Weather (all year) around Nashville?? (Knoxville, Franklin: insurance, living in, moving)

[Mary P.]

We are thinking of moving from the Tampa area to near Nashville. After living in FL for 24 years we are getting very concerned about the increase in hurricanes and insurance. Not sure we want to continue facing this every summer for the rest of our senior years, so are right now in a weighing situation about moving.

Our concern is what is the weather like year round in the Nashville area. Does the area get many tornados? Flooding? Amount of snow/ice?

We are both retired so do not need to be concerned about jobs.

Would be interested in an adult community if there are any and golf is very important to my husband. Would love to hear your input on all of the above.
Thank you.
Mary P.

[Blondie]

The nice thing about Tennessee is that we have four distinct seasons. (Boy, did I grow to miss that when I lived in L.A. Even "perfect" weather eventually gets boring if you're used to the beauty of autumn and the weather actually "feeling" like Christmas.)

Middle Tennessee winters are usually pretty mild - rougher than what you have in Florida, but nothing compared to Northern winters. We usually get a small amount of snow; the ice is more of a problem. Many places don't have sufficient numbers of salt trucks to de-ice the streets after an ice storm since we don't get enough ice storms to warrant having them on hand, so when we DO get an ice storm, we're unprepared and everything shuts down. Kind of a Catch-22. Fortunately, they don't usually last very long, and the closer to an urban or suburban area you are, the better in this regard.

Spring is great with everything blooming and the temperatures usually very pleasant and mild.

Summer is very green, very HOT and very HUMID, although probably no worse and maybe not as bad as Florida summers.

Autumn, as I mentioned, is gorgeous with the fall foliage. September is still pretty warm, then it cools off nicely for October and November. It doesn't start to get really cold until well into December if not January - in my opinion, although I'm hot-natured.

Hopefully someone else can speak to your question about the adult communities in the Nashville area, I don't have any info on that. But there are a number of great golf courses around town - McCabe in West Nashville, Two Rivers, and The Legends Golf Course in Franklin to name a few.

[Mary P.]

Thank you for your input. All of this is very important to us. We might also look at the Knoxville area. We appreciate everyones input.