Starting Over in TN..Opinions welcomed and needed (Clarksville, Hendersonville: to rent, violent crime)

[smile52]

I have a son preparing to return to Iraq for second tour, but is looking to buy and build in Pleasant View when he returns. It seems to be a place of healing, and he's really ready for that. He's stationed at Ft. Campbell KY, just 30 miles from Pleasant View, and he loves the community of PV. Perhaps it is a place of healing for you, as well...I think blessings and peace WILL come to you!

[alleycat]

Originally Posted by smile52

I have a son preparing to return to Iraq for second tour, but is looking to buy and build in Pleasant View when he returns. It seems to be a place of healing, and he's really ready for that. He's stationed at Ft. Campbell KY, just 30 miles from Pleasant View, and he loves the community of PV. Perhaps it is a place of healing for you, as well...I think blessings and peace WILL come to you!

I'm currently considering a possible move to that area myself.

I grew up a few miles down the road from there in east Montgomery County.

Best wishes to your son; I hope he comes home soon.

[Optimum]

Thanks for the encouraging lift Smile52,
I needed that....smiles!!!
I Haven't thought about Pleasant View but will look into it.
Hedges of protection around your son and all our loved ones 'out there'.
peace and blessings to you,
Optimum

[smile52]

Thanks, Alleycat. He's slated for 15 mos. this time. He has a wife and two children at home (Kingston Springs for the moment) but we're hoping this will be the last deployment- for ALL these fine young Americans. Property seems to be expensive in the PV area. I'm in Southern Illinois and we can still buy lots of land for $3K/ acre. I'm hearing upwards of $12K/ acre near PV...is that possible?

Smile!

[alleycat]

Originally Posted by smile52

Thanks, Alleycat. He's slated for 15 mos. this time. He has a wife and two children at home (Kingston Springs for the moment) but we're hoping this will be the last deployment- for ALL these fine young Americans. Property seems to be expensive in the PV area. I'm in Southern Illinois and we can still buy lots of land for $3K/ acre. I'm hearing upwards of $12K/ acre near PV...is that possible?

Smile!

I have a friend who's like my daughter (in fact, I call her "Daughter #3"). Her husband came home from Iraq back in December after being deployed for about a year. Unfortunately his homecoming wasn't quite as happy as it should have been due to a tragedy involving the death of a young family member from cancer. He wasn't told until he got home; they wanted him to keep his mind on what he was doing in Iraq and to come home safe himself.

PV is really getting to be popular these days. It's growing and growing. One of the reason is it's relatively easy commute to Nashville.

Will your son need to commute to Nashville, or will he be more likely to work in Clarksville or Springfield? There are some areas that are not as convenient to Nashville, that would be cheaper and still be in the general Pleasant View/Coopertown area. Areas further away from I-24 haven't been developed as much so far.

[smile52]

He'll acturally have a couple of years left on his tour when he returns, Alleycat, as he's on a 6-year tour this time. He's stationed at Ft. Campbell, KY, so he's less than 30 miles from his gate at PV. He's thinkng of buying in PV if he can try an assignment that doesn't have DEPLOYMENT written all over it. If he can't do that, he's going to try to go else where or he'll leave the service when this tour is up. He loves the military and beleives in the missions and is a great patriot, but two years gone out of every three is to much to ask of a family man. His in-laws live in Kingston Springs...your thoughts on that? Is that closer to Nashville?

Thanks for the feedback...

[alleycat]

Kingston Spring is a little closer to Nashville, but it sort of depends on where you're going in Nashville. For example, if you going to MetroCenter or downtown, there won't be a lot of difference in commuting time between PV and KS.

I live in Bellevue, which is just up the road from Kingston Springs.

[akm4]

smile52-

I just wanted to wish your son all the best. I got back from CA last night. I was visiting my nephew who is home on a 2-week leave from Iraq. He could use some healing too, but it will be a year or more as it stands now before he can come home. Incidentally, he plans on living in TN then.

Please tell your son we say thank you.

[smile52]

Thanks for the kindness, akm4. I have three sons, two of them active military, both in combat units. We're now on our 4th deployment since the war began. It does get frustrating, but I'll never forget the sight of Americans jumbing from the 114th floor of the World Trade Center Towers to avoid being burned alive...My sons remember, too, and don't want their children to face growing up in such a world. I'll be praying for your nephew, as well, that he come home safely and find the place of healing and restoration that he will surely need.

God-speed,

SLM

[TNNative]

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White House or Springfield would be a beast of a commute. You're looking at a solid hour to downtown Nashville.

I beg to differ. Left my house at 6:00 this morning and was at the Nashville airport at 6:31 this morning. Had it on cruise the whole way doing the speed limit. Now on the way back, as I was cruising northbound at 7:00 it was a whole different story on the southbound side. Traffic was backed up from Long Hollow Pike (Exit 97) to the bottom of the ridge (almost Exit 104) because a rollback wrecker had run off into the trees in front of the old Oscar Mayer plant. He was totally off the road....and the backup was from rubbernecking.

However, I stopped and had breakfast on Donelson Pike after leaving the airport, and was back at the White House exit by 7:20 (of course Millersville finest was waiting in the median). It's a flip of the coin on what day and what time of day backups occur. From my understanding yesterday's traffic was a nightmare on all points, even in Hendersonville.