Oh, no, not another ad sending all the doggone retirees here! (Knoxville: environment, relocation)

[hiknapster]

Oh. No one is getting a Costco. It's just a big scam. They don't want to build these stores where people actually buy things.

GoodbyeHollywood: Now you come through with the Walmart declaration. You big tease.

Actually, I never pegged you as a Walmart girl. Surely, I would seen signs of of wanting shrinked-wrapped beef with a funny red sheen to it.

I'm not going anywhere.

But then again, no one is, are they?

But I can transfer and my husband can get mad pay and all we have to do is wait for the economy to reach the bottom. Apparently, the creator has given me this awesome wisdom. Who would have thunk it?

I'll let y'all know.

[gemkeeper]

You know throughout this thread I have been thinking. Yeah, yeah, I know - ooooo, scary!

It is not the place where you go to bed at night that makes a place your home or where you shop or what activities you engage in. It is your circle of friends and family.

If you are "stuck" someplace you don't want to be - depend on your friendships and relationships to fill your life with all of the missing parts. And, give back the same to them.

We all have dreams and wishes that will never truly be fulfilled, so we have to have substitute dreams that fill up that empty spot. Friends can make that happen.

We all have friends right here that we can unload on, encourage, or just chat with every day or so. What good fortune we have already.

Keep looking; keep trying to get to where you want to be. But, love the people you have right now and the place they help to make for you now where ever that is.

Must be late. I'm getting maudlin. But, I do believe this to be the stuff that really makes us happy at the end of the day.

[Starwalker Fallen Angel]

lol. Well darn it. I was hoping it was a magazine I could advertise our property in. It's mostly all developement land and not realty sales.

[hiknapster]

Group Hug!!!!!!

Love you all, but mostly the gemthornton! I so have to go to bed.

<<<Hugs to all us girls coming and going>>>

And the alleycat can shut up, now, thank you.

[Topo]

The midwest is by far cheaper for real estate, but the taxes on a house will kill ya, if the below zero weather doesn't....I have lived in several places in the midwest that I bought 2-families for under 20,000 rented them out, made a profit and then resold it. But, I decided for the trade off....The weather!

Even the money wasn't worth the winters there.......lol.

[RiverView]

Originally Posted by Tinman313

You forgot the hound dog and the rocking chair....... and Mint Julep

Isn't that a Kentucky thing?

[daniellefort]

Originally Posted by hiknapster

Oh, I am so going to Chicago. It is the best deal in the country.

Two years ago, Tennessee was a great deal. And granted, no one is coming here right now.

But from an economic standpoint, Chicago, is the best deal going. Oh doggie, it is cheap, right now. Get those deals in New York or LA.

It's a dang city, with museums, great schools, incredible architecture, real food, and I can live in a town right outside of it. And we can make great money there.

Sorry, but I'm not feeling Knoxville or its houses.

The people were nice, but not that nice, and quite frankly, some were pretty hostile. And there were much as drugs out here in the mountains that there were in Florida.

I am not really interested in a place where Walmart is king. That's the most requested place on the Tennessee forums.

Do I fit in? No.

You don't think Chicago and it's surrounding has drugs, murders and higher crimes than TN does? Heck that's like going back to South FL. Probably why it's cheaper to live there. Like you told everyone moving to TN, check out your surroundings first. You want to find cheap? Northern NH is cheap. You can easily find a 2 story home for $80,000 but the problem there is that there is NO work for people to afford them. Lots of history up there and amazingly the crime other than the occasional robbery is very low. The schools are very good (heck i turned out ok anyways), lots of mom and pop shops winning the war on the new Walmart that came into town last year.

It sounds like you also found those unwelcoming TN's you've told me about. I just have to say when i first joined the forum, you really were dogging me for moving to the area in TN i chose but yet you now find yourself in a very unhappy situation yourself when all along i would read your posts and they were all about how great TN was, how happy you were and how friendly the people were. Hm.... wonder what happened to change all that for you. Well honestly, your going to find Walmart ANYWHERE you move it's just your choice if you want to shop there or not. You can't blame Walmart for you wanting to move. Your also going to find those unwelcoming people in the small towns ANYWHERE you move. Sometimes you just need to stay long enough to become one of the regulars. And your also going to find drugs and crime ANYWHERE you move. There's just no escaping any of it anywhere in this crazy world. You just have to learn to live with some things in life that you don't like and not get up and move every time someone or something makes you unhappy. That's not trying to solve the problem, it's running from it which seems like your doing. It's great you can transfer with your job but it surely limits where you can move to keep it.

[LauraC]

When hordes of new people swarm into a small town from someplace else, it's an invasion. I don't care how old they are.

It's sort of like illegal immigration. The US has laws on the books to control how many people can enter the US legally. With the exception of people who are allowed to come because of persecution in their own country, people are supposed to be let into our country based on OUR needs (like particular job skills) and what the US taxpayers can afford (which is why masses of poor people coming here from anywhere is not supposed to happen). When illegal aliens trickled in from elsewhere, no one took much notice but when hordes of people came into this country, the US taxpayers took notice because of the impact to hospitals, schools, police, prisons, jobs, etc. impacted more than just Southern California.

The analogy is, when new people move to a new town onesy, twosy from other states, the town is better able to absorb them but when these massive master planned communities go up, in addition to changing the fabric/culture/politics of a small town, you get hit in the pocketbook because your taxes are needed to support them being there (roads, services, schools, police, hospitals, etc.) and I'm not even going to talk about the traffic and destruction of the landscape when they clear massive parcels of land. Now a mass invasion of retirees into a small town isn't going to impact the schools (unless they vote down every school program even though the families who have lived their forever want those programs) but they will impact everything else. Their massive presence will mean clearing your landscape of large chunks of ts natural beauty, demand for services, clogging up the roads, and God knows who they'll vote into office.

Master planned community developers to me are down there with deadbeat politicians, below used car salesmen.

[WOWAddict]

Originally Posted by RiverView

What's wrong with retirees? Hopefully one day you we will all be retirees.

Because then TN becomes what FL is in 10 years.

[RiverView]

Originally Posted by WOWAddict

Because then TN becomes what FL is in 10 years.

Should we exterminate people over a certain age? Still watching Logans run?