Opinions of Pleasant View (Clarksville, Franklin: apartment, condos, custom home)

[CaliCouple]

My wife and I have been concentrating our research on homes near White House, Mt. Juliet and Hendersonville...I've recently run across references to Pleasant View...looks to be about the same distance from Nashville as White House...what kind of place is it? Is there a town center, or is it more a collection of properties/farms? Thanks!

[alleycat]

Pleasant View is a community near the intersection of Highway 49 and 41-A (and is also near I-24). There is an area that's more "concentrated", but it's not really a town (not even like Mayberry). It's still mostly rural, but even it has started to be developed. Twenty or thirty years ago it was almost totally farm land except for the property along 41-A. There's a few stores around, but most people go into Clarksville, Springfield, or Nashville for their shopping. It's mostly rolling hills covered in woods, or open fields, with a few subdivisions built in the past few years.

It is relatively convenient to Nashville.

Does that help?

I have a young lady whom I've very fond of who lives in the area (my pretend granddaughter). I grew up about 10 miles west of Pleasant View in east Montgomery County.

[WantingoutofAz]

I don't know if I can really help you as I don't live in Tennessee but our family just got back from a week long trip there where we stayed in Pleasant View for 5 days and Franklin for 2 days. We visited Franklin 2 summers ago and fell in love with it and were sure that is where we wanted to move. But we had friends who moved up to Pleasant View from Nashville last fall and are trying to convince us to move there. I am not sure if Pleasant View has a town center but it is not just farms run together. There does look to be a very small downtown with a few shops. Our friends live in a subdivision called Harris Farms Estates that has condos, starter homes, middle sized homes and very nice custom homes. I think their website is Harrisfarmscommunities.com There were two other neighborhoods that were very nice called Town Pride and Ridge Crest. Pleasant View is very small with a population less than 4000 and as far as I could tell there was only a Wendy's, Subway and Sonic too eat at. There was a small grocery store but our friends told us they only go there when they absolutely need something because it is more expensive. There is a Wal-mart supercenter about 15 minutes away in Ashland City. Springfield is about 20-25 minutes away and has more grocery stores, places to eat, and a YMCA. Then Clarksville and Nashville are both 25 minutes away.

My husband and I are still deciding between Franklin and Pleasant View although we are leaning toward Pleasant View as it is very beautiful and way less crowded. The housing is also so much less expensive than Franklin. Most people that we talked to definitely feel that it is an up and coming area. There are so many beautiful outdoors things to do up by Pleasant View including a hike by the Narrows of the Harpeth. The only thing is the amenities being a small drive.

There are a couple of other websites that you may have already stumbled across but they are townofpleasantview.com and pleasantviewonline.com.

Hope that helps

[alleycat]

Originally Posted by WantingoutofAz

There are so many beautiful outdoors things to do up by Pleasant View including a hike by the Narrows of the Harpeth.

I think you might be getting slightly turned around there. The Narrows are out near Kingston Springs. It's pretty much all the way across the county from Pleasant View. Actually, I'm closer to the Narrows living in Bellevue in Metro Nashville than I would be if I lived in Pleasant View.

[CaliCouple]

Wow, those are all great observations. We are looking for such an area, and will have to drive around it to see about the convenience of things. But, we live in LA and with horrid traffic and congestion, even small trips to the grocery store often take just as long as a drive on a country road--and a whole lot less, um, pleasant!

[WantingoutofAz]

Originally Posted by alleycat

I think you might be getting slightly turned around there. The Narrows are out near Kingston Springs. It's pretty much all the way across the county from Pleasant View. Actually, I'm closer to the Narrows living in Bellevue in Metro Nashville than I would be if I lived in Pleasant View.

you are right I didn't make myself completely clear. I guess I was a little off by saying "by Pleasant View". I remember driving about 20 minutes to get there but also thought of it as "close" because it was still in Cheatham county. Thanks for correcting me so that I didn't stir the calicouple wrong

[linda.hall]

Originally Posted by CaliCouple

Wow, those are all great observations. We are looking for such an area, and will have to drive around it to see about the convenience of things. But, we live in LA and with horrid traffic and congestion, even small trips to the grocery store often take just as long as a drive on a country road--and a whole lot less, um, pleasant!

if you can drive in LA traffic, trust me anywhere in the state of Tennessee will be a treat for you to drive through. When I moved here from NY my Realtor told me that the traffic in Hendersonville to Nashville was awfull!!!!

Was she crazy? I guess she never drove from 42nd street to 59th street!! That could sometimes take an hour.

Everything is relative.

If you need more info write back

[CaliCouple]

Traffic. Its funny. This sounds like a bad story problem in 5th Grade Math Class...My wife and I happened to leave work about the same time. She drove from Hollywood to our apartment in Sherman Oaks, a distance of seven miles over the Hollywood Hills. I left Santa Clarita, some 30 miles north, with plenty of traffic lights in that community. This was about 7 pm, after rush hour (hah) Who got home first? The wife...by about a minute. Despite the distance and gas, I was in a much better mood than her. Ack.

[storey13]

One neat thing that is being developed in Pleasant View is Pleasant View Village. I remember that I accidentally stumbled on this development a couple of years ago. Check it out at: Pleasant View Village - Pleasant View, TN

[dfr110]

Boy, if it is any consolation, I was in a similar in 1998 when I moved to Pleasant View from Sarasota, FL. I spent almost one year trying to decide while I looked at every reasonable building lot and development in Williamson and Cheatham counties. You should realize that the town of PV is different than the PO coverage for PV. PV PO coverage actually extends into Robertson County. All of PV is very nice and a much, much, much better bang for your buck. I understand the appeal of older neighborhoods but at what cost. I was one of the first people that moved into a development called Town Pride in PV. In the time I've lived here he look and feel has changed from a development with one or two houses off the main drag to one which I would match side-by-side to most of the newer developments in both Franklin and Brentwood. The commute from any direction into Nashville is horrible as the Department of Transportation would rather repave every road every three years than develop alternative means of getting into town. However, even that is changing with rail planned for the future. For the most part eduction in TN sucks; however the schools in Brentwood and Franklin are probably better. But the schools in PV are nothing to laugh at... especially - the elementary school and you don't have nearly the problems that any of the southern suburbs have with drugs, etc. You can't argue with your comments about large grocery stores, etc. However, once you get to know the back roads, the malls are closer than you would think. And you'll save so much more money moving up here that you have much more to spend on trips to town. One thing that no one has mentioned - the air is a lot cleaner up here - as you come NW out of Nashville you actually come up three plateaus - out of the basin of pollution in town. I would welcome any specific questions.