THINKING OF MOVING

[CatHerd]

If you like mountains and lakes, there are still some nice small towns left, although they are being advertised to those looking to flee blue states so they may fill up soon.

Nashville and Knoxville metro areas have horrible traffic and homeless problems, so avoid those. Areas near the Great Smokey Mountains National Park have been over built and are overpriced, so be aware of that.

I haven’t been to Chattanooga in years, but a neighbor who just returned from a week there told me yesterday that Chattanooga is starting to see the same traffic, crowding and druuggie/homeless problems we are having here.

I’m a saltwater person, not so much a mountain person, so the drastic changes to my hometown here are more distressing to me than they would be to a newcomer who loves mountains and lakes. You might like it!j

To me, a remote island with abundant wildlife surrounded by saltwater teeming with redfish is worth the price of hurricanes. To a mountain !over, the overcrowding, traffic congestion and high real estate prices of Knoxville might be worth the price for being near mountains and lakes.

My leaving makes room for one more here, I guess.

[7thson]

Today a sandwich, tomorrow a 2x4.

Exactly!

[Palio di Siena]

My daughter lived in Richmond for 2 years doing post grad stuff at VCU.
I was glad when she left - I even paid for the movers to get her out

[Vermont Lt]

My daughter and son-in-law were adjunct professors at VCU.

They had a cute little house. They also had a sub-3% mortgage. THOSE were tough to leave. But they moved to the mid west to take positions at a Big 10 school. My daughter tells me it was like moving to “heaven.”