We have a farm in Dade County (northwest corner of Georgia). It is very conservative and Christian and has a very low property tax rate for seniors. We have a friend who says he can pay his property tax from what he has in his wallet (less than $100). We are not seniors yet, and would have to survey and separate our house acreage from the farm to get under the 5 acre threshold.
Tennessee doesn’t have income tax on earned income but does tax investment income from what I’ve been told. Land is very inexpensive where we are located and it’s beautiful.
If good internet is important to you, Hamilton County (TN-Chattanooga area) has the best. They included the fiber optic lines when they upgraded their electrical grid. Another benefit of their system, according to my daughter, is that they rarely if ever have a power outage.
The traffic on I-24 is awful!
Chattanooga is hemmed in by the Tennessee river and mountains, so driving into/out of is already restricted.
Coming home to Alabama from Chattanooga in February was a nightmare. I only had to go ten miles on 24 before I hit I-59. Those ten miles took 2 hours. I-59 was virtually empty.
I love the stretch of I-59 from Duck Springs to Fort Payne all the way up to Rising Fawn. Very pretty country. Alabama has some of the lowest property taxes in the USA, and very unlikely to go Purple—> Blue ever.