What you like about Greenback area, Loudon Cty (Maryville, Lenoir City: schools, taxes)

[bbkaren]

WD, your initial insight into Greenback is really helpful!

However, the rest of your post, I think, is sort of a global problem.

In terms of neighbors, I'm sure that's not a problem exclusive to Greenback--heck, I have similar problems here in NJ!

(p.s. Where'd you live in Roane that you didn't like, and why? Did you live there all your life? Just curious--we just bought on the Kingston/Loudon border...)

[WitchDoctor]

I was in Oliver Springs. It was too far from everything. I was also renting a house that was somehow surrounded by an entire family. We were definately outcasts there.

No big deal. Don't look back, that's my new motto.

[bbkaren]

OS does seem a little apart from the rest of the universe lol!

Well...best of luck to you, and thanks for your insight--

[piedmont]

Originally Posted by WitchDoctor

There must be at least eight railroad crossings within 5 miles of my house. They are all grade level crossings, so the train has to blow its horn for each one. Some nights, it seems like there is a train every ten minutes....

I live on ten acres. There is an old single wide about 200 yards from my house. The people that live in that house have no qualms about stepping out their back door and firing several rounds with a high powered rifle.

Hey there-

Thanks for the comments. I hear you on the train crossings---that is a real issue with the properties we've looked at down there.

The setting you've described actually sounds like most of what I've seen in Roane and Anderson counties. But I agree that it is also a common situation in rural areas in the U.S.

We've still investigating, still thinking.

[ddcortland]

Hi Witch Doctor...
I feel for you. The last place I lived, (here in TN) a guy had 60+ animals on 2 acres, I kid you NOT! Zebra, two camels, exotic cows, ducks, horses, goats, sheep, and a 5AM rooster, etc... I thought I had escaped that mentality. Instead, I found a NEW mentality.
Sooooo what I have done about the wild puppies in MY back yard is, I caught them and I'm kennel/paper/leash training them which is going fantasic, and then I will *adopt them out FOR FREE under my old but still standing rescue for horses. They are being wormed and will have shots and surgery to sterilize them before they go to a new owner. I think I have one already. YES you heard me... for FREE. Because that's the only way to do it in TN.
All paid for by MY HUSBAND! Poor guy. I better get an actual payroll job!!
Let me know if I can help you with your pups.
*(State charter also encompasses other animals in.)

People pop off guns pretty regularly around here too. I figure they are shooting strays... or eachother. For the longest time, I'd carry my 22 to the barn to do chores because of a particular dog that murdered our 16 year old cat the first night we were here. He also threatened my husband one night. NICE HMM? I'm over that now. Old FANG hasn't been around in a while.
As for your rifle guys: I'd just knock on their door and make their acquaintance, and ask what they are doing. Isnt' there some law about 500 feet from any occupied structure anyway? Same with the barking dog. Knock on their door. YOU DO have a right to a peaceful existence. I hope you find it. Much luck to you!!

Originally Posted by WitchDoctor

I've been here for just about a year. It's better than the place I lived in Roane County, but still not my cup of tea.

Maybe I should just make the best of it, build a potato gun type of device and start shooting the golf balls at the dogs. ;-)

[hiknapster]

Up in north Knox County, I don't know if there is an ordinance, but when my neighbor called the cops on a guy shooting off his back porch he was told that it was perfectly legal and to stop calling the police.

[East Tennesse Bound]

I think that my friend, who has property out in greenback, has mentioned that these types of neighbors exist. Exactly what I'm not looking for. But I must say, it is beautiful out there.

[bbkaren]

I daresay once again that, when one chooses an unregulated area to live in, one must take the bad with the good.

Our liberties are boundless and we can enjoy whatever things we enjoy, freely!

However, so can others.

Hence, you wind up with things happening around you that you might not appreciate or might be downright annoying or unsafe. But I think it sort of comes with the territory, kwim?

[hiknapster]

Originally Posted by bbkaren

I daresay once again that, when one chooses an unregulated area to live in, one must take the bad with the good.

Our liberties are boundless and we can enjoy whatever things we enjoy, freely!

However, so can others.

Hence, you wind up with things happening around you that you might not appreciate or might be downright annoying or unsafe. But I think it sort of comes with the territory, kwim?

I agree. In Cape Coral, Florida you couldn't park a pickup truck in your yard or have a trash can out. I never saw so much oppression in my life.

[bbkaren]

Yeah, that's how it is here. We get notes in our mailbox all the time. If our garbage cans aren't arranged a certain way on trash day, or if the recycling guys don't come and we leave the recycling out for them to come the next day.

It's so damn synthetic to live this way. "Keeping up appearances" on all fronts.