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School me on Tennessee

dravnx said:
I lived in Clarksville, about an hour north of Nashville on the Tn/Ky border from '83-'86. The weather was awesome, especially for this New Yorker. The summers were hot and humid but I got acclimated to it. It never got too cold. The riding was almost as good as it is here.
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Also lived in Clarksville from 2004-2007. That short stay convinced me that Tennessee was where I wanted to live the rest of my days. Just had to figure out a way to do it the way I wanted to. There's no way I'd stay in Clarksville, though. I want to be as far away from the Army as possible. :laughing

dravnx said:
I don't know if it's still true but Tn doesn't have an income tax and Ky doesn't have sales tax so I lived in and did a lot of my work in Tn and did all my major shopping in Ky.
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Sales tax is pretty high here, but you're right on the no income tax thing. The reality is that if you plan your big purchases, the sales tax thing isn't really an issue at all. It's no different than it was in California, but here I'm not paying income tax so I'm still saving a lot more money. Not to mention the much lower cost of living in the first place...

Johndicezx9 said:
:laughing

It was quickly pointed out that the school has an endowment of $1.3 BILLION and could easily cover the replacement costs...
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College football is GOD here. People won't give a dollar to a homeless person to help them out but they'll throw money at a stupid college football team all damn day. They'll literally go poor if it meant that all they money they donated somehow helped their team win a national championship. :rolleyes
 
I worked at Ft Campbell maintaining helicopters for Dynalectron (Dyncorp now) and it was the most fun job I ever had. I wish I never left.
 
The DynCorps crew we had was mostly retired E7-E9s. They were all pretty awesome.
 
Other than the rural parts of New England, I wouldn't really want to live on the east coast. :dunno
 
dravnx said:
Were you a rotor head?
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Yep. Thought you already knew that.

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Do you remember PJ Snyder, blond lady or Bill Hudgens. Both worked avionics for Dyncorp. I've kept in touch with both since the 80's.
My first job there was modifying shithooks. I think we were turning Ds into Fs. or something like that.
I spent a lot of time out at Sabre AAF and that allowed me to not pay Ky income tax.
 
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Second one sounds familiar. However, I'd imagine most that I worked with would be long gone by now. That was as almost 20 years ago.
 
Not the experience I had. I lived there for 3 1/2 years.
 
Kornholio said:
OP, what would you like to know about? I live in the Chattanooga area and wouldn’t touch Memphis or Nashville with a 10-foot pole. :thumbdown
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Thanks for the info - you pretty much covered things. We lived in North Carolina for a couple of years back in the early '70s so we're somewhat familiar with humid summers. Our son is really interested in the Nashville area, not only for the food and music, but last year he played in a hockey tournament there and really liked the area. His wife's family is from Alabama so she'd prefer somewhere in the southern part of the state so they're looking at areas southwest of Nashville - about 50 miles or so.

Haven't looked at the Chattanooga area yet - what is it about that area that makes it better than Nashville/Memphis?

We don't ride any more, but we do like 4-wheeling with our Jeeps.
 
As a left coaster, a right coaster, a faux southerner, and mid-less-er, I can say that TN considers itself the ‘mid-south’. It’s no longer your grandmother’s Tennessee. Especially Nashvegas. The real estate in TN is so hot that a friend sold her place for 180K cash over appraisal price when the CA folks knocked on her door and made the offer, even though it was not even on the market/no sign up. Not a religion fan, so there’s that. Fab food, music and activities. Music of all kinds is a magnet. We like to haunt the fine instrument shops and ‘pick arounds’ with good friends there. East TN wins hands down for beauty and the lushness and biodiversity of the temperate rain forest in the mountains as well as weather.
 
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wazzuFreddo said:
Anything east of Denver is east coast :twofinger
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:laughing

Eldritch said:
The East Coast has to touch the Atlantic
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FTFY.

DrSwade said:
Tennessee is an absolute shithole filled with extra chromosomes and sisterfuckers. Don’t move there.
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:laughing

Bubba_s said:
That escalated quickly...
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dravnx said:
Not the experience I had. I lived there for 3 1/2 years.
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It was a tongue-in-cheek comment. He doesn't want anyone else to move here...like trying to keep it small. :laughing

Alan_Hepburn said:
Thanks for the info - you pretty much covered things. We lived in North Carolina for a couple of years back in the early '70s so we're somewhat familiar with humid summers. Our son is really interested in the Nashville area, not only for the food and music, but last year he played in a hockey tournament there and really liked the area. His wife's family is from Alabama so she'd prefer somewhere in the southern part of the state so they're looking at areas southwest of Nashville - about 50 miles or so.

Haven't looked at the Chattanooga area yet - what is it about that area that makes it better than Nashville/Memphis?

We don't ride any more, but we do like 4-wheeling with our Jeeps.
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For me Chattanooga is best for these reasons:

  • Surrounded by hills/mountains...
  • Lush forests...
  • Hiking trails galore...
  • Smoky Mountain National Park...
  • Anything you want to do is within a two-hour drive. That includes Atlanta, Nashville, Knoxville, skiing, watersports, etc...
  • The cost of living is far lower than Memphis and DRASTICALLY lower than Nashville...
  • Chattanooga has all the major motorcycle brands represented with dealerships ;)
  • Far better weather than Nashville and massively better than Memphis...
  • Isn't a criminal-infested shithole like Memphis is and Nashville is becoming...

Jeeps/side-by-sides/four-wheeling in general are all massively popular here. There are ORV parks all over the place and in most of the areas around them, you can drive your off-road side-by-sides on the streets nearby so long as you have lights and a permit that's cheap to obtain. Also, vehicle registration is $29 a year here no matter what kind of car/truck you drive. You heard that right.

easy wind said:
As a left coaster, a right coaster, a faux southerner, and mid-less-er, I can say that TN considers itself the ‘mid-south’. It’s no longer your grandmother’s Tennessee. Especially Nashvegas. The real estate in TN is so hot that a friend sold her place for 180K cash over appraisal price when the CA folks knocked on her door and made the offer, even though it was not even on the market/no sign up. Not a religion fan, so there’s that. Fab food, music and activities. Music of all kinds is a magnet. We like to haunt the fine instrument shops and ‘pick arounds’ with good friends there. East TN wins hands down for beauty and the lushness and biodiversity of the temperate rain forest in the mountains as well as weather.
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:thumbup

We're definitely mid-south. Alabama/Mississippi are quite different than Tennessee is. It's become a bit of melting pot of sorts and is set apart from the "deep south".
 
Glad you picked up on that Jason.
You live very close to my ancestral lands and I’d to see it not morph like every other place overrun by Californians.
The Cabo you used to visit and love is no more. “Clean” beaches with as many rules as a SoCal beach. No dogs, park your car a half mile away, no this, no that. Neighbors complaining about cultural annoyances because they might have been illegal in Kommifornia.

I hope to buy land close enough to you that we could have weekly get togethers. IF Tennessee stay the Tennesse I grew up with.

My sister recently moved 20 minutes out of Murfreesboro and loves it.
 
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