Who has MOVED from their home state ? How difficult was it for you?

[Billccm]

Alabama has third and forth generations of welfare society. After the cotton industry closed up people turned to manufacturing work. After manufacturing left only welfare was available. Friend of mine was a school teacher in Huntsville for several years and told me about the students attitude of government entitlements as their future way of life. Sad as there is no easy fix for this society. The government will continue to keep them in poverty as they have for the past 60 years.

 

[Hey-O]

St. Louis has the same problem with third and forth generations of welfare employees. As long as you stay out of down town St. Louis, Missouri is as safe as any other state. What they show on TV about the killings in St. Louis is a city problem and they almost always kill each other. The problem with them is no one saw a thing, even it's one of their own family members. They wear snitches get stitches as a badge of honor, while children lay dead in the street.

 

[barbee6043]

^^^^The Dem. have bouht the porr man's vote for decades and really do nothing to hep him. They are in general, ignorant to understand their delima and many just like what they have....gov'ment paycheck as they call it.

 

[Kern Dog]

Also...
There is NO shortage of the following here:
Dollar General stores.
Waffle House restaurants.
Baptist churches.

Gas prices still have me curious.
Back home, you’d have the fancy Shell or Chevron on one corner and some cheap independent place across the street. There would be a price difference of 50 cents a gallon.
I’ve been from state line south at Chattanooga to Nashville and am
Currently in Knoxville. The regular gas has only varied between 2.79 and 2.89 between all stations. Ten cents. It’s as if there are some price control in effect.

 

[1 Wild R/T]

Also...
There is NO shortage of the following here:
Dollar General stores.
Waffle House restaurants.
Baptist churches.

Gas prices still have me curious.
Back home, you’d have the fancy Shell or Chevron on one corner and some cheap independent place across the street. There would be a price difference of 50 cents a gallon.
I’ve been from state line south at Chattanooga to Nashville and am
Currently in Knoxville. The regular gas has only varied between 2.79 and 2.89 between all stations. Ten cents. It’s as if there are some price control in effect.

The price controls is based on customer demand... In California people are stupid enough to pay fifty or sixty cents for for Chevron than Fred's Fuel... In Tennessee Chevron won't sell fuel if they aren't competitive....

BTW It's spelled Waffle House... But Pronounced Awful House....

 

[5.7 hemi]

That’s cause they are on the National Pipeline for gas…..unlike Commiefornia that has its own blend that is actually less bang for the buck and not any better for the environment than the 46 continuous states.

Glad your having fun, find a nice place out there. I’m envious.

 

[BrianS]

Also...
There is NO shortage of the following here:
Dollar General stores.
Waffle House restaurants.
Baptist churches.

We used to joke around that if you wanted to rob the whole town blind there were 2 times of the week to do it. 1) During the Friday night HS Football game which the entire town attended. 2) Sunday morning 'cause everyone is at church.

 

[Roger63]

The price controls is based on customer demand... In California people are stupid enough to pay fifty or sixty cents for for Chevron than Fred's Fuel... In Tennessee Chevron won't sell fuel if they aren't competitive....

BTW It's spelled Waffle House... But Pronounced Awful House....

I thought it was awful waffle

 

[moparedtn]

Interesting day today.
First up was a visit to Cooters Garage. This was in Nashville. I should have tempered by expectations a bit. If I was a local, a 20-30 minute drive to stroll through the place would have been fine. Instead, we drove about an hour or so to find a line to get in. As expected, there were fees for everything related to Tom Wopat. I knew this wasn’t a charity event but $50 to have a picture taken with him?
Pffft.
I bought a couple of trinkets from the lobby just for garage wall art back home.
I am feeling the heat here. Yeah, it does feel heavy. It doesn’t get me sweating like most people say.... it gets me irritable. It feels like I’m being pressed on all sides. I’ve heard about how one is supposed to feel drenched just walking around in it. That wasn’t the case. I just felt like I do wearing a heavy, tight jacket.

Methinks that might have more to do with elevation - and airflow. Nashville proper is quite low in elevation (like 300 ASL)
and as a river city, things can get quite stifling in summer at times with stagnant weather conditions.
We're at about 1500 ASL over this way (the house is closer to 1700 ASL) and it took a while to acclimate myself
to the thinner air when I first came here (from the DC area, which is dang near sea level).
Any idea what the elevation is where you live now, Greg?

 

[Kern Dog]

Sacramento has areas that are actually at zero or below. We are east of there at about 150 ft

I just did a screen shot of the Sacramento weather at 6:41 west coast time.

 

[Kern Dog]

Today we went by a few other properties.
I love the barns in these rural places.

Not all the barns look good though.

 

[moparedtn]

Re: property taxes here in TN
I'm reading some slightly incorrect posts on this subject so as an actual property owner here,
allow me to state how it works fo' reals...
Most counties (mine included) have assessors who attempt to determine "real world" values of
properties, of course - but once that number is established, they then apply the "assessment"
value to the property, typically 25% of retail - and THAT number is what the tax is based on.

Once the tax RATE is established (overseen by the state, so as to keep renegade counties from
"cashing in") it's RATE x ASSESSED (remember, 25% of "real") that you wind up owing.
Our county has a current rate of $2.52/$1000, which is typical of several rural counties...

Yes, real estate taxes are actually silly low in TN BUT there is one caveat:
Those that live within actual recognized city limits of the larger towns can be both charged property
taxes by the CITY as well as the COUNTY!
Pro tip - live just outside city limits.

 

[moparedtn]

I thought it was awful waffle

I LOVE me some Waffle House! A southern delicacy, dammit!

 

[moparedtn]

Today we went by a few other properties.
I love the barns in these rural places.

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Not all the barns look good though.

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The countryside is littered with them, everywhere you go - and yes, most are sadly falling into disrepair.
As the older generations of farmers pass on, their children don't follow in their footsteps and many former
farms are left to rot. It's really sad....
On the other hand, the movement in the last several years is for others to swoop in, pick up a bargain
on old farms (acreage can go for as little as $2-3K/acre!) and restore the barns. Sometimes, the homestead
house is also saved, other times they raze it and build new...
But make no mistake, this part of the world was all about farming for more than a century and the evidence
to that effect is everywhere to this day.

 

[Kern Dog]

Waking up this morning in Cleveland Tennessee, the humidity felt noticeably less than Murfreesboro. The phone weather display confirmed a 59% reading. We rolled through Englewood looking around and it felt real nice there too. Mary has a former boss in Maryville. He bought a place in March with 86 acres. He paid just over 2 MEEE-LEEEEON dollars! I’d love to have that kind of land but that is WAY out of our range !
Rolling hills, trees, a creek on each side, a pond, all sorts of places to play. He apologized for the heat but again, it was maybe 85 with 60% and it felt fine.
The eastern side of the state might be the sweet spot.
Later we drove to see another friend of the wife. Knoxville wasn’t too hot either.
Good day.
Beautiful houses scattered about too ...

 

[moparedtn]

Gorgeous part of the state over there!

 

[barbee6043]

If ya move South, a must develop a taste for cheesy grits!!!

For Good rural land, $2-3000 per acre is real world anythingh gher is stupid!!! Unless 200 bu corn land or almond groves ????

 

[Roger63]

After I moved to Georgia my 1st winter there was a shocker. It didn't get real cold but the humidity and cold air made it feel worse than it was. After living in Iowa I figured winter in Georgia would be a snap.

 

[moparedtn]

If ya move South, a must develop a taste for cheesy grits!!!
For Good rural land, $2-3000 per acre is real world anythingh gher is stupid!!! Unless 200 bu corn land or almond groves ????

You know, nobody I know around here eats grits. I know I don't. Only place I've seen them available
is at Waffle House, actually.

 

[moparedtn]

After I moved to Georgia my 1st winter there was a shocker. It didn't get real cold but the humidity and cold air made it feel worse than it was. After living in Iowa I figured winter in Georgia would be a snap.

Winter in GA IS a "snap", ya wuss.
Actually, they get an ice storm ever so many years that just throws them into a royal tizzy....
With us, if we see measurable snow more than twice a winter, we're setting records....but it DOES
happen: