I have decided to live near Knoxville.

Key here is that I will be renting an apartment for a few years so apartment availability is essential. The best bedroom community is useless to me and I ruled out several around the state. Had I been looking to buy a home rather than rent an apartment, I might have chosen elsewhere.

There wasn't really a lot of consideration in choosing Knoxville. Lots of shallow, knee-jerk decisions were made. I wanted to be near a reasonably...

Like you, I'm eager to put the snow and ice events of a few weeks ago behind us. Not before, though, your writer found something on YouTube that you won't even catch every year.

Oh, but now that the following is captured, all of us can watch it over and over again until,...........well, until the owner of the YouTube vid decides to remove it, which I hope is the twelfth of Never. That snow that blanketed much of Texas made it into South Texas, but also the...

I had long wanted to live on the east coast, and specifically in the Commonwealth of Virginia, until Virginia flipped into a blue state. I am crushed that Virginia is no longer an option. But I get over it. Plenty of fish in the sea, so to speak.

So now I'm lost. Where to move?

It comes down to a simple process of elimination. I know I don't want to live in Alaska. Presto, I am down to 49 states.

I want to live in an eastern state, which means...