Living in the South

My wife and I live in East TN between Greeneville and Knoxville.  We are 30-40 minutes away from the Great Smoky Mountains, an hour away from the Bristol Motor Speedway and Dollywood; just thirty more minutes to Gatlinburg.

I have lived in East TN since 1990, and my second wife has lived here since 1978.  We both love this area more than other places we've lived; she is from Virginia, I'm from North Carolina.

When I first got here, TN was considered a back water state and ten years behind the times.  However, Knoxville is the home to the University of TN and just a few miles up the road is OAK RIDGE and Oak Ridge National Labs which receives 80% of DOE's budget and is currently working on a miniature nuclear reactor that will power spaceships.

In addition to Oak Ridge, Gatlinburg, Dollywood, Great Smoky Mountains, U of TN, and NASCAR, TN is the home to country music and NASHVILLE about 3-4 hours away from where we live.

East TN, is a low cost of living area, plenty of land, laid back lifestyle, southern hospitality, minimal crime, low smog, outstanding annual climate and home to Cherokee and Douglas lakes and a multitude of picnic and camping areas, fishing, hiking, and RV parks to take care of all your needs.

People from the north move down to Florida for warmth and sunshine, find Florida not the ideal place to live, and move halfway back to where they started which puts them in East TN.  We call them HALFBACKS.

Check it out but don't move here as we like it just the way it is...   LOL