Toured some of Nashville and surrounding areas this past week for possible relocation and now am more confused than before the visit. Kind of made a circle around the city, stopped at various towns, talking to some of the locals. Started in Franklin and went clockwise to Murfreesboro. Had expected to find a less frantic breed of city mouse here, but it seemed to be the same as other cities of it's size. For example, shoppers and drivers were less than courteous. I felt like I was the only person using a turn signal or politely allowing those exiting a building to go first or holding doors open for the person following us in a building. No worse than any other place, but just not as laid back as we had expected. Granted, this is a small glimpse in a small amount of time and we realize that it's not fair to lump everything in this one quick trip.
However....the farther out we went, the more laid back and polite things became. But the down side of that was the long commute to the city for work and play and the lack of work and play in these smaller communities. And the cost of housing is not dramatically less than in Nashville, either. We are middle income empty nesters and are targeting the below 200K markets. We are not fancy folks, do not need a new house or car, but we do want a decent place to live. Am RN with 10 years before retirement, so need to be within reasonable commute to a hospital.
Have been reading and paying attention to the postings here, and had really hoped that Nashville would fit our needs, but not as sure now. We will come back in a few months and check out some more areas. It is a very pretty area of TN, and we would like to see more. There appear to be some very nice communities in several of the surrounding towns, but we fear that they are above our budget. Please, no offense meant by any of my thoughts posted here, we might be looking for something that doesn't exist anymore anywhere. The problem may lie with us and not the city of Nashville. It's probably hard to find anyplace in our price range in any city. We will look some more in the Nashville area in the near future. Thanks for allowing me to share my thoughts.
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Nashville trip-a tale of two cities?
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