What are you looking for in TN?

[Tek_Freek]

The sound of silence.

I live by the intersection of two of the busiest Interstates in the USA. It's getting busier and louder every year.

The lot we bought is miles from a busy road (YES!)

If I'm lucky I will end up next to LauraC and The Money Machine.

[LauraC]

Originally Posted by happyappy

LauraC,

I sure enjoy your posts.

You wrote: “Obstructed only slightly by trees, my home would face some mountains in Tennessee . . .”

Although we’ve only been here a short time, it struck us right away that people in Tennessee build to preserve natural beauty and part of that appears to be not destroying the beauty of the hills and mountains. Now, I’m sure as we travel around more we’ll see many exceptions, but just the other day on our drive on Hwy-70 to Cookeville we saw more examples of the preservation of natural beauty.

Where I come from in Washington and Oregon, the developers desperately want, and get, the hills so that they can scrape them off, and as buildings begin going up, to those looking at those once-gorgeous hillsides, it appears that scabs are growing on a wounded knee.

In the areas in which we’ve traveled thus far here in our local area, the hills are magnificent and it appears that people want to view their beauty, thus the building is done below them. So far, we haven’t seen many houses built for people to look down upon the thousands of others whose views they’ve ruined.

Here’s hoping that the people of Tennessee are active in preventing the election of “officials” who will be accomplices with developers in getting what they want at the expense of the citizens’ future peace and tranquility!

According to the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency web page, they are responsible for 90 areas in the state totaling 1.3 million acres (land and water). When you add in the federally preserved land it comes to 1.5 million acres. I don't know how that compares to other states of similar land size.

http://www.state.tn.us/twra/twrainfo.html (broken link)

[Shenandoah]

Well, TN isn't for everyone. Which is why it's good to check things out before buying. Rent for awhile, see if you like the people and the area before you've committed to buying property. But, then again, you may think all is good, th people are good, the area is good, you buy your slice of heaven, then all of a sudden, the neighbor from hell comes out of hiding. Or the local bureaucrat may have a sudden desire to throw his weight around and enact or enforce some really restrictive and arcane enforcement laws.

There's a town locally that I wouldn't buy property in, or live there if you gave it to me. The local code enforcement officer is in the pocket of someone who likes to buy up supposedly 'condemned properties' that were just fine to live in, until the officer shuts it down for finding a non-existent problem.

There's problems everywhere, and your little piece of heaven isn't always heaven. Reality is that there's good things and bad things about any given area. It's up to you to be able to balance that with your own expectations.

blessings, Shen