new york to tennesee (Knoxville: best cities, transplants, apartment)

[alan vaccaro]

planning on selling the house up north and moving to the tax friendly state....my wife is a court reporter.and I am a truck driver..can anyone advise the best cities where the work would be for those professions.....

[Serious Conversation]

Originally Posted by alan vaccaro

planning on selling the house up north and moving to the tax friendly state....my wife is a court reporter.and I am a truck driver..can anyone advise the best cities where the work would be for those professions.....

Not trying to be rude, but we get a lot of these posts on the TN boards from northerners that have next to no information, and you need to provide more information for us to help at all. Do you want to live closer to the city or out in the country? What part of the state? What's your budget? Do you want to rent or buy immediately? Do you have kids or care about schools? Do you want a house, condo, or apartment?

In general, the Nashville area is the best for most employment opportunities, followed by Knoxville, with most of the rest of the state really struggling. The job market in most of TN for most fields is still very weak.

Lower taxes are nice, but you need to take a trip and actually like the area.

[artemis]

Originally Posted by Emigrations

Not trying to be rude, but we get a lot of these posts on the TN boards from northerners that have next to no information, and you need to provide more information for us to help at all. Do you want to live closer to the city or out in the country? What part of the state? What's your budget? Do you want to rent or buy immediately? Do you have kids or care about schools? Do you want a house, condo, or apartment?

In general, the Nashville area is the best for most employment opportunities, followed by Knoxville, with most of the rest of the state really struggling. The job market in most of TN for most fields is still very weak.

Lower taxes are nice, but you need to take a trip and actually like the area.

Yeh, you sound rude.

What kind of advice can you give about Nashville or Middle Tennessee? You don't live here, nor have your EVER lived here. He asked this in the Nashville forum.

We like Northerners just fine here.

[bspray]

Originally Posted by artemis

Yeh, you sound rude.

What kind of advice can you give about Nashville or Middle Tennessee? You don't live here, nor have your EVER lived here. He asked this in the Nashville forum.

We like Northerners just fine here.

I don't think they sound rude at all. I think they were just saying, we get a a lot requests for information with little or no parameters to advise. This thread is a perfect example.

There are no less than 5+ threads about moving to the Nashville area from New York in the last week alone. Few if any of those posters appear to have done any type of search on the Nashville thread before posting. It gets frustrating to see the exact same questions asked over and over again, all lacking the same fundamental information needed to respond with any kind of accuracy.

It's to the point where I wish that there was some sort of process a person had to go through to ask relocation questions on this forum.

- Have you done a search to see if your question has already been answered?

- Have you included the following information in your question:
- Budget
- Unique family needs
- Prioritized wants

I think it is rude to come in here and ask questions with what looks to be zero prior research.

and for the record, no, we don't all like Northerners here.

[DonCorleone]

Bless everyone's heart.

[N.Cal]

Originally Posted by DonCorleone

Bless everyone's heart.

Ha ha ha.

[doc1]

I don't think Emigration's question was rude but was instead both serious and realistic.

There is no shortage of people who left highly taxed and culturally different states to one of lower taxes and discovered, much to their disappointment, the lifestyle and cultural differences were too much for them and/or a spouse.

Some, in order to make it work, adapt by avoiding the locals and finding like-minded transplants to associate with.

Pulling up stakes and relocating one's self and family to another part of the country is no trivial matter. Being "cheaper" is just one part of the equation.

[ExIslander]

Originally Posted by DonCorleone

Bless everyone's heart.

Would rep you again if I could.

To me, I didn't even read it as the open-ended "where should I live" question that's posted so often, it read more like a jobs question.

[Urban Architecture]

You will have no problem getting work in those two fields. Nashville is the State Capitol with a large legal presence. There are a multitude of truck companies in the area. All of them are hiring.