What city in Tennessee should I move to?

Question

I am considering moving to Tennessee. I was told Memphis or the near suburban area. I need to be in a location where school is good (elementary). job market is good as well as affordable apartments-townhomes. A place that is somewhat similiar to living in Chicago, Illinois but maybe a little cheaper. What are your suggestions?

Answer 1

Besides getting a local real estate agent to help you, you might want to check these links in where you can research information on any area that might be of interest to you.
To check general information about the state and the government that runs the state go here:
STATE’S WEB SITE: http://www.tennessee.gov/
For health issues especially if you have children go here:
EPA: Finding out about your local drinking water quality: http://www.epa.gov/safewater/dwinfo/index.html
EPA: Drinking water in Schools and Child Care Facilities: http://www.epa.gov/safewater/schools/index.html
Before choosing an area to live in you might want to check this site also:
FBI Sex offender web sites for all states: http://www.fbi.gov/hq/cid/cac/states.htm
You might want to research the weather history of the area you might choose by going here:
National Weather Service: http://www.nws.noaa.gov/
To research demographics on a particular city you might want to check this site:
Information on any city in the USA: http://www.bestplaces.net/
Since you mentioned schools as an important search category you might want to check this site for the schools in the area that you choose to look at:
Information on any school: http://www.greatschools.net/
If you have specific cities or counties you want to research this link will allow you to find their individual web sites:
Search for cities & Counties in the US: http://www.naco.org/Template.cfm?Section=Data_and_Demographics&Template=/cffiles/counties/city_srch.cfm
To look at available properties you might want to go through this link:
Finding available real estate in the US through REALTORS®: http://realtor.com/Default.asp?poe=realtor
To check crime in the area that you choose go to this link:
FBI: Crime reports for each State: http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/05cius/data/table_08.html
Lots of information but you can't go wrong with it.
Buena Suerte

Answer 2

There isn't anywhere in Tennessee that is similar to living in Chicago, so you should get that out of your head now. I think your best bets would be Memphis, Nashville, or Knoxville. They all have things to recommend them. You should contact the Chamber of Commerce in each city for information on relocating there. That should give you your answer. Good luck.

Answer 3

specific, Memphis is extremely a city crammed with music. optimal bar/ingesting places have stay leisure (no longer the chains). On Beale St. ( a nicely-customary tourist allure), there is stay leisure 7 days/nights each and every week. there is an astonishing type of genres. bypass to Rum Boogie Cafe for soul, club 152 for the 80's (Rhoney G. is spectacular precise right here). there is likewise the nice and comfortable Daisy for punk, B.B. King's for the blues, Pat O'Brien's for consumer-friendly listening/piano, Alfred's for rock, demanding Rock Cafe for rock, Coyote grotesque for basic rock, and so on... There are additionally 3 or 4 outdoors tiers with categories of music. optimal of those places even have music early indoors the night/happy hour. you additionally could be taught lots approximately music precise right here- image voltaic Studio is an incredible expedition, so is the Rock n' Soul Museum (the two placed on the component to Beale St.) and desire I say, Graceland is an quite renowned landmark. Oh, and there is likewise karaoke on Beale St. In surrounding cities, we've stay music at ingesting places, regardless of the shown fact that it quite is constrained in hours, additionally in type. there is not any u . s . a . music precise right here, something that surprises each and each and all the travelers. i'm hoping you bypass to Memphis- the residing house of the blues and the birthplace of rock n' roll.

Answer 4

I don't knowTennessee that well, but here is a good resource to see what schools are like, housing prices, etc
http://www.trulia.com/real_estate/Memphis-Tennessee/
and
http://www.trulia.com/home_prices/Tennessee/Memphis-heat_map/
will show you a map by neighborhood on what historical sales prices as well as listing prices are doing. hope this helps.
You can research other cities here http://www.trulia.com/city/TN/