I haven't found an area in Tennessee yet that I don't like.
Ideally, I would have liked to be over by Winchester, Shelbyville, Manchester areas where it's flat, and they have everything right there but I kinda got stuck here where there is much of nothing and that turned out fine.
As you know I'm in the mountains, very rural and nothing around me except good people up here. You couldn't drag me off this mountain now. The most thing in the mountains you'd experience would be culture shock. You have to learn not to freak out at everything you see such as these loose pigs that keep visiting me and roaming about and no one is claiming them. sigh. I get everything showing up in my yard seems like cows or horses get loose on a regular basis. You call around and eventually someone will come get them but might take them a few days or so. Mostly I love the quiet. I need quiet in my life and peace so I am in the right place for that. I am in a poverty stricken county and some still don't have indoor plumbing and live in shacks. You'll pass some really gorgeous big spendy money homes, and then regular type homes and then have a shack here and one there in between; doesn't matter, everyone puts their pants on the same way here. No one will judge you unless you come up here with an attitude like you are better, then you will be shunned quickly. When you are on the road, everyone that passes you will wave. You'll make friends at the gas pumps or in the general store. People will just come up to you and start talking, and everyone will invite you to their church. Needless to say, when someone messes with you or yours, the community will rally behind you in a big way.
Tons of out of staters are moving up here to the mountains and there is work around. Great place for horses of course, mine are thriving and happy and we actually got an equine vet last year finally. That's huge. And also a mini-Walmart and now we are getting a Walgreens. For mall stuff we go to Chattanooga but who needs mall stuff anyway? There is building going on everywhere which is keeping us fed, loads of new pretty homes going up in the mountains.
You'll have your choice of valley VS mountains where I am. Valleys tend to flood a bit in rainy season, it's low land and mountains render you stuck at home in icy or snowy weather until it melts off. Do I look like I care? Nope, I just prepare ahead of time and keep the weather scanner close. It's no big deal when you get the hang of it.
Ginny St. Pierre from CMHR moved by me last year and got a great place. She is right off my road actually on the other side of the mountain here but we are in different countys. I'm working on Gini Acton now.
PS: I still do not eat gravy and biscuits or corn bread
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