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My husband and I have the opportunity to move to Kentucky and have a choice of the Lexington area or Louisville area. Both of us have lived in northern Illinois most our lives. Our children are almost through with college and have plans of their own as to locations after graduation. I love the Kentucky/Tennessee region, but don't know much of either LV or LX to make a decision. Like the small town feel, but don't want to be too far from a big city. Hubby's job will be set and I would hope to find something in commercial real estate. Any suggestions as to areas would be much appreciated! Thanks!
My husband and I have the opportunity to move to Kentucky and have a choice of the Lexington area or Louisville area. Both of us have lived in northern Illinois most our lives. Our children are almost through with college and have plans of their own as to locations after graduation. I love the Kentucky/Tennessee region, but don't know much of either LV or LX to make a decision. Like the small town feel, but don't want to be too far from a big city. Hubby's job will be set and I would hope to find something in commercial real estate. Any suggestions as to areas would be much appreciated! Thanks!
Definitely Louisville. It is the most like Chicago as it is a "city of neighborhoods" with a very cultural vibe and great festivals and restaurants. However it is different in that it is much smaller, cheaper, safer, less traffic, etc. Some great small towns around Louisville include Prospect, LaGrange, Crestwood, Shelbyville, Bardstown, Mt Washington, and New Albany and Floyds Knobs, Indiana.
But I would just live in Louisville proper (city merged with county so it gobbled up dozens of small towns around it). It all depends on what you want? urban? suburban? rural? exurban? price range and house needs? working? So many variables. Let me know and I can help.
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Louisville has more of an urban feel while Lexington is a larger college town (a bigger version of Champagne Urbana). Seems like you want to be just outside the city... most Midwestern transplants to Louisville end up in Oldham County, around Lexington Scott County is the main transplant area.
Are there any dry counties left in KY? Definitely don't want that. ☺️
Daviess County (Owensboro) in western Kentucky is wet but Hancock, Ohio, McLean, Breckenridge, Grayson and Butler counties are all dry.... There's a bar on the county line between Daviess/Ohio counties in western Kentucky, called "The Black Cat" on E HWY 54 ...been there for years. You won't believe the carry out business they do on a Friday night after work! All the folks heading into the neighboring dry counties stop in there and stock up for the weekends. Just a huge line, goes all the way out into the gravel parking lot and along the edge of the road usually....
What is there? More or less 67 dry counties right? Something like that?
Most of the dry counties are west, east and south of Lexington but there's a couple up in NE Kentucky I think...
Are there any dry counties left in KY? Definitely don't want that. ☺️
All the dry counties are in east, central, and western KY.
Louisville's county and its surrounding suburban counties are wet. I think that fact alone tells you right there where a "midwesterner" or Chicagoan would fit in best.
Well to me, Louisville feels more big city and Lexington feels more like a city that feels like a smaller town (if that makes any sense.) Louisville definitely has more to do, but Lexington's scenery and the scenery around it are one of the best in the whole country imo. They both have a different feel, and you would really have to visit to find out which one would you suite you best, imo.
I was born in and mostly raised in Louisville, but have spent the last 20 years here in Lexington...at first I wasn't overly fond of Lexington, I didn't think it had enough to do, and I missed Louisville...but now, I can't really imagine wanting to live anywhere else...not even Louisville.
Are there any dry counties left in KY? Definitely don't want that. ☺️
Gotta love out of staters....
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