downtowns, beautiful scenery, decent parks, and not too far off the beaten path? Consider Murray, Cadiz, Princeton, Owensboro, Henderson.

Like a small city that has what you need and just a little bit more? Owensboro and Paducah fit the bill.

Want a suburban community adjacent or very nearby a larger community? Henderson and Owensboro are close to Evansville. Hopkinsville and Oak Grove are close to Clarksville, TN. Philpot, Whitesville and Maceo are very small bedroom communities near Owensboro. Reidland, Lone Oak and West Paducah are very small bedroom communities near Paducah, and Mayfield and Benton are small towns about 30 miles from Paducah.

Good public schools? Owensboro, Calhoun/Livermore, and Hawesville/Lewisport (all in O'boro Metro)have some of the best public schools in all of Kentucky, as well as some of the best rural public schools in all the South! Owensboro Catholic Schools, while obviously not public, are great, also! The only other town I might pick in WKY for having even halfway decent schools would be Murray.

I'd pick Owensboro, hands down, if I were to move back to my native Western Kentucky. In addition, there are three colleges (KWC, BU, and WKU-Owensboro,) two MBA programs, a large barbeque festival, the International Bluegrass Music Museum, a reasonably strong performing arts sector for its size, a regional airport offering cheap direct flights to Orlando, three Starbucks, three Krogers, two Super Walmarts (including the 20th largest in all of America, I believe, and the largest in KY,) and the state's largest Target. Oh, Cracker Barrel, Olive Garden, Texas Roadhouse...it's a comfortable small city and only 30 miles from Evansville.