4 Great Rural Towns In Northeast Tennessee 

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Welcome to Tennessee!

Soon it won’t be recognizable because out of staters won’t stop coming here

I'm sorry for your loss.

@@user-cf9np9cy8q We're from out of state and we haven't changed anything here.. Even bought an existing house.

Thank you! We still need to catch up!!

I have been here for 16 years now after living in five other states. Northeast Tennessee is a wonderful place to call home❤

All of you newcomers. Do you not have roots nor history in your home states??? Why is it so easy for you to leave your home states and forget them? There’s nothing in the region where you left that’s nice enough for you to stay there??? You make native Tennesseans way of life and community unaffordable for us to remain in when you all run here We’ve lived here all our lives from generations we don’t know another cheap place we can just pack up and run to nor do we want to run. Your excited happiness and new found paradise becomes a sad reality for us by making it hard for us to remain in our towns. Oh don’t worry about modest or poor southerners just continue building new houses and running taxes up Well just go live in a tree somewhere

I would say the biggest motivation to leave my state is oppressive gun laws, liberal policies, and cooky governors. I'm not at a place where I can move, and it wouldn't necessarily be TN, but its nice to see some other states. But, yeah having out of staters driving up home prices would be annoying for sure. I can't say I would like that either.

It’s a wonderful place to call home. I lived in five large cities before moving here.

We sure like visiting there!

For real 😂😂

Gatlinburg (township) is the Pitts.

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Hello nice to meet you here ✋

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I understand how I feel.. I'm in Manchester.. we are getting folks from all over.. it breaks my heart

No offense to all of you, but why are you assuming they are "progressives" & have intentions of creating the very things they are running from? An outsider can't want to be around folks with similar values, moral compass, appreciation of the outdoors, small town appeal? You wouldn't want to know the demographic & brutality they are leaving...you'd actually consider them a refugee if you knew the true stories. God Bless.

@@ItsTimeMichael no one is saying progressives but that is happing on a big scale it’s just the fact of farmland disappearing (not by their fault) and people moving in here are paying these god awful high prices that trust me when I tell you politicians in small towns are just as crooked as the rest. They just love to raise taxes to push out the farmers because the land is worth more with a house on it. I’ve seen all this before.

@@rollinstone1969 I appreciate your honesty. I am very sorry it's happening. There's a major reshuffling of the deck going on with society's subcultures converging & folks who can afford it are just leaving for places down south or a mountain time zone state to escape violent crime, gangs & schools that no longer resemble that of a few years ago. Problem is this has been many years, decades in the making, but tgey were blind to it until covid shutdown. We have the issues of shrinking farmland too in upstate NY/Finger Lakes region where I reside. The kids don't want to continue the family biz of 70+ yrs in some cases. The property goes up for sale & zoned as such for perhaps a decade or more without a buyer until recently...towns desperate for property/school tax revenue. Now they are rezoned for "affordable housing". The millenials & Gen Z's want to be keyboard warriors...no dirt under their nails, but could care less about a pumpkin farm or apple orchard as a sense of pride & family legacy. They claim to love the planet, yet have never even done as much as bait a hook, cast, & eat the catch of the day. Thanks for sharing your justified concern & unfortunate reality in your area.

That’s right. Here in the south we’ve always been happy but now we’re being uprooted by people with money wanting to buy our small towns. To the highest bidder will go our peaceful way of life, our land where our history is, our hearts. Now we know how the Indians felt. Northerners don’t care who they run out or what hardships they cause people as long as they find a paradise

A beautiful time of the year to visit. Thank you for watching our RU-vid channel!

Thank you David!

Don't tell anyone for gosh sake!

@@JuniorFarquar You're RIGHT- I need to shut up and let the IDIOTS stay in the lousy cities.

Thank you Patricia!

@@LivinginJohnsonCityTennessee You are welcome. Well deserved accolade.

You won’t be disappointed!

We’ll it’s not.

@@user-cf9np9cy8q I understand your hatred towards those of us from out of state. But it's also better to have those of us who want in a state or area that you want. We don't want to move there to change anything, well I can't speak for everyone. But I want to move there because it's that piece of heaven that I am looking for. Is that so bad?

Thank you Robert! I really appreciate your comment. It’s not hard to show the beauty here!!

Jcity wants to be Asheville wants to be SanFran. Sux now.

Thank you! Hopefully you can come for a visit. That will give you a better look at all the beautiful towns in this area. If you haven’t already, check out our other videos on our Living in Johnson City Tennessee RU-vid channel. We have several videos about various towns and neighborhoods.

Knoxville is great :)

Thanks! We are working our way back over there. The corner of NE Tennessee has so many towns to choose from!

We sure will. So happy to hear that you are enjoying them. Working on a new one this next week!

Veterans are always welcome to relocate here 👍 I'm an Air Force veteran myself

I hope the perfect home comes up for you very soon!!

All the locals don’t want our areas to change. What’s wrong with your own state??? Don’t you have history or roots there? You don’t like your own state. We can’t afford your way of life here and when you run here our very modest way of life becomes unaffordable for us Your new found paradise in our back yard turns into a sudden hardship for us. But I guess you you up north don’t consider anyone but yourself .

@@user-cf9np9cy8q if you own a house and your own property there your value, profit and margin will sky rocket so that's a benefit... if you been there your whole life and your renting considering the market was 200,000 and lower years ago.. then am sorry not to be rude your basically waisting your life there to get nothing at the end for the next generation that you create.. something is wrong.. the reason why people like me wanna come where there is like minded people because I want to fight for humanity and our GOD Given RIGHTS!!! not the p.o.s government..and I wanna give my kids the life they deserve.. picture how we feel down in the east coast were being invaded and bombarded by all different illegals from all countries.. I have no problem with immigrants which is fine because America was built from immigrants like my grand and my great grand parents.. not illegals that murder, rape and cause violence.. thank your politicians..the best part is.. that us working class have to pay from our hard earning sweat and blood money.. to house these lunatics..while our veterans are homeless!!! aint that something. don't get me. started..me coming over there is gonna be a blessing - 1 I would fight side by side with you against all terrain 2- my businesses are going to Create good paying jobs🤷‍♂🤷‍♂🤷‍♂

Agreed. The more people they bring in the worse it gets.

Like everywhere else in this country

@You_Tube racists? Lmmfao

Northerners are never happy. They’re always looking for their next paradise to conquer and move in on. So our towns are toast pretty much.

@@phillipstroll7385 Northerners are never happy. They’re always looking for their next paradise to conquer and move in on. So our towns are toast pretty much

DC and OR? I don't think TN is right for you.

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I know, I just enjoy saying Chuckey, Tennessee!

I was hoping to visit Paraguay someday. I hear theres friendly people and beautiful country too.

You guys and 2 million others all say that, go take a road trip and look at Ooltewah...you will see what well intentioned new comers bring.

@@bethwilson7901 I truly understand where you are coming from. Both of us were raised in small towns and country living. My husband and I moved to Colorado 25 years ago. We loved where we lived because we still had the amenities of a town feel and still had farms and cattle near by. Fast forward 25 years later-greedy land developers came in and ran off the farmers. 😢 We are now surrounded by more houses, apartments, pot dispensaries, etc. The price of homes are starting at $500,000! It makes us sick! 🤢 Colorado has become so liberal that Christian teaching and values barely exist. So yes, we ARE one of the few who DO want to be part of a wonderful community.

That’s what all out of staters say. That they will just blend in. And then us native in staters that have been here for decades end up getting gentrified

@@bethwilson7901 that’s right sister. Yankees are destroying the south at a very fast rate. Our little hometowns are becoming unrecognizable. They think it’s paradise but it’s erasing our homes and our way of life

@@mariegerloff6446 Well the south has been hit unmerciful with masses of outsiders Began in about the year 2005 till now. Instead of easing up, the masses keep coming as if it’s paradise here. We’ll it’s our generational homes and land we’ve lived in peace and poverty here for over 160 years. We would rather continue poor than to lose our way of life. And yes it is happening and we don’t have money to keep up with the out of staters that run here and make it very trying for us to keep up with cost of living that used to be easy for us. Now it’s getting so strenuous for us to afford. So I’m sure most people that move here don’t give a care less that we’re being displaced as long as they’re happy

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@@teyvijsh Doing good.

Don't get lured into the pagan/nuevo-hippy trend. Tons of homeless bums flit from jcity to Ashehell and back

@@JuniorFarquar What's wrong with Paganism? It's an old and still valid belief system legally recognized as a legitimate religion. It's related to Wicca which is another legit religion. Maybe you're thinking of devil worshippers worlds apart from all religions.

Yep come help destroy southern communities and change them. Don’t you have your own culture up north??? We want to be left alone Please

All of you newcomers. Do you not have roots nor history in your home states??? Why is it so easy for you to leave your home states and forget them? There’s nothing in the region where you left that’s nice enough for you to stay there??? You make native Tennesseans way of life and community unaffordable for us to remain in when you all run here We’ve lived here all our lives from generations we don’t know another cheap place we can just pack up and run to nor do we want to run. Your excited happiness and new found paradise becomes a sad reality for us by making it hard for us to remain in our towns. Oh don’t worry about modest or poor southerners just continue building new houses and running taxes up Well just go live in a tree somewhere

Thank you for watching our videos!

All of you newcomers. Do you not have roots nor history in your home states??? Why is it so easy for you to leave your home states and forget them? There’s nothing in the region where you left that’s nice enough for you to stay there??? You make native Tennesseans way of life and community unaffordable for us to remain in when you all run here We’ve lived here all our lives from generations we don’t know another cheap place we can just pack up and run to nor do we want to run. Your excited happiness and new found paradise becomes a sad reality for us by making it hard for us to remain in our towns. Oh don’t worry about modest or poor southerners just continue building new houses and running taxes up Well just go live in a tree somewhere

I am not familiar with Tullahoma. It appears to be 3 or 4 hours from Johnson City.

It's nice around there .

I hope you have a fantastic visit! The people here are very friendly and I’m sure you will feel right at home!

Franklin TN is where you want to look first.

Go to Memphis! Best city ever!

@@annjames1837 lol.. yes . Go to Memphis

Y'all don't want new neighbors do ya?@@annjames1837

Thanks for watching our channel! Check out our other videos, “How much snow does Johnson City get” and “Winter in NE Tennessee.” If you have any other questions feel free to email or text me.

Sure you do.

July,August🤗

Pigeon Forge and Gatlinburg are fantastic for vacations. It’s a bit slower paced and peaceful further NE.

The average home price has gone to approximately 300k.

Amen 👍

It’s all about making the $ for realtors.

I agree

Agree ! we got enough foreigners as it is. Crime usually follows

They’re realtors. This is the nature of things. Conservative principles make a town great, then people move there. In the future, we’ll just turn other untouched areas into the golden so all rural

Lol! Just posted about living in Chicago and hating living there even thought I always had work and great pay. The winters were horrific and people are rude and insulting. So I moved back home to be in the mountains and have lived in abject poverty even while working 80 hours a week trying to get ahead. I guess you just need to choose what is important to you.

Remember why you are leaving a failed Democratic blue state!

@@annjames1837 no worries I vote RED! That’s why I’m leaving! Lol

I also work in healthcare. I am only 4 years from early retirement with a federal job. I can take my health insurance with me and I have no real debt. I still plan on working part time but no more healthcare 38 years is plenty! Also I can see patients virtually even longer if I so choose so I think my retirement is pretty solid. There are always pros and cons! I can live modestly which helps.

@@jethrobodine4638 ya, because it's the libs that don't want anyone to be able to afford medicine or healthcare....

JC is growing quickly. Businesses are striving. JC has a population of 71,000 and a daytime population of 200,000. Lots of people working in the city.

Another gorgeous area!

Licensed contractors can stay very busy. Especially contractors that are reliable!

Tons if you show up, aren't tattood and get fd up before or at work.

My realtor said the same thing, i came to visit and do 12 home inspections. No tattoos, can't get any help in CA that isn't drugged out or drunk either. Must be a nation wide propblem. Thank you for the input.

I don’t think such a place exists.

Yay!! Run hurry to buy southerners way of life and history. Yay. Hurry money bags. Gentrification awaits in your new found paradise

You are correct! I will make mention of that in our next video about this area.

Hello Pat. I grew up in MI so I understand about the winters! “The Cowboy Corridor” is a rural area. Mostly single family homes and farms. You may have more luck finding a rental in Greeneville just west of “The Cowboy Corridor” or east in Jonesborough.

@@LivinginJohnsonCityTennessee Trying to find a place to look down there is a pain just using the internet. I've only been through TN but loved it. I'm sure like every other state I've been to, there are a lot of bad places in your State but also good places. I'm kinda looking for a smaller/small town. If you can help me out, that would be GREAT. THANKS!!!

@@murraypft Erwin and Elizabethton may be good choices for you also. Erwin is south of JC and Elizabethton is east. Both nice smaller towns with beautiful Mountain views.

@@LivinginJohnsonCityTennessee ABSOLUTELY no rush. I think Erwin is a town for me. Do you know a realtor there? If so, that would be great.

@@murraypft I’m a realtor. Our brokerage doesn’t handle rentals. You would probably need to visit the area or look online to find a rental.

A mater or termater its the same.

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@@LivinginJohnsonCityTennessee I'm FROM here- just lived and worked in Cali.. and thank God escaped... to get home.

I hate hate hate sweet cornbread

@@user-cf9np9cy8q I have SENT IT BACK in restaraunts telling them if I wanted CAKE I'd ordered cake... !! Funny thing is- out there- NONE of the corn meal would turn out as good as it does here-- maybe the diference in sea level or something - who knows-- I could get it OK- but NOT as good as here. even when my SIS sent me corn meal. (once the UPS guy dropped the box and it spilled a bit- and the cops came to test it- thought it was drugs.. ha.

Winters are not too bad. Mostly a few inches of snow a few times a year, but recently we are getting massive storms that shut the whole place down and wipes out all the stores. As for poisonous snakes, ya have them. Rattlers, copperheads, and water moccasins. You don't find them under every rock though. You will see 100 other snakes to every poison snake you see.

Rattle snakes, copper heads are very common. Have a friend who was bitten by a copper head! They are very aggressive snakes! Ice storms, tornadoes, snow, a lot of flooding

LOL!!! Just posted the earlier reply, and my dog started barking. Went toward her and noticed her jumping around something in the yard. When I got closer I noticed a snake striking at her. I could tell right away that is was a black racer, so I shooed her away and grabbed it and put in under my compost bin. 3 hours later, my dog barks on the other side of the creek, and there is another one almost twice the size. So I grabbed that one too. Some snakes are good to have around. I have moles I would like to get rid of, and nothing beats snakes for getting rid of rodents.

@@annjames1837 don't forget cottonmouths

@@annjames1837 Nice try Ann….😊😊😊

The first thing most people say that relocate here is they can’t believe how kind and thoughtful everyone is. I have lived and five other states and I have loved all of them. Tennessee is my favorite, mostly because of the wonderful people. There are bad apples everywhere.

Stop spreading lies!

@@annjames1837 so you know me and know if I am telling the truth? Talk about a big fat lie.... I went to school here and thought that had many old friends who were wonderful good people, but they have all started making hate posts on FB against gays, women, blacks, Muslims and libs. I have 3 cousins and I refuse to have anything to do with any of them, the first two started posting hate memes about native Americans. I have a little sister who is half native American, so they no longer exist the third cousin just kept spreading q-anon garbage so I called out his ignorance, thus we no longer are on speaking terms. There are vulgar trump flags everywhere. But let me guess, you see that as a great thing that you have a leader that wants half of the nations population dead. Now tell me who's lying.

@@LivinginJohnsonCityTennessee I work in JC at a great progressive company. My boss loves me, but that is because I leave my politics at the door. The place I worked at before was a large company in Morristown. The company was great, but the employees were hateful and ignorant. There were a couple of gay people who were hired, but the other employees made sure they knew how hated they were from the moment they walked in. If you are a fox news watcher you will see this as a great place with great people. If you aren't, you are the enemy. I grew up with my grandparents, and they never locked their front door. I used to romanticize about how warm and giving the people are here, but since trump has infected their minds all they think about are are guns, killing, and hatred. But of course they are so happy and cordial with each other as they discuss how ignorant science and math are with each other. I have 6 acres, two houses with a sweet stream running down the middle of the property. I built an arched bridge so I can mow both sides easily. My Dad has lived here his whole life, and I want to be with him for his last few years. I thank the stars he hasn't gone the way of everyone else. But as soon as he is gone, I am sure I will be too. I would love to live here till I die, but not with so much hatred proudly being displayed on every bumper and even on church signs. How respectful of women's rights do you think the people are here? Violently against them. I stopped and took on a preacher and 20 others who were attacking women trying to go to a woman's healthcare clinic in Bristol. The bible absolutely demands that babies are aborted, and I pointed it out to the attackers, and even though they could see in black and white that was the truth, it still didn't matter because it is still necessary to control all women to maintain the patriarchy. I know you know that what I am saying is absolutely true. It is good to live your home, and be caring and giving with your neighbors. But those days are burning down and being replaced with hatred and violence. This isn't a bad apple. It is a cancer.

@@annjames1837 sorry, your the liar. You don't know me, but please tell me how much everyone here can't stand Trump and all the lies that pervert spews every single day.... Oh, you love him for spouting racist, homophobic, anti feminist violence influencing lies? Maybe that is why you think everyone is so warm and wonderful here. Maybe it's the way they hold guns up to people's faces and dare them to vote for any gun legislation... Just warms my heart.

Wow... what a ignored comment!

@@traceybanks3525 yeah, my comment was definitely ignored. You’re the first one to reply.

No, minorities are not welcomed. Xenophobia central is the whole Tri-Cities area. They can't handle a white person with a last name different from the ten they grew up with.