Considering Moving to Franklin (Brentwood: homes, neighborhoods, schools)

[wmac62]

We are considering moving to Franklin, We want to by a home and stay at 450,000 or below. Recommendation on kid friendly neighborhoods?

I will be working downtown, how is the traffic from the Franklin area at 6:00 A:M and going home at 3:00 or 3:30 P:M to and from?

How are the schools? Do they go to the schools in their neighborhoods or do they bus them all over the county based on race and income?

[Tunky]

You'll find oodles of information about Franklin on this board. Try doing a search, I'm sure a lot of your questions have been addressed before. We're empty nesters and travel for work so I can't help you specifically. But I will tell you that we moved to Franklin last summer and we are loving it. There are people who will go on and on about it being a snobby town but I have never felt that way...I find it to be a very warm, friendly town. Good Luck!

[gbone]

Originally Posted by wmac62

We are considering moving to Franklin, We want to by a home and stay at 450,000 or below. Recommendation on kid friendly neighborhoods?

I will be working downtown, how is the traffic from the Franklin area at 6:00 A:M and going home at 3:00 or 3:30 P:M to and from?

How are the schools? Do they go to the schools in their neighborhoods or do they bus them all over the county based on race and income?

wmac, I would say that all of the neighborhoods are "kid friendly" for the price home you are looking for, and you will have plenty to choose from. Depending on where in Franklin you live, your driving time to downtown will be approximately 20-30 minutes. You will miss the heavy traffic based on the times you will be going in and coming home. The schools in Williamson County are the highest rated schools in the State and have a very good reputation. In general, your child will go to the closest school to home unless school boundaries are changed due to population shifts or new schools. The school your child will go to will not be based on income nor race.
As a previous poster stated, there are many threads about Franklin on this site. A simple search will give you tons of information.

[artemis]

**You will miss the heavy traffic based on the times you will be going in and coming home.**

That is not an accurate statement. I am heading Southbound on i-65 every morning at 6:15am. I work in Brentwood.

There is more traffic on I-65 at that time of day than you realize. And, all it takes is one fender bender & you've got a gaper's block. 20-30 minutes on a good day, but allow more time for traffic on the bad days.

[Tunky]

Depending where you come from, you'll probably find the traffic similar to any city. I spent last week in Chicago and this week in Miami. I won't be complaining about Nashville traffic again for awhile.

[Pimpy]

Fieldstone Farms is an active, family-oriented community in Franklin that has tons of homes under your max price point. The downside is that it is somewhat of a haul to I-65. At the times you will be commuting, however, you shouldn't have many traffic issues unless -- as someone already mentioned -- a crash ties up the interstate.

[Mr.SmoothMove]

You are going to enjoy Franklin very much. All of the subdivisions down there are nice so as far as you working downtown you may want to find somewhere close to the interstate.Yes you will have morning traffic going in but at the time you are coming home it should be smooth sailing.

[MantaRay]

Originally Posted by Tunky

Depending where you come from, you'll probably find the traffic similar to any city. I spent last week in Chicago and this week in Miami. I won't be complaining about Nashville traffic again for awhile.

Heh heh. Try South Beach on the weekend. Just kidding. Don't. I recently did, and it's a good thing I didn't have an appointment anywhere. And the only place to park was in the middle of the road for 45 seconds at a time, along with everybody else who happened to be on the same road.

[Tunky]

It might be helpful for someone with plans to move here to listen online to a local radio station's traffic reporter...you kind of get a vibe for the typical daily traffic. Of course there are accidents that throw a wrench into the best laid plans...but day to day traffic patterns are surprisingly predictable.

[MantaRay]

It would be good if we tended to compare rush hour traffic on a standard basis. People say, including myself, that we think traffic is bad one place until we're reminded of the other place. Not that we didn't know about the other place, just that somehow we forgot.

I think from now on, I'm going to try to keep track of this standard- how long does it take to get (strictly on the interstates) from 10 miles outside the downtown core to the downtown core in the morning rush hour traffic and from the downtown core to 10 miles outside the downtown core in the evening rush hour traffic. If I can find out what 10 mile times are, traffic comparisons become EASY and less subjective. I can easily know where 10 miles is by either my odometer or by exit numbers, which have become standardized to be mile-based. And in fact, it might be feasible for people to do 15 mile rush hour times.

If it takes 20 minutes to go those 10 miles in two cities, it becomes tough to argue that the traffic is worse, unless it takes 35 minutes to go 15 miles in one and 25 minutes to go 15 miles in the other (traffic is thicker in one city farther out but the same within 10 miles of downtown). How about it- anybody up for a little experimentation on 10 mile times and 15 mile times, and it won't really take any extra effort to do it?