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Nice post.
Thanks for the catch. Corrected. But these days we may need some judo in our christian ethic.
Think about coming to NC.
We could use reinforcements.
Yes, you could. One reason we are settling in East Tennessee is that my NC cousins encouraged us to choose East Tennessee if freedom was our goal.
@concretevol and I are also located in east Tennessee. Welcome to Big Orange Country.
Hurray! Well done @rodin. We love east TN. TN was on our short list when we left Silicon Valley 11 years ago. EODDad was recruited to a great tech job in MA first tho and we ended up living on the Seacoast of NH and loving the stone walls and sugar maples. We really like Knoxville tho and the surrounding and all the way down to Chattanooga. 3 pretty seasons, great food, nice people. NO INCOME TAX (except interest and dividends, but not pensions.) NO DEATH TAX. Good food. Nice people. A FUN hockey team – the Predators are very big in Nashville. It is all the way across the state but you can have a nice team with a nice goalie (although I don’t know how long Pekka Renne will keep,playing) – if pro sports becomes sport again. Just decent air transportation, but who knows how that’s going to play out next couple – it seems very few non-stops and long haul routes for quite awhile and Knoxville has a nice, unfussy airport.
As to a Big Move: expect a surprise and you may hate both realtors by the end of escrow, but all will be forgotten 48 hours after the cash is in your account and both transactions are recorded. And you know 2 people when you get there. You’re set.
Well done!
I will second @kozak, but also understand your decision. Welcome to the east coast, anyway.
Funny, my husband and I were just talking relocation last night. Nothing as drastic as yours. Just within the state.
There’s also the fact that east Tennessee is what keeps Tennessee red.
I practiced for 20 years in Elizabethton, TN. Wonderful place.
I remodeled the KFC there.
May the Lord smile upon your transactions and journeys. Tell us how you like it when you get there.
Maybe we should establish some secret codes that he can use if the natives take him hostage. It would be a way of letting us know whether he’s being forced to say what he’s saying.
Right. Okay, Rodin, if you’re taken hostage, all you need to write is, “Lefties are great people,” and we’ll know and send in reinforcements.
Good luck!
Good luck! We’re temporarily homeless. Sold our house in California and am attempting to buy in Florida.
Looking forward to welcoming @Rodin and his family to the area. A Rico meetup can’t be far behind given the proximity of some of us.
We’ve also moved house twice in December. Once was to northern Ohio 4 days before Christmas. The driveway was piled high with snow, but the woman who turned out to be our best neighbor came over with her snowblower and dug us out. I can promise with nearly 100% assurance that you won’t be needing a snowblower here, Rodin.
I can’t imagine living in California. I felt oppressed living in Texas. Guess where we moved? Yep. You guessed it. East Tennessee. :) Right before I read your post, I wrote about life here, which is (mostly) better, though I’ve determined you can’t completely escape the crazy.
I agree about a meetup. It can encompass North Carolina, Georgia and South Carolina folks, too.
I would love to.
And we’re not far from there (Aiken, SC). I used to drive to Oak Ridge quite a bit, and we have friends in Tullahoma. As I’ve said before, if I moved to Tennessee, I’d probably move in or around the Chattanooga area . . .
Depend on where. I grew up in Raleigh, and moved back after I got out of the Navy. We moved to SC in 1988 and haven’t looked back. I still have a lot of friends in and around Raleigh, and go there periodically.
Count us in!
I thought you were only here temporarily.
I’m glad you made the decision, and are happy with it. As mentioned previously, my own recent relocation was driven more by time. I found pretty much the one place I was likely to EVER find, anywhere in the country, with the space I’d always wanted, and that I could afford. Fortunately I’d been hearing from brokers for a couple years who wanted to buy my place in Phoenix, so I called them (for a change!) and things moved pretty quickly.
I actually didn’t have time – and in any event, couldn’t afford – to visit first, or get an appraisal or anything else. The first time I even saw the place, was when I pulled up in one of the three big U-Haul trucks full of my stuff.
Fortunately the people I bought it from, had things in good repair already. And I never actually met them, as it turned out. They had to get back to near-Vegas for medical reasons, before I got here.
And I never personally met the realtor/escrow/title people at this end, either. When I went to their office to pick up the paperwork and keys, nobody was there. I called the guy who ran the place, who said that his wife runs the office if he goes out, but she was out for lunch at that time. The office door was unlocked, and the paperwork and keys were on the desk.
Aren’t small towns great??? :-)
I voted on Monday, 2 blocks away. Post Office is 3 blocks away. True Value Hardware is next to the Post Office. And a nice Family Dollar store, including groceries (everything but fresh meat and produce) is about 5 blocks.
Very cool! It came out great! It needed a redo. Used to take the kids there for special occasions.
It’s probably been remodeled again since I did it. That was 20 years ago.
Good for you! I can speak with firsthand knowledge about how fun Ricochet meetups are. Instant friends! No worries about being alone in a new place.
We just don’t do “hot and humid” so we won’t be joining you on the east coast.
The 2700 sq ft brick place in my small town is still available. :-) Only $85k.
It was very difficult for this Aggie to rewire so that TU is no longer Texas University.
But I’m glad Rodin escaped with his life and his sanity.
Yes, at some point PRC real estate prices are bound to crater again.
Phoenix might not be too far behind on that, but I got out back in August.