White House/Pleasant View/Clarksville area (Franklin, Hendersonville: to live, dangerous, moving)

[kaygirl05]

Originally Posted by leonard

If you search a few threads you will get more detail.

However it seems in the city and in one particular county that the city or area straddles (The area is in two counties) you are billed for sewer based on total water usage even though a lot of water does not go in the sewer. That makes your bill MUCH higher You can get it adjusted but it is something to check into.

I was not there long, but everyone I met was friendly and traffic is not a big deal from what I could see. Just far enough away from Nashville to not be in the middle of the traffic coming and going, but close enough for trips when necessary. I am not sure about work however.

yea I found it on one of the threads and read about it, so if you have a septic tank it won't really effect you, but if you're on the public sewer system it will. what do you mean straddles one of the counties? they get more money out of them for the sewer and water bills, than the other county? which one are you talking about, sumner or robertson?

[MiddleTNresident]

White House has a new Super Walmart.

Commuting to/from Nashville is no big deal....that's where the jobs are. Not much work here unless you open your own business or get into the retail stores. White House is exit 108 on I-65, so it's almost all highway driving at 70 mph if you manage to find a place to live close to the Interstate.

There's enough shopping in White House for most people. Springfield or Hendersonville (15 miles in either direction?) and RiverGate Mall (12 miles?) take care of the rest. Kentucky, too, but we've never needed to there.

White House is in two counties: Robertson (Walmart side) and Sumner. It has city limits and unincorporated areas. Utility prices vary for those different situations. I live withiin city limits and my water/sewer charges are very reasonable. I also don't do any outdoor watering since my community does that for us (sewer rates are calculated on water usage). Larger homes on acreage usually have septic, but then you are responsible for the maintenance/cost if the septic system fails (you don't want to know what that's like...give me sewer!).

White House is rural/suburban, bordering more on farms than on other "industries". It's quiet and peaceful but within easy commuting distance of everything you'll ever need.

[kaygirl05]

Originally Posted by MiddleTNresident

White House has a new Super Walmart.

Commuting to/from Nashville is no big deal....that's where the jobs are. Not much work here unless you open your own business or get into the retail stores. White House is exit 108 on I-65, so it's almost all highway driving at 70 mph if you manage to find a place to live close to the Interstate.

There's enough shopping in White House for most people. Springfield or Hendersonville (15 miles in either direction?) and RiverGate Mall (12 miles?) take care of the rest. Kentucky, too, but we've never needed to there.

White House is in two counties: Robertson (Walmart side) and Sumner. It has city limits and unincorporated areas. Utility prices vary for those different situations. I live withiin city limits and my water/sewer charges are very reasonable. I also don't do any outdoor watering since my community does that for us (sewer rates are calculated on water usage). Larger homes on acreage usually have septic, but then you are responsible for the maintenance/cost if the septic system fails (you don't want to know what that's like...give me sewer!).

White House is rural/suburban, bordering more on farms than on other "industries". It's quiet and peaceful but within easy commuting distance of everything you'll ever need.

yea my mom would like that, cause she could probably transfer over to their Wal-Mart, it'd be so much closer than where our nearest Wal-Mart is located. (15 minute drive) that's what you have to do when you live out in the country. well actually we were kind of thinking about opening some kind of business, just wasn't sure if we'd do better online, or in a shop downtown? it's mostly so we can get a little bit of extra income, but we'd most likely keep other part-time jobs as well if that's possible. hmm that's good to know they've got a good amount of retail stores, that is one of the main jobs I wanna get hired on at, preferably at a mall so I've got more to choose from, but either way works. It's just that we don't have hardly any clothing stores around here, and our JCPenney is the smallest Penney's ever. Nobody's ever hiring unless it's fast food (this was even before the economy got bad)We'd love to move because we know this town is never gonna get any better with jobs, etc., and we're tired of driving an hour and a half to get to a decent mall. Preferably we'd wanna drive no more than 30-35 minutes to a mall.

So is it as long as you live in the city limits in either county, you'll pay cheaper utility rates? or do you pay cheaper rates because of being in the city limits instead of the unincorporated areas? or is it simply because of which county you end up living in?
This would be a good area for us to live in, but if we buy a house their we wanna make sure we don't end up with one of the houses with high utility rates. My dad wouldn't be too thrilled about that.

[whhs162005]

i live on the sumner county side of white house and i have lived here since i was 4 and i really love living in white house and we are definitly a growing community we just got a wal-mart of our own and we just got our liquor by the drink license so hopefully we will be getting some resturaunts who knows but it really is a great place to live

[MiddleTNresident]

I think if you are within city limits (either in Robertson or Sumner county) you get the same water/sewer service and rates and service providers. Outside the city limits, the rates change (higher) as well as the service providers. I'm not completely sure, though. There have been several people that posted here on both sides of the issue (those happy with their rates and those very unhappy). However, nobody has been forthcoming as to where they live exactly, especially the unhappy ones. I suspect the unhappy ones may be in the unincorporated areas. I'm one of the happy ones and I'm in Roberston, in the incorporated part of White House, within city limits.

We have retail, yes, but not in the quantity you will see in Madison/Goodlettsville (Rivergate Mall area) or Hendersonville. If you are looking for a retail job here, the jobs are not as numerous. A lot of residents here commute out of White House for their jobs. Frankly a lot of retail starts to wear down a community. Rivergate, for example. It brings too much traffic, and then it brings an increase in crime. I like the lower level of retail in White House, but it's going to change. Now that we have a huge Wal-Mart a lot more retail will appear here eventually, once the economy improves for construction of new stores. And like the previous person mentioned, we will soon get liquor-by-the-drink restaurants, too.

[kaygirl05]

I'd like to know what type of factories are in Springfield and Portland, and if anyone knows how much they pay per hour?

[Capo]

Are the people in White House friendly? Let me share a story with you all.

Several years ago, my family and I were driving through the town as we were in the process of moving from one city to another. Being a big city boy, I instinctively go into the "defensive" mode when something "bad" happens.

In our over 1,000 mile drive, one of our cars started to overheat and studder (I was driving a moving truck, my wife was in the other car). This happened right in front of white house and we pulled off at the main exit - granted, we had no idea about this small town and had never even heard of it at the time.

Within FIVE MINUTES of pulling over, we were immediately approached by at least 3 different groups of people asking to help. At first, being a city boy, I said "thanks, but no thanks" because frankly, in the city I was from you simply don't take such help, at night, from someone on the side of the road. But, on the third try we finally said yes, because frankly, I dont know much about cars and were still a long ways away from our destination.

This person called her friend, who knew cars, and he and his WHOLE family drove out to meet us on the side of the road. Once she had called him, he was there in under 10 minutes. He looked at the car and figured out what the problem was. He then took my family, with his family, to an auto store and told me what to get. We then went back to car and he fixed it. I tried to pay him, but he flat out refused and just tipped his hat and drove away.

Keep in mind - all of these people had no idea who we were and the number of people who tried to help clearly shows that we didn't just run into one good Samaritan - the town at large must be largely like this.

I was floored by these acts of kindness. Coming from a big city, the main mentality is to just keep to yourself and try not to bother anyone else. Such... aggressive kindness, from a stranger, is not something which I had seen many times before.

So is White House a good place to live? Well, if people are what truly matter, then you better believe it is!

[kaygirl05]

Originally Posted by Capo

Are the people in White House friendly? Let me share a story with you all.

Several years ago, my family and I were driving through the town as we were in the process of moving from one city to another. Being a big city boy, I instinctively go into the "defensive" mode when something "bad" happens.

In our over 1,000 mile drive, one of our cars started to overheat and studder (I was driving a moving truck, my wife was in the other car). This happened right in front of white house and we pulled off at the main exit - granted, we had no idea about this small town and had never even heard of it at the time.

Within FIVE MINUTES of pulling over, we were immediately approached by at least 3 different groups of people asking to help. At first, being a city boy, I said "thanks, but no thanks" because frankly, in the city I was from you simply don't take such help, at night, from someone on the side of the road. But, on the third try we finally said yes, because frankly, I dont know much about cars and were still a long ways away from our destination.

This person called her friend, who knew cars, and he and his WHOLE family drove out to meet us on the side of the road. Once she had called him, he was there in under 10 minutes. He looked at the car and figured out what the problem was. He then took my family, with his family, to an auto store and told me what to get. We then went back to car and he fixed it. I tried to pay him, but he flat out refused and just tipped his hat and drove away.

Keep in mind - all of these people had no idea who we were and the number of people who tried to help clearly shows that we didn't just run into one good Samaritan - the town at large must be largely like this.

I was floored by these acts of kindness. Coming from a big city, the main mentality is to just keep to yourself and try not to bother anyone else. Such... aggressive kindness, from a stranger, is not something which I had seen many times before.

So is White House a good place to live? Well, if people are what truly matter, then you better believe it is!

wow, that really does prove how nice they are. I haven't come across people that kind. It'll definetly be nicer living in such a friendly small town since ours is total opposite

[kaygirl05]

Can anyone tell me how much job growth is going on in the Portland and Gallatin area?

[Pimpy]

Gallatin is definitely growing; Portland not so much. Why don't you consider Hendersonville? It is DEFINITELY growing, has anything you could want, yet you can still find a place with some land if you look along Long Hollow Pike or any of the areas north of the bypass.