We migrated into Tipton Co 3 yrs ago, our car, house ins and property taxes all went down by a third.
Congrats on getting out. One of my children lives in northern Mississippi (Oxford), and the growth south of Memphis has been amazing. DeSoto County (just below the state line) is filling up rapidly, and there has been a lot of construction over the past decade into Tate County as well. Same thing out east of Memphis (past Germantown and Collierville, into Fayette County) and north into Tipton County, where you moved.
The decline of Memphis has been sad, but utterly predictable. Entrust your city to the Democrats and watch it collapse in just a few decades.