Middle Tn has more jobs but it’s not worth it ! East Tn by far is the most beautiful with beautiful ppl as well ! East Tn has jobs just not as many as Nashville though ! I love the sense of God Family and Country that East Tn has and so east tn gets my vote !! I’ve lived in both for about 25 years so I can vote fairly ! Hopefully east Tn keeps its sense of authenticity!!!
I'm from The Knoxville Area (Maryville). I have visited Nashville several times & really Enjoyed it. But I'm glad I live here in East Tennessee. It's Always nice to visit the Beautiful Smoky Mountains. And it's A very short drive.
Lived in Chattanooga (east Tennessee) all but 1 year of my life 68 yrs. Love everything about the east side of Tennessee. Lived in Nashville 1 year. Middle Tennessee is nice but they have worse weather, bad storms is the only negative thing I can say about the area. Both are excellent places.
We visited Johnson City area 2 months ago, and OMG, we LOVED it! We want to retire in that area in 8-10 years from NJ due to its beauty, less people, and cost. Met the nicest people there too!!
@@jeremiahsneed5709 Does it always feel humid there? I’ve been tracking the weather in JC everyday and the humidity is always high. I live in PNW and our humidity is always lower, even when it is raining here. Besides the beauty here, that’s about the only thing good about this crazy state now.
@@truthprevails7085 I say not but I lived in western LA and southeast GA I don’t think about it at all,my gf and I when to my hometown in middle TN said the Humidity is my more there
My son and his wife just moved to the red state of Knoxville Tennessee yesterday from crazy Portland Oregon! He’s and chiropractor and she’s a nurse! They’re looking for a home!
We hope they don't bring the Portland liberal mentality with them.. the progressive liberals have escaped NYC, California, Portland, etc because of the riots and lockdowns yet it seems to me many still think like a liberal that has destroyed the nation..
We moved from Fallbrook California a little over a year ago after retiring from the military, we had a small home on a small property and bought a diamond of a home and property in New Market. We went from a one acre lot and a 1350 sq ft home to a 3400 sq ft foot home on ten acres with deer, turkeys and zero neighbor's with the same exact mortgage. I could not imagine living in a city with almost or over four million people a still growing. If you are in the market for a huge home and property, East Tennessee is the place to live. As for the gas lines, we have a buried five hundred gallon propane tank fifty yards from our home that on one refill, provides our needs for an entire year and you do not need flat ground for this benefit, just hire the right company. Tri Light internet and cable is a perfect fit for even the most rural East Tennessee living.
Yeah, THANKS, because of people just like you, most Tennesseans can no longer afford to own a home...in their OWN state...because people like you cause our prices to shoot through the roof, while our pay stays the same. The vast majority or real Tennesseans wish that y'all would just STAY where you are and make changes in your own state's leadership!!!
@@TennRides I believe that the current political climate, along with poor policies put in place by our elected officials in D.C., has had a greater effect on the local housing market than those coming in from out-of-state. I do acknowledge that supply and demand come into play, but it's only part of the picture. It appears that you underestimate the hold that progressive politics has over the California's political landscape. I invite you to spend a year or two there to experience it. Not interested? I don't blame you. When two out of three residents favor the current governor and what he brings to the table, it doesn't take complicated mathematics to see why conservatives are leaving in droves. For me, it was the beauty of Appalachia that drew me to East Tennessee, along with it's centralized location to most of the eastern seaboard and the Midwest. Anyway, I respect your opinion, but it appears we disagree on why the market is the way it is.
@@TennRides This is a horrible comment.. telling people not to move somewhere and to just be a prisoner to where they were born is ridiculous. You can't afford to own a home in your own state not due to increased population but due to inflation, poor federal policy etc. It's not just supply & demand.
@@xclusiv_z34 I see the people fleeing those states as cowards. They keep quiet and allowed the state to get so out of control. Many of the ones moving to my home state are in fact liberals. They could no longer afford to live in the chaos THEY voted into power, etc. Then they move here and want to elect the same kind of idiots that ruined THEIR state. Makes absolutely no sense. Why would I even want to remotely live in Californication's current situation? I don't need to see, or be bitten by, a skunk to know it is there. It is more than just the increase in property values, thus increase in our taxes with income that does not adjust to keep up with it, but it is also the HUGE increase in crime, especially crimes we never used to see in this part of the state. There is an increase in gang activity, again, something we never really had to deal with, violent crimes, traffic jams, etc, etc, and etc. I don't know any true Tennessean that is happy with so many of y'all moving here and destroying our way of life. Be tough, stand your ground, and go home and fix your own damn state, instead of ruining ours!!!
She said that the Appalachians are ancient, which is very true. They existed before Pangaea was formed, and I have been told that they might be the second oldest mountain range in the world.
Moved from OC CA to OC TN, now have fiber optic internet to the farm, middle Tennessee and the Cumberland Plateau is special. Come for the freedom and stay for the internet speeds…
As I am looking for peace and quiet to enjoy my retirement in, high employment/high population areas are what I am looking to avoid. Give me a small town along the eastern edge of the state with a great view of those beautiful Smoky Mountains and I will be a happy fellow.
We just moved last year from Florida where we lived for 60+ years. We are proud homeowners of a just under 5 acre, 4/3 country home in Soddy Daisy, just outside of Chattanooga. Living on a side of a mountain is quite a bit different than living in flat Florida! The people here are great, extremely friendly, and helpful. The cost of living is cheaper than Florida, as well. I still haven't figured out the taxes here though! Hope you pick Chattanooga as your retirement center! You won't regret it!
Thank you Bonnie, I've been looking more to the NE part of Tennessee. Newport, Morristown, Bristol, Kingsport area lately. But I'll be glad to give your area another look. Still a few months from getting out of California and heading that direction. Glad you found such an amazing place.
@@Wulfdon If you find Kingsport to your liking then you may want to look at Johnson City or Elizabethton too. Depending on just what you are looking for. Both are in the upper Northeastern section.
My parents are from Stoney Creek, just east of Elizabethton. growing up, we'd visit the area at least once a year. I LOVE the area, and always have even though I haven't been back for a few years. The hills, the people; it's all great. the economy has been the pits since the depression, though, as all the heavy industry is gone (even the railroad got ripped up a few years back). I've also been the rest of the state. One word; MEH. There's nothing special about anything west of Knoxville, for me
I don't have time at the moment to listen to this entire video. I am less than three minutes into it, and as someone from northeast TN, and for the last 20 years near Murfreesboro, TN I would like to say, "DON"T move to TN!" I left Johnson City because there was far too many outsiders moving in and making our property values, hence taxes, go through the roof, but our pay didn't increase to keep up with it. The crime also shot through the roof and we started seeing crimes we never used to even hear about when I was younger. When I move to the 'Boro, it was my favorite place ever. However, the last 5-7 years it has become just as bad as Nashville! A once delightful town has become full of drug addicts, rapists, murderers, thieves, and home values have skyrocketed, again, along with my property taxes, but our pay didn't go up to keep the same pace. All these outsiders coming in at record breaking numbers may be great to make a killing as a real estate agent, but y'all are hurting the majority of Tennesseans like me and my family. If people want to make this like Chicago, live there, if they want it to be like LA, live there, if they want it to be like Detroit, live there...Please, quit coming HERE and ruining it for those of us from here!
@@noeldee9236 Or Arizona becoming California. I have two brothers that moved there MANY years ago, they are tired of all the people trying to escape the People's Republic of Californication. Now they are ruining AZ, too.
As someone with roots in Tennessee who grew up in NU/NY, I’m tired of hearing south/Midwest people complaining about New Yorkers/Californias all being terrible people and clogging up the “red” states when frankly people/things are terrible everywhere. You really think the South was this perfect place with no rape/murder/crime until those darned carpetbaggers brought it in? And you think TN prices are getting too high with a lack of job/salary growth? I’m afraid to even tell you my rent in Queens because it might short-circuit your brain (because if TN is already too costly you don’t want to know how $ NYC gets). I don’t love the city, and frankly during covid times I hate it and want to move anywhere but here. There are many people from the “coastal lib” states who relate to my sentiment: we are not the people you need to worry about. And fortunately for every one person I hear bitching about us terrible blue staters, there are 3+ more southerners who are hospitable to me regardless of where I’m from. TN or NY: our enemies are still pretty much the same. Stop wasting your time hating everyone who moves to TN. Otherwise go move somewhere cheaper than TN and enjoy having people in that state turn YOU into a scapegoat for all problems
@@davish53 I highly doubt you have "roots" here. The area I live in did NOT have murders, rapes, robberies, etc, etc, and etc, UNTIL all you outsiders started bringing it in from your "Blue States" as you put it. People here left their doors unlocked, even on vacation, because nobody would come in and rob you while you slept, or cut your throat and then rape your wife. Was there crime here in TN? Sure, but it was in cities like Memphis and Nashville, NOT smaller, or I should say used to be smaller, communities like near where I live. Sure prices are much higher where you live...prices are always higher, as is the crime rates, in blue cities and states!!! You also get paid a LOT more money than we do. That is how so many are moving here, paying cash for homes, and forcing our home values, and thus taxes, through the roof. Because they earn more money, and paid more for their house back in the stink-hole city they came from, they can pay cash for houses here and shoot off their mouths how cheap it is compared to "back where I came from" and real estate goes up thanks to them. It is a good deal for outsiders, but a HORRIBLE for us Tennesseans. I can't believe you are stupid enough, or have the audacity to suggest that I should move away from my own state to find a less expensive place to live!!! What a simple minded jackass you are!!! Why the H should Tennesseans be forced to leave their homes so outside liberal pricks can steal our land, as it were? I have a better idea, why don't y'all just stay where the H you are, fix your own problems by no longer voting into power communists that call themselves Democrats, but in reality want to do nothing but destroy our once great and mighty nation. Don't try to ruin it for us, fix your own shit and stay where you are!!! Oh, and the people you claim to know in TN that treat you well, are likely not born and raised here!!! One last thing, I do NOT hate all the people moving here, many are fine folks, but on the other hand MANY of them are bringing their gang banger kids with them, and the parents STILL lack the parenting skills to stop their punk kids from being hood rats. Thus, they come here and start gangs, etc. Now even in the once great city of Murfreesboro, TN we have gangs, drugs, violence, and....you get my point.
@@davish53 agree!!! Gee whiz where is the compassion for those of us who are suffering with through the roof cost of living and lunatics running their state. I’m speaking of California of course.
East TN - safer weather (less tornadoes), a great mix of mountains, hills, and flat land, cheaper property prices, more conservative, less traffic, and slower growth.
The Tri Cities In Northeast Tennessee(Kingsport, Bristol, Johnson City) is home to Pals Drive through, The one regional burger chain that could take down In-and-Out burger from California or Whataburger from Texas without even batting an eye. East Tennessee wins on this alone!
Make sure to check out the "sister video" on Knoxville vs Murfreesboro that is on Rachael's RU-vid channel 👉 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-d_LgY8_htDo.html
I live in se minnesota, looking into different state options but I want to stay along side the Mississippi River. What are the winters like in east TN?
Any recommendations for area in East TN where it's not get overpopulated? Can still have somewhat small town feel, hospitals for work and good Calvary christian schools? Just visited maryville on recommendation wow is it sad. Every field torn up for homes. Need be 40 minutes out knoxville to not be in city life.
East TN vs Mid TN... This might seem like a dumb question, but... what distance are we talking in driving time? Im in SoCalif, to drive from LA to SF, that is a 8-9 hour drive. LA to Oregon State line is 12-14 hours or more. LA to Las Vegas is about 4 hours, and its through the ugliest desert in the World, parts of it is even call "Death Valley" (REALLY) Question, TN seems like a small State, but also mostly small 'poor' roads..? Are we talking 2 hours Nashville to Knoxville? Is that a 2 lane road or 4 lanes? What speed would be considered normal in TN... LA to SF, is 3-4 lanes each direction, traveling about 70-80mph most of the way. So.. Distance = Time to travel + roads, road condition + speed.. Any help?
Hi! Downtown Knoxville to Downtown Nashville is about a 2.5 - 3 hour drive... depending on who's driving. 😂 The drive from one to the other is all on I-40 which is our major East to West interstate. Most places this is a 4 lane interstate, BUT it does get wider in both metro Knox and metro Nashville. I hope this helps.
You live in Knoxville, just mentioned UT and showed a picture of Neyland Stadium and you say Bristol, attended by about 2500 people now because NASCAR is failing, is the biggest sporting event in East Tennessee? UT football alone has a 400 million dollar a year impact on the Knox County economy. It is by far the most popular sports team in the state and blows away anything any other area of the state produces, including the Titans and the hockey team that no one in the state cares about outside of Nashville.
You are 100% correct and I see what you are saying. I was thinking for on the professional side, but also, I fully admit - I am just a disappointed UT football fan.
Hi Susan! This is a great question. I will make video about it. Do you live in Athens and want to see more content on it or are you wanting more information on it?
@@HaleyJonesRealtor my son and family just moved there. I will be following soon but there’s so many towns close by that I’m not sure what or where to look around at things. Hoping if weather permits I’ll move in the next few months
Athens is awesome. Great location, really nice houses are being built. I would have bought there but I could not find a property because they sold super fast.
That’s a silly statement. Nothing wrong with Newport or Cocke county, yes it has had a bad rep in the past but it’s really changed if I believe the stories I’ve heard. I live between Newport and Cosby in the mountains, it’s amazing here I love it.
I recently made NETN (Johnson City) my home; and I came from California. It surprises me none whatsoever that Tennessee is having a migration boom. It is unfortunate that the housing supply is not keeping up with demand, but there are other factors in play that has made it difficult to buy (or rent). Wages definitely have not kept up with the cost-of-living, of which seems to be one of the major contributors. The people are great here, but expect some ribbing if you come from out-of-state. Most of the kidding is in fun, but there are a few folks out there don't adapt to change very well. Honestly, I can't blame them. That said, we are all Americans, and that is a blessing that some see past this day and age.
East Tn is the best place to be if your retired. Middle to West Tn sucks! If your still working then I give Tn a F for jobs because most are low paying and below poverty. If you want small town and super nice people then East Tn is where it is at. If you like high crime then you will like middle and West Tn. If you want to pay more money for a home or rent then you will like Middle and West Tn. But for me you could not pay me enough to live in the piss holes of middle and West Tn..
