Moving from California to Tennessee (Knoxville, Green Hill: foreclosed, renting, crime rate)

[hey teach]

Consider Fayetteville, TN. Nice small town just north of Huntsville, AL. Where the is a division of Lockheed-Martin. Fayetteville is a bedroom communitIy for Huntsville and an easy commute. The schools are excellent and the housing and property taxes are affordable. If you want small town life, Fayetteville is a good choice. Huntsville, AL provides many job opportunities for anyone in almost any type of engineering. NASA, Boeing, Redstone Arsenal, just to name a few.

[patty1]

Originally Posted by lakerat

Add a couple more folk who are transplants from California who happen to love the Nashville are. I retired from San Diego SO 4 1/2 years ago. Shortly after that my wife and I sold our house in Ramona ( a suburb of San Diego) and moved out to the Colorado River in southwest Arizona. After a couple years there, we bought a house in Hendersonville on Old Hickory Lake and, as Tony the Tiger would say, it is G-R-E-A-T!

I moved to Tennessee from the High Desert Calif and thank goodness I did. I love Tenn.

[forestmom4]

Originally Posted by patty1

I moved to Tennessee from the High Desert Calif and thank goodness I did. I love Tenn.

We moved from Northern CA 8 months ago, but we are originally from SoCal. You could not pay us enough money to go back. Especially now. CA's economy is in the toilet. The State Legislature just passed an increase in sales tax, car registration fees and state income tax.

We love it here in TN!!

[JamesO3572]

considering GM will probably close the Spring Hill, TN plant for Saturn, Volkswagen here in Chattanooga is an option. And a very good one, but not short term (give it about 1-2 yrs).

Volkswagen announces plans for factory in Chattanooga, Tenn. - Autoblog

[socal4life]

Originally Posted by goula

Missy1999

I totally agree with you about Nashville. Remember most of the people who respond on this board have never lived anywhere else and this is all they know. They buy into the hype that it is cheaper here. I am from the Chicago area and I know for a fact it is not any cheaper here. You can't go by the median house price unless you are living in a median price house. I find houses in the 400,000 to 500,000 range equivilant to what I can get in the Chicago suburbs. Plus I have all the amenities of a large city which is severely lacking here. I hope your move to California goes well. Don't feel like you are the lone ranger in disliking TN - I hate it here also. We moved to be closer to family also, but it has not been worth it.

[patty1]

Originally Posted by patty1

I moved to Tennessee from the High Desert Calif and thank goodness I did. I love Tenn.

We retired to Camden in January. I have been busy working around the house. The back yard backs up to a small fishing lake. What a view. Thinking about joining a club or two to meet people. We moved from the Victorville, Ca area, did not want to go to the Colorado River, just to hot and crowded with rude people.

[leonard]

Originally Posted by JamesO3572

considering GM will probably close the Spring Hill, TN plant for Saturn, Volkswagen here in Chattanooga is an option. And a very good one, but not short term (give it about 1-2 yrs).

Volkswagen announces plans for factory in Chattanooga, Tenn. - Autoblog

Watch, GM will use the facility to build another car and close an old, inefficient highly unionized plant in MI or close to there. The upper management may not be real bright, but they are not totally stupid.

[cappyj]

unless you move into or near the big cities in tn., you are in for a big culture shock. things here are slow paced,people friendly, no road rage and everyone waving and telling you hello. i live in the small town of paris,tn. 1.5 hours west of nashville and i love it. I could never live in or to close to the big city although i have visited it on a couple of occasions. If you do decide to move here though,then i would like to be the first to say hello and i hope you enjoy the hospitality tn has to offer.

[lillian3]

Originally Posted by JosieM

Here's my anti-social opinion of NashvillTennessee:

I left Nashville last May after living there since 1980, I moved to Nashville from West Hollywood, L.A.

Nashville has become Religious Tax Hog Heaven. Highest Sales Tax in the region if not the country, 9.25%, High property taxes which increase every two years to pay for the Auditorium Fiasco that they "sold" to the People of Nashville (Davidson County) with the old hit song "It will pay for Itself" , and which Taxpayers are now paying for, by way of some of the highest Real Estate Taxes in the state's history. No way, you will become dissapointed quickly. No night life, Demonbreum Street (where all the Country artists had their museums and outlets) is shut down, everybody gone to Branson, MO. Simply no tourism in Nashville. Wonder why? Because as someone told me: "Nashville does not fulfill its Promise". Agreedoe.

Very true, its all Hogwash from the Religious Tax Hogs in Tennessee government.. Stay in California where salaries are for real, people are real, there's more respect for Taxpayers. In Nashville you'll have to absorb a huge cut in salary and start living a life of hipocresy. "What Church Do You Go To?" People are such idiots. "Why Don't You Mind Your Own Business?" I ask the idiots back. "I don't Subscribe To Your Religion Mister", like Ringo Starr of The Beatles said in the movie HELP. He was sooooooo right!

Fortune magazine did a comparison of restaurant prices by city: Nashville was the 3rd highest in prices, what a ripoff.
As if it was such an "important" city that it merits such high prices. Grocery prices? you do the figuring.

Nashville was Boom Town USA in the 1980's, in the 1990's the economy started to go down the gutter, where it has remained thanks to total incompetents in government who are out legislating their constituents religion down everybody elses's throat instead of doing their duty and conducting Civil business! The state has been invaded and the Tennessee government infiltrated by religious fanatics.
The old Tennessee Evangelical Freaks.

So I am so sorry to pop your bubble sister, but unless you enjoy what I'm telling you, or you're one of them evangelical fanatics, you will not enjoy Nashville. It will get very old very fast on you.

In any case, move to Louisiana where people are REAL.

Good luck, it's your life and your future.
JosieM

Well said Josie M. I was glad to read this..........

[lillian3]

Good for you that you are opened minded enough to recognize that even though Cali has its problems people are very outgoing and easy to meet. Because there are so many diffferent types of people there, they are opened minded enough to except others easily. If one is Southern and moves to California they are treated like gold because of their being different and people love the accent. Boy sure was not the same welcome I got. As soon as someone heard that I did not have a Southern accent I was treated differently. California with all its problems ie traffic, smog etc... people are pretty damn happy despite all they have to go through, go figure.....