Anyone live in Tennessee?
 

A year ago I moved down to New Orleans and I am so ready to leave.

It's dirty and Louisiana is the Most Dangerous state to live in acording to http://www.morganquitno.com/cr02dang.htm in 2002.

I really miss the mountains and Tennessee came to mind.

Anyone know of any nice areas in Tennessee?

No!

No?

So you live there?

East Tennessee seems pretty good to me. Near Smoky Mountains- mild climate, nice mountain scenery, low crime, etc.

Thanks...

Can you recommend any decent size towns in East Tennessee?

If you want to be in a city take a look at Knoxville in TN or Asheville in North Carolina. I prefer a more rural setting near a tourist economy. Clean money - not much pollution.

Eric,

Oregon is also very nice.

very liberal state as far as adult and stuff like that go. no sales tax, all green trees, etc. Lots of mountains around here, pretty hi tech, they call it the silicon forest. Intel, hp, etc.

only thing is quite a bit of rain through the year, but the summers are nice.

I would really prefer a rural setting....but to be honest I am not completely living off of the internet just yet :)

So, being close to a city with IT work would be required.

One day though...One day....

Thanks Todd...

Oregon does look nice...and I love Rain.

I will do a bit more research.

:)

Al Gore does...

If your looking for work as well.... You might think about Houston...:winkwink:

move to upstate NY

but he lost the state to GW

I have never been up that way...but it is quite a drive from New Orleans :)

I'm just tired of New Orleans.

There is nothing here for me.

HaHa...I don't think I would be happy in Texas.

:)

Well Eric if you don't mind some rain, your good to go bro;)

most all of the portland and surrounding areas have broadband via Cable Modem (att, well know comcast) or DSL

As I said, a very liberal state. Most strip bars in the country per capita in the portland area.

checkout oregonlive.com, ran big the big newspaper in portland, for some ideas and stuff.

no sales tax, but there is a state income tax.

Broadband here too and no state income tax - the state is socially moderate.

I had a good time in TN, never lived there... was on Beale street a few times... yea, did the tourist stuff

I think you'd like Knoxville, Eric -- it's a college town for the most part -- the Vols are there -- and it's gorgeous in the spring and the fall -- I've not lived there but my cousin married a girl from K'ville and when we went up for the engagement party (fall) and the wedding (following spring) it was BEAUTIFUL. Just make sure you like the color orange lol ;)

Raleigh/Durham/Cary -- the Research Triangle Park area in central NC is also a great place to be in tech... mtns are a couple hours away but so is the ocean...

That's right, Kimmy - I have relatives working high tech in Cary NC and its just a few hours to the coast (a bit farther to the mountains. Better opportunities for IT struff than Knoxville or Asheville.

Ditto KK's Knoxville and Raleigh/Durham recommendations. My sister's at UT and my brother's at Duke :thumbsup Charlotte's a good place, but it's grown VERY fast. Plat and Dallas from AEBN are there and could probably give you some good pointers on jobs/living/etc.

I'm close to TN, but I'm in a rural area - I probably have one of the 3 computers in the county :winkwink:

Clemson SC is a nice place. There are a few large companies around there and they have the mountains AND lakes. My son went to school there last year.

Ashville's beautiful, too.

College towns are good because the cost of living is usually low. Just be sure in this economy, especially in IT, that you get a job BEFORE you head out. Good luck!!

Tennessee is pretty cool. I moved from Chicago down to the Memphis area 10 years ago, & I haven't regretted it once.

NO STATE TAX!!!

My wife & I just had a new house built out in the suburbs. 5 bedrooms, 4 full baths, a playroom, & an office on a half acre lot - well under $300K!

I live in Memphis, but I wouldn't recommend moving here :)

why would anyone want to live there?

Now in Memphis but bought five acres in fayette county. If you dont like crime damn sure dont go to memphis. Anybody live in rural west tennessee? I am planning on building a house in the country after 20 years of high-rise living in Memphis.Gotta love still not having a state income tax.

Dude, seriously, stay out of TN. It sucks. Too damn many bugs, rednecks, assholes who can't drive, whining liberals, egotistical conservatives, and the humidity will kill you.

I'm moving the hell out of here ASAP.

Washington state is gorgeous, cool even in the summer, no bugs, and you can always lock the doors and ignore the liberals, and by god, I'll pay the income tax so that I don't have to pay the 9.75% sales tax of TN.

:2 cents:

Ah. I used to live in Arkansas before I moved to New Orleans. I loved it there, but there are NO IT jobs at all.

Now as far as the sales tax of 9.75%

I just built an XML Web Service that figures sales tax for all 50 states.

http://www.vbasic.net/Services/Sales...lesTaxCAL.asmx
The primary function of this XML Web Service is to calculate sales tax for any State. You just have to pass it a 2 Char State Code (LA, AR, NY etc.) and Total and it returns a string with the Sales tax or the Grand Total.

Now, when I did my research on State Sales Tax Tennessee came up at 7%.

Was I mistaken?

Trust me....It can't be any worse than New Orleans.

haha...I have been through Memphis...Not my type of town :)

It all depends. For instance, GA state sales tax is 3%. However, my COUNTY sales tax is 4%. So I pay 7% when I buy something. Food is exempt from state sales tax, but not county. So when I buy food, I pay 4% sales tax. It gets really fun when you're buying something large like furniture in one county, where the sales tax may be 1% and having it delivered in another county where the sales tax may be 4% :mad: Then there are places where there's also a city tax............

Well Crap.

I'm not going to figure that into the Service.

That sucks.

:winkwink:

Sales tax in Memphis TN is 8.25%