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On 11/8/2017 at 7:38 AM, P8riot2A said:

Thats where I got my redneck engineering degree!

 

I do not want to move to TN to have it be like it is anywhere else.

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

+1e10!

SO DAYUM sick of hearing horrors of Californians with too much money moving into places, buying the snot out of everything, and turning them into little Californias, complete with gangs, drugs, and socialism.

For me... Micah 4:4. I just want my own patch, grow my own food, stay the hell where I am at, never have to worry about a missed paycheck turning me into homeless, do my ham radio stuff without some HOA ho fining me into the ground.... you get the idea.

SWC a/k/a KI7CIL

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On 11/9/2017 at 9:43 PM, Sidecarist said:

Renting is an option,

Yep, yep, 2 years and counting.

And, errr, umm, Welcome!

Bought land a year ago, working on the house plans w/ a builder now. When it's all done, I hope to have a modest house on the 15 acre's we bought, for about what you quoted.

Having 3 kids, we found hunting for a school district to be the most important thing. If you have/plan on reproducing, and aren't into home-schooling, look very closely at the local district. We initially thought we wanted to live in one area, due to the affordable property and sweeping views. Barbed wire around the schools kinda gave us a hint that all wasn't well. We opted for another suburb, similar qualities, much better schools, and are quite happy. Do your research.

The dog grooming thing is going to require you to be near(er) a city. Country folks don't groom their dogs. Heck, most of the time they don't even keep them on their own property! That being said, if you invested in a van/portable grooming facility, it would give you more flexibility. That is likely the key to success - flexibility. I have a Bachelor's and 20-years working in the printing biz. My first job down here was remodeling and landscaping with a local fellow. Then I got to working w/ a tree company (have a CDL license as well), now I'm the Transportation Supervisor and Sales Associate for the Knoxville area with a multi-national produce distributor. So much for the graphic arts!

Take a trip out here, drive around, stop at local diners (don't eat at a chain restaurant, find the local hole-in-the-wall). The Eastern half of the state suited us best. Nashville and Memphis were simply 'too big city' for our taste, and there's a radius around each and every big city. We're just about on that bubble where we are, that's a 45-min. commute to downtown Knox. Nashville you're talking 1.5 hours... The corridor between Knox and Chattanooga is a really nice part of the country, as is the Eastern end of the state (Tri-Cities area - gorgeous mountain views, Johnson City is a lot bigger than it looks on the map, ETSU helps with that).

Some great advice here, re-read it twice. I've found folks to be very warm and welcoming, even to a Yankee. Having the right attitude helps, and you seem to.

 

- Kevin

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On 12/9/2017 at 10:24 AM, SWCUMBERLAND said:

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

+1e10!

SO DAYUM sick of hearing horrors of Californians with too much money moving into places, buying the snot out of everything, and turning them into little Californias, complete with gangs, drugs, and socialism.

For me... Micah 4:4. I just want my own patch, grow my own food, stay the hell where I am at, never have to worry about a missed paycheck turning me into homeless, do my ham radio stuff without some HOA ho fining me into the ground.... you get the idea.

SWC a/k/a KI7CIL

Update:

 

Me and a TM-class Uhaul are looking at a March 2 departure date. I am taking my time, driving only in the daytime, staying with the truck. As stated in my intro, I am  moving to the Winchester-Manchester-Tullahoma-Lynchburg area. Ideally, I'd like a 2-3 acre plot near the ends of the utilities, where I can pour a slab for a garage and a trailer, that I can garden, set up a few molly-mooching plots, dig an old fashioned root cellar and cold room, and all this with a minimum of getting hung by local codes or bedeviled by HOA$$#@les.

 

? can this be done with $7500?

 

Coffee, Franklin, Moore, Lincoln counties... which one is least infested with Tyson farms?

 

SWC a/k/a KI7CIL

 

 

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Update:
 
Me and a TM-class Uhaul are looking at a March 2 departure date. I am taking my time, driving only in the daytime, staying with the truck. As stated in my intro, I am  moving to the Winchester-Manchester-Tullahoma-Lynchburg area. Ideally, I'd like a 2-3 acre plot near the ends of the utilities, where I can pour a slab for a garage and a trailer, that I can garden, set up a few molly-mooching plots, dig an old fashioned root cellar and cold room, and all this with a minimum of getting hung by local codes or bedeviled by HOA$$#@les.
 
? can this be done with $7500?
 
Coffee, Franklin, Moore, Lincoln counties... which one is least infested with Tyson farms?
 
SWC a/k/a KI7CIL
 
 


You have selected what is probably the prettiest part of TN. Those rolling hills are just awesome in that area.


Fayetteville has a neat little town square with an old fashioned movie theater. Be sure to check it out.




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4 hours ago, Hershmeister said:

You have selected what is probably the prettiest part of TN. Those rolling hills are just awesome in that area.


Fayetteville has a neat little town square with an old fashioned movie theater. Be sure to check it out.

I would like, none more sincerely, to be able to say that the selection process was wholly mine. It is not. 

An ancient friend from Basic, over 30 years ago, was going to open up a data entry business in the NW Georgia/NE Alabama/South Central Tennessee area. He contacted me out of the clear blue and asked it I would want to be  part of it. He even provided rudimentary data of the area to where I could continue working at Wal-Mart until the feet of the business were firmly on the ground. "Rudimentary" being his term; back in the day he was twice as smart as I would ever be if I lived to be 200.

Sadly, he passed away after Christmas of last year... but plans to emigrate were kept on. The ONLY reasons I am back here in Vegas are that the damned Astro I was driving  blew out its oilpan on I-40 in the dead of night, and I managed to swerve out of  the way of two 18 wheelers by a whisker. Went entirely broke getting back to Vegas, and have ground under that collection of idiots for too long, only hampered by the lack of cash to redo and resettle.

SWC a/k/a KI7CIL

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Not all that bad, really,  just expensive as hell, and  you need to be very careful. Getting the cards you need for a job are a racket in and of itself.

 

My beef isn't with Vegas per se. It's with ten months of snide crap about trying to escape and failing. It has gotten so bad, I need out of here for no other reason than to keep my knuckles undamaged by smartasses' teeth and myself unincarcerated for same.

 

 

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5 hours ago, SWCUMBERLAND said:

Not all that bad, really,  just expensive as hell, and  you need to be very careful. Getting the cards you need for a job are a racket in and of itself.

 

My beef isn't with Vegas per se. It's with ten months of snide crap about trying to escape and failing. It has gotten so bad, I need out of here for no other reason than to keep my knuckles undamaged by smartasses' teeth and myself unincarcerated for same.

 

 

Not sure you will find less snide remarks anywhere anymore. 

They tend to be everywhere these days. Too many smart phones and dumb humans. 

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 I should have specified... at w*rk. Some of the big-cheese management boasting that they had brought me back, and their several little sycophants parroting it... It wears, over time.

I've been content to really not have had anything resembling a social life. Damned well if I had one, and started to get that crap at it, would have been dropped like a hot rock. TN will be a better deal, I think.

ALthough it has been over thirty years since it was released, I DO like the fourth stanza:

Because you can't starve us out
And you can't make us run
'Cause we're them old boys raised on shotgun
And we say "grace" and we say "Ma'am"
And if you ain't into that we don't give a damn

and DO like knowing that I'm going to a place full of such fine folks.

 

SWC a/k/a KI7CIL

 

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