Moving to Memphis from Detroit (Germantown, Collierville: apartments, crime, homes)

[Rick757]

Hi, I may be moving to Memphis very soon. I am looking at taking a job in Germantown and was wondering how far Germantown is to downtown Memphis. I really want to live in the city and just need a rough estimate of the distance and approximate drive time.
Memphis looks great and I can't wait to leave behind these Michigan winters.

[tigergal]

Originally Posted by Rick757

Hi, I may be moving to Memphis very soon. I am looking at taking a job in Germantown and was wondering how far Germantown is to downtown Memphis. I really want to live in the city and just need a rough estimate of the distance and approximate drive time.
Memphis looks great and I can't wait to leave behind these Michigan winters.

It would be about a half-hour commute from downtown to the heart of Germantown. Be prepared for Memphis summers which are the misery equivalent of Michigan winters. (Or so my best friend in Michigan tells me!)

[Pearlbob]

If you live downtown and drive to Germantown, you'll be going opposite of traffic in the AM and PM, so that is good. 30 min would be a minimal estimate though. Like mentioned, depends on where in Germantown you are going. It's quite spread out.

[pamela2695]

Memphis is worst than Detroit with crime and other things. Why in heaven would anyone move to Memphis. I lived there for 12 years and finally got away. Stay away from Memphis look at the news carefully.

[Brent85]

Come on Rick, don't leave Michigan

[Rick757]

Thanks everyone. Moderator cut: inappropriate A half hour doesn't seem too bad, it is about the same as my commute now.

[Dd714]

Originally Posted by pamela2695

Memphis is worst than Detroit with crime and other things. Why in heaven would anyone move to Memphis. I lived there for 12 years and finally got away. Stay away from Memphis look at the news carefully.

As bad as Memphis is, I can think of a many places worse (not crime, but just overall quality of life).

#1 by far would be Detroit.

[skibunny19]

I'm in northern Indiana and relocating to Memphis. I'm right there with you on getting away from these winters!!

[dxfret]

Its a LONG way from downtown Memphis out to Germantown no matter how you look at it. Unfortunately, that is the commute you have to do in order to live in a decent safer part of the metro area. Choose where you live very carefully, even in Germantown. Keep in mind that Germantown is not in the city proper. If you want a safe area, do not even think about living in the City of Memphis.

[lordchrome]

Wow, I’ve seen a lot in Memphis. I first lived in Memphis in 2001, and I came back for a short while in 2008. I saw more of the same-- it’s a transitional city for people of other states. I’ve lived in New York, California, MD, Virginia and Chicago. But I’ve never seen anything like Memphis. The violence has gotten worse, and watching the news when I was last down there I saw that a family of 6 was killed and the coroner’s pictures of this horror were posted on the web. I guess the lady’s face frozen in time from being strangled was too much. But when we first moved there the east side of Memphis was the place to be. We lived at Water Grove Apartments in Hickory Hill. But in 6 months the element began moving in and the baby ducks my daughter used to catch and release were getting clubbed and the area began turning dark (as in crazy). So Germantown and Collierville became the areas to move to. But soon these areas became overrun with crime and people began moving further away. When I visited some of the areas in now Collierville the white people looked at us funny like “why are they here at this playground playing” with their kids. But I understood their resentment. Driving through Memphis and seeing the state of blacks in Memphis: All you have to do is go to the Whitehaven area and or even the Hickory hill area which used to be nice, and I even felt uneasy using the bathrooms in McDonalds. Whitehaven looks like a war zone with tons of homeless wandering around and Thugs on most corners. I know those people going to see Elvis maybe ending up with more than an Elvis trip, especially if they get off the beaten path just by walking around the corner. I even saw steel bars around the outside of an air conditioner. What a wasteland. It seems the whites and affluent blacks have to keep building more homes and businesses further and further out from Memphis to Germantown to Collierville and beyond to Tipton and Fayette counties to whatever is next just to live like normal human beings. My advice is to get out unless you want substandard schools, ignorant customer service, crime constantly encroaching and children with tight clothes with glitter. It’s no place for a professional only ignorant ghetto fabulous and good old boys, black and white, who won’t give you the time of day and will top it off with the crab in the bucket mentality. And Mexicans: don’t come here-- they hate Mexicans even more than they hate each other.
Thank God we got out of there.
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