Thread: Potentially looking at moving to TN...

Johnson City, TN specifically. Not 100% yet, but considering it.

Anyone around these parts?

BTW, what's your winters look like down there?

I was gonna say not as bad as yours but then I googled it and you'd be right in the mountain area So I dunno. I just passed through there couple weeks ago but on I40. Beautiful country. Swiss is in Knoxville but still not quite that far east.

Yeah man, I think Knoxville is about an hour or so away from Johnson City. I'm not sure on the weather, the more mountainous areas generally get a lot more snow than Knoxville (which gets very little in the valley). Either way, I'm sure it's nothing like you get in Michigan.

There aren't many Sr guys around. I usually hang out when the Nashville crew gets together.

^^yup

That's pretty close to NC, no?

Cant believe no one remembered me...and the fact i grew up up there... I grew up in Elizabethton, and if you work in JC, i recomend living in elizabethton its a little cheaper.

Winters are pretty mild compared to MI. get maybe one or two good snows a year max. Some dusting from time to time. Id say only below freezing a few times a years well. Can get hot as any of the south, but mountains help a tad. Its a pretty depressed area economicly speaking but not like people sleeping on the streets. cost of living is low, but your salary will be low. My friend bought a little 1500 sq/ft house built in the 50's brick, with like 1.5a of land. Paid 85k for it. Nice nice place and dirt cheap for sure.

If you have a job lined up its a nice place. ETSU is a decent college if you are looking there. I think enrollment is like 13k or something smallish. The tri-cities total takes max 3 hours to get to all 3 cities so its a big small area. You are about 2 hours from Knoxville so weekend trips for shopping is the usual thing. Not a lot up VA ways, Virginia Tech is about 2 hours up the road as well. You are basicly ont he blue ridge so plenty of nice mountains to drive though. Dont expect a big metropolis. If you like to club or anything is basicly 2 or 3 places and all college kids.

Nashville is 5 hours away so its a weekend trip. Ashville is about 1 hour. Atlanta is near 5 hours. decent size air port at tri cities airport so can get out there pretty easily.

ive not lived up there for a while, but still have friends up there and well my dad. so i go up there couple times a year for a long weekend/week. if you are used to big towns, its not for you. small town living is the name of the game up that way.

I actually didnt remember that.

I hate traffic so small towns are good by me in that regard however I can't stand TINY towns as I'll get bored pretty easily with nothing to do. I'll have to look up the population and see how it compares to where I am now.

Thanks for the info!

Headed down for an interview here on Thursday. Here we go...

You know Now I remember you saying that visiting your dad was a few hours away east but I thought you ment Knoxville area... Which Johnson City isn't that far away either.

We went throught the mountains to go to the beach in SC. For us it was 8.5 hour drive so you could cut that in half and be at the beach alot of weekends if you get bored of the spirited mountain driving. I think Tail of the dragon is around knoxville isn't it.

Hey, I remembered! I was just a little slow in finding this thread down here in the SE section as I don't check it as often.

And since you replied in the thread, my recommendation of contacting you is of no value now! But I did check it out on Wikipedia and found this interesting:
"Johnson City is currently ranked the #44 "Best Small Place for Business and Careers" in the USA by Forbes".