**the modern day Carpetbaggers moved in**
I’m a country boy from Suez township, Mercer county IL, that upon insistance of my wife, moved to TN almost 6 yrs ago. Our youngest son and family are down here. The grandkids were the biggest magnet. We are about 70 miles SW of ‘crashville’ (as us truck drivers call it).
I simply can’t relate to city living. We haven’t gone to downtown Nash for anything but a couple of political rallies. I have trucked in big cities enough to always look forward to getting out of them.
Where we lived in IL was very rural, with 11 people within a 1 mile radius of our house (including the wife and I). Lewis county TN has about the same population as Mercer county IL, but with half the square miles. And even though we live rural here, there are (that I know of) a least 60 people within a 1 mile radius of us.
Lewis county ... that’s down around Hoenwald
I believe. I was born and raised in Nashville ,
and was a radio announcer there , and in Waverly ,
and also in Benton county , Camden.