In this tread I introduced myself as a "good Yankee" looking to move to southeastern, TN in two years. I am making my transition from service manager of my company here in the Worker's Paradise of Illinois, to being "just" a field service tech covering all of the US, Canada and other countries. The transition will take a while, but I look forward to be done with the bullshit and frustration of being in management with more freedom, less responsibility and the same pay.
Now that it is actually happening, and our move may now happen in 1 year and not 2, I am thinking being closer to the Nashville airport, rather than Knoxville would be the wiser choice. So I have started searching on Zillow and I am finding quite a few interesting properties around Nashville, 30-60 minutes from the BNA airport. I started looking on the east side, out from 64, since that is where BNA is. I would rather go no further than Murfreesboro and a similar radius nearby.
I very strongly prefer to be in a conservative county. I would like to have a minimum of a 1 acre lot and I would love 5, if I can afford it and if the site is level enough to build on and can pass a percs test for a 3 bedroom/3 bath house. The max I can pay now is $100,000, but I would like to come in at half of that.
The funny/sad thing is, you can't swing a dead cat here without hitting an Illinois serf that is planning to move to TN. My wild ass guess is that 60% of those people are someone I would want as a neighbor, 25% independent and the rest are varying degree of liberal and I wish they would go somewhere else.
Any advice helping in my search is greatly appreciated