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Old 08-10-2007, 04:40 PM
 
Location: Columbia, MO
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My wife and I honeymooned in Pigeon Forge last September and I've wanted to move near the mountains ever since. Though I've lived in mid-MO for 21 years, I have never felt as at-home as I did in Tennessee. Must be something in the air.

Job opportunities in Columbia are dismal (re: we're surrounded by smaller towns with no jobs, thus swamped with outsiders coming in and taking all the work). The real estate market is just as bad. We have approximately 2,000 new homes in the city that have not yet been sold (on top of used homes), and it doesn't seem to be getting any better. The city is making it difficult for smaller business owners to buy land, while giving up everything to corporate giants that offer low wages. All this does is destroy the potential to sell all the homes here, and the lack of potential for a good job keeps new people from moving in.

Anyway...

From what I've read in this forum, the weather throughout the year sounds pretty much the same as MO, the job situation in Knoxville is somewhat better, real estate seems equal to or cheaper in Knoxville, and schools seem better (we have what are considered great schools because more students pass than not, but the teachers are terrible and the system is biased to the left).

One thing you definitely have that we don't are real mountains... and my mountain bike is drooling at the thought!

If anyone on here is from the mid-MO area, I'd like to hear your opinions of Knoxville vs. Columbia. Any insight about the city in general would be great.

--Aaron
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Old 08-12-2007, 08:58 AM
 
Location: Lee's Summit, MO
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Just moved here from St. Joe, and the only place I'm interested in moving back to in Missouri is the Lake of the Ozarks.

The weather here thus far has reminded me a lot of KS/MO, but without the thunderstorms.

I would not say housing is cheaper because most of the houses have no storage, and no basements. This was the most frustrating thing about the move here.

I didn't realize Columbia had so many problems.
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