Posted on 11/06/2019 10:28:25 AM PST by Kaslin
Have you thought of Mexico?
Native Southern Virginian, now stuck in CT (moving is easier said than done). Family Seat Johnson City but migrated and all family now buried in Chattanooga. G-Grandparent’s set up a Homestead in Huntsville, AL.
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E. Tenn is SO not my final destination ;) /sarc
Proud to say, even in my neck of this horrible State, Repubs (as much as they can be up here) took a Super Majority in our Locals yesterday!
Which they will eventually turn into cesspools.
Lather. Rinse. Repeat.
I refuse to cede the state I was born and raised in to the San Fran leftists. I refuse to leave behind my job, my home, and my entire immediate family for...what exactly? What does fleeing California do except create red bubbles in other states? I believe in meeting the enemy where they are and fighting for what’s rightfully mine. If I were older or in poor health I might feel differently but since I am fit and in my late 20’s running just seems cowardly to me. Not judging the Freepers who left, we all have different life circumstances, just explaining why fleeing feels like the wrong thing to do in my circumstances. We tell the Mexicans and Central Americans to stay and fix their own countries rather than come to America; I don’t see how this is any different.
For the record, There are lots of places available in East Tennessee on various TVA lakes.
At present Boone lake level is down for I think a year and a half or so while the dam is being repaired. I think but can’t swear that there might be some very good lakeside property deals at present. There are sellers but few buyers.
Fort Patrick Henry lake is down stream and adjacent to Boone and while not as large, has lots of shoreline residential miles. My sister lives on Patrick Henry
Both are close, and in some places within Kingsport/Johnson City
city limits. I can leave my house and drive to Warrior Path State Park and be paddling my kayak on Patrick Henry in as little as 15 minutes or so.
South Holston Lake empties into the Holston river fork of Boone and is close to Bristol TN/VA
We actually have a Freeper family that migrated from California to a more rural area hereabouts and also another to the Knoxville area where there are lots of lake residential areas.
Here’s a link to Move to Kingsport. Hereabouts people are solid conservatives with no likely hood of change anytime soon
I suggested to one of my violin playing scouts that he expand his horizons and learn some fiddle tunes. He was playing in the school orchestra and his mother put the kibosh on my idea. Although the home of Blue Grass is just over the state line at the Carter Family Fold and Bristol has a large country music festival and calls itself the Home of Country Music, It is not required to be an aficionado.
Some how my son was a die hard Beatles fan years and years after they were gone. He managed to avoid my liking for Blue Grass in preference for Van Halen and other such. So, you need not worry.
There is no problem with good high speed internet on Spectrum or Comcast. The power company serving Johnson City area is in the process of building a fiber to your home network that will serve Washington County.
Thanks for all the info!
It's,"Honey it's so nice here with the low taxes and low regulations and low crime! The place just needs a few more services," and the new home state thus begins its inexorable slide into the abyss.
I left Minnestoopid in 2011, returning to Texas. I was called a racist neo Nazi because I did not worship Obama as the Messiah.
“Sadly, I think this may mean some conservatives in Texas are unfortunately raising some snowflakes.”
Unfortunately, the state’s political culture is being changed by higher education. It would appear that native born millennial college educated fools and female suburbanites tried to give us a senator named Beto.
They’re going to get their Bullet Buttons laughed at.
So you’re overhearing all these conversations? Or is that all inside your own head?
It's just a matter of how long it will take the newly elected Marxists to wreck it.
You’d be welcome back
Because many of those "Republicans" are suburban women of the Cindy McCain ilk, who never heard a collectivist promise to "Save Our Schools" they wouldn't fall for.
I live in Oak Ridge,
but don't mind the blue glow on the horizon
That's the struggle many of us go through. All of my roots are here. I am lucky to live in San Diego, where not only do we have the best climate in the USA, but we are not yet at the loony level of the other large cities in our state. Still, as my wife and I approach our grandparent years, we are weighing the pros and cons of being the "local" grandparents, or the ones with a lake house in the mountains. As locals, we get to see the grandkids several times a week, babysit them, take them to Disneyland, Seaworld, the beach, the park, fishing, camping, and generally play an active part in their life. As the "away" GP's, we would see the kids and grandkids maybe 4 times a year, but we "escape" liberal CA. As you can tell by the tone of my post, we are leaning toward staying.
All the "pure" freepers from Texas forget about their own roots when they spout their holier than thou "just move" crap.
Are waters - rivers - between all those lakes navigable?
Are there some nice lakes that don’t have huge swings in water level? I know most are TVA, and used for power generation, but are there some good year round lakes that don’t leave you with a useless lakefront for part of the year?
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