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I have been doin quite a bit of research online about Kentucky. Which town/city has a low crime rate, best schools, safe to start a family, tornados etc. All that good stuff.
Well, I see so many different areas that say their good towns. But i would like to know first hand from people that live there.
I would not replace Lexington for the whole world...I immigrated with my family from Iraq 4 years ago and since my arrival to Lexington it's my home town now hand down!
I've lived in and around western Kentucky (Mayfield, Murray, Cadiz, Morganfield, Sturgis, Henderson) all my life (so far!) and there are some good towns around here to check out. Mayor Teresa Cantrell has done a lot to change Mayfield around. She's cleaned it up, has more businesses moving to town. Home
But I have also said there are 120 counties in the Commonwealth of Kentucky and somebody will have something good to say about all of them at one time or another. Wherever you decide to move, welcome to Kentucky!
northern ky is VERY NICE! Just minutes from downtown cincinnati, but the lower taxes and serenity of ky! try ft.thomas, ft.mitchell or independence ky.
It all depends on what more you want. If you want to live in a small safe viable town, but be close to big city amenities, Crestwood, LaGrange, Prospect are great. Simpsonville & Mt. Washington work, too. Nothing at all wrong with Bardstown or Elizabethtown
We just permanently moved to Paris, which we love!! But while having our barn built, we kept our horses in Mt. Sterling and found that town to be charming too!!
I hope it goes without saying that no one should relocate anywhere without actually having visited that location several times, especially moving north to south and city to semi rural. The three major Kentucky cities are entirely different worlds from the small towns, Louisville in particular is a great culture blend of South, Midwest and North. The small towns vary in quality as they probably do in any State.
I just got back from a road trip to see a particular Kentucky town that has been hyping itself with ad campaigns in major newspaper ads for 30 years as a great place to relocate. They attempt to draw people there to open business, buy homes. It was a grave disappointment. There is no way I could function in that atmosphere.
The town was also ugly; an eyesore and it's whole hype is that it's some wonderful revived Victorian enclave. For about 6 blocks it is, the rest of the town is so sad. I had looked forward intently on seeing this place, and a trip originally planned for a few days turned into one overnight.
Don't relocate south and give up a happy life just for warm weather, it's not worth it. Danville Kentucky is pretty, it's a wealthy college town but it's out in the middle of nowhere isolated from a big city, 100 miles down a 2 way to anywhere. Some small towns could be a great place for a college career but to live permanently? Shall we go into driving habits of Rural places all over the USA? I just took a 200 trip entirely on secondary roads through rural Kentucky towns one after the other. Needless to say it was some pretty scary stuff passing huge semis and log trucks zooming by.
Being rural near a big city, within say 30 miles is one thing, being out in the sticks is another.
Last edited by travelhound; 07-09-2013 at 06:10 PM..
I hope it goes without saying that no one should relocate anywhere without actually having visited that location several times, especially moving north to south and city to semi rural. The three major Kentucky cities are entirely different worlds from the small towns, Louisville in particular is a great culture blend of South, Midwest and North. The small towns vary in quality as they probably do in any State.
I just got back from a road trip to see a particular Kentucky town that has been hyping itself with ad campaigns in major newspaper ads for 30 years as a great place to relocate. They attempt to draw people there to open business, buy homes. It was a grave disappointment. There is no way I could function in that atmosphere.
The town was also ugly; an eyesore and it's whole hype is that it's some wonderful revived Victorian enclave. For about 6 blocks it is, the rest of the town is so sad. I had looked forward intently on seeing this place, and a trip originally planned for a few days turned into one overnight.
Don't relocate south and give up a happy life just for warm weather, it's not worth it. Danville Kentucky is pretty, it's a wealthy college town but it's out in the middle of nowhere isolated from a bigcity, 100 miles down a 2 way to anywhere. Some small towns could be a great place for a college career but to live permanently? Shall we go into driving habits of Rural places all over the USA? I just took a 200 trip entirely on secondary roads through rural Kentucky towns one after the other. Needless to say it was some pretty scary stuff passing huge semis and log trucks zooming by.
Being rural near a big city, within say 30 miles is one thing, being out in the sticks is another.
While I agree with you on many of these points, it should be clarified that Danville is less than a hour away from Lexington, and most of the drive is via a four-lane highway, US 27. I believe the actual distance between Danville and Lexington is around 35 miles.
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