My wife and I grew up in the north and moved to Seattle years ago. We have finally had enough of the liberals and their effects on things here and are moving to Tennessee.
I’m just going to keep my mouth shut until I can figure out the social norms there! Shouldn’t be hard, I keep my mouth shut most of the time.
Be polite
Engage people
Let traffic in
Resist the horn
It’s perfectly fine to wax how beautiful it is on the rare clear day looking east towards Ranier across Seattle
Cause it is spectacular
You’ll have to get used to smaller mountains though tennessee from the river east isn’t flat very often
It’s three states really
West which is like the Miss delta
Middle which is like central KY but better
Eastern which is Appalachia but not in the stereotype way
Nashville is basically Austin on the Cumberland
Almost exact same towns characteristics
Except Austin about 5% larger
But the metro counties are good
Best value and scenery and very red state
The plateau or northeast corner
I like Knoxville
That said I live four miles south south west of lower broadway downtown Nashville which is urban and my wife loves being in the city
You’ll be fine
My wife is native
I’m Deep South native
To me tennessee is not drawl but more country accent
You’ll prolly notice that
It can be difficult. I moved to Poland 15 years ago.
Learn the local slang in Tenn, the local history, the little local “jokes” and be nice.
That’ll help you