Sweetwater/Madisonville vs. Greeneville (Knoxville, Bulls Gap: fit in, buy, high schools)

[kads_mom]

My husband and I and our 4 children plan on moving to Tennesse from Colorado this summer. We have thought about either Greeneville or Sweetwater/Madisonville. I would like any opinions on the two locations with respect to a young family (ages of kids 3 up to 11). Thanks for the help.

[Braves_fan]

Greeneville/Bulls Gap and Sweetwater are both small, rural,and old Southern Communities.
Both towns uphold and remain very active in the Christian-Southern Baptist ways of life. Religion preferance is an important issue.

With you and your husband being from another state,especially not a Southern State, you may have a challenging time trying to be accepted or to "fit in" by alot of the residents who have lived there there whole lives.

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Good luck and I hope I have not at all offended you with this reply.

[kads_mom]

No offense taken. Thank you for the heads up on fitting in. We are Christian, just not southern baptist obviously. Do you know anymore about the areas?

[mbmouse]

I disagree with Braves Fan here. Greeneville is a nice town with good schools, I would prefer them over Sweetwater schools. And Greeneville its self does not have an issue with new comers, now some little outer towns maybe but nothing serious and it just might take some time to get to know lots of people but there are plenty who are very nice to everyone. I moved to Greene County from elsewhere and did enjoy the 5 years I lived there.
As for the schools there the Greeneville City schools are much better than the County schools especially the high schools.

[Braves_fan]

I can agree with that. fair enough.

[hiknapster]

I agree about Knoxville growing too fast. I am with you there. The chances of my staying in Knoxville are slim to none.

Your neck of the woods is gorgeous. I'm with you there, too. As a matter of fact, when we first came to the area we stayed our first night in the Sweetwater KOA campground. Beautiful country. By the way, you might want to keep that to yourself!

And I love Mayfield milk and ice cream, I wouldn't buy anything else. I'm with you there, too.

But the color of someone's skin? Doesn't matter to me. I've known nice white folks and nasty white folks. Same goes for blacks. Nice people and nasty people.

I'd love to surround myself with nice folks of any color. I wish it was a perfect world.