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View Poll Results: The Tennessee Effect. Tn Future Growth Rate/Pattern
Tn Future Growth will be concentrated in/around Nashville 12 37.50%
Tn Future Growth will Spread to other areas of The State 20 62.50%
Voters: 32. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 03-23-2024, 07:04 AM
 
Location: Vermont
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I do not want Tennessee to grow. Period.
I want to move to TN. I am a quiet retired person who values the outdoors and a peaceful, rural existence. We visited twice a few years back and I am really ready to go this time.
I'd like to find a fairly prosperous middle, upper middle class retirement community, if that's even possible. If not, a small piece of land with a little house on it.

Can I come?
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Old 03-23-2024, 07:48 AM
 
Location: Knoxville, TN
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I want to move to TN. I am a quiet retired person who values the outdoors and a peaceful, rural existence. We visited twice a few years back and I am really ready to go this time.
I'd like to find a fairly prosperous middle, upper middle class retirement community, if that's even possible. If not, a small piece of land with a little house on it.

Can I come?
Before you choose a truly rural area of Tennessee, be sure that you would have access to services to meet your healthcare needs now and in the future.

"The number of healthcare deserts in Tennessee makes it 15th in the nation. Twenty-three of its 95 counties, representing more than 36% of the state's population, or approximately 2.5 million residents, are designated as healthcare deserts, and slightly more than 27% of that population is rural."

https://www.healthleadersmedia.com/i...n%20is%20rural.
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Old 03-23-2024, 04:49 PM
 
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Before you choose a truly rural area of Tennessee, be sure that you would have access to services to meet your healthcare needs now and in the future.

"The number of healthcare deserts in Tennessee makes it 15th in the nation. Twenty-three of its 95 counties, representing more than 36% of the state's population, or approximately 2.5 million residents, are designated as healthcare deserts, and slightly more than 27% of that population is rural."

https://www.healthleadersmedia.com/i...n%20is%20rural.

Agree. I'm trying to narrow down areas at this point. I will take into consideration the availability of good medical care. I'll check out the link you provided.
There was a big medical center in Johnson City last time I was there.

I'd prefer to stay east of Knoxville but have some feelers out to some old friends who moved south of Nashville (not sure where).
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Old 03-23-2024, 05:53 PM
 
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Agree. I'm trying to narrow down areas at this point. I will take into consideration the availability of good medical care. I'll check out the link you provided.
There was a big medical center in Johnson City last time I was there.

I'd prefer to stay east of Knoxville but have some feelers out to some old friends who moved south of Nashville (not sure where).
We retired in the Johnson City area and like it. The medical center and the ETSU medical school was a draw for us.

When considering the Nashville area, one must be aware of possible tornados which are not as much an issue in NE Tennessee.
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Old 03-23-2024, 08:24 PM
 
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We retired in the Johnson City area and like it. The medical center and the ETSU medical school was a draw for us.

When considering the Nashville area, one must be aware of possible tornados which are not as much an issue in NE Tennessee.
Indeed!!! I have heard that upper east is less prone to tornadoes.
I'm now checking some crime statistics. Not keen on moving anywhere with known problems although I realize everywhere has some type of crime. I'm retired and want a quiet existence w/out too much worry, if at all possible. thank you.
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Old 03-24-2024, 06:39 AM
 
Location: Vermont
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Found this in my travels on the web yesterday.

https://www.safewise.com/blog/safest...nnessee/#city1
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Old 03-24-2024, 03:01 PM
 
Location: Knoxville, TN
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Agree. I'm trying to narrow down areas at this point. I will take into consideration the availability of good medical care. I'll check out the link you provided.
There was a big medical center in Johnson City last time I was there.

I'd prefer to stay east of Knoxville but have some feelers out to some old friends who moved south of Nashville (not sure where).
I am in Knox County and I have had no issues getting medical care here. I have heard there can be long waits for certain specialists, but I think that is probably true in most places.
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Old 03-25-2024, 01:07 AM
 
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Indeed!!! I have heard that upper east is less prone to tornadoes.
I'm now checking some crime statistics. Not keen on moving anywhere with known problems although I realize everywhere has some type of crime. I'm retired and want a quiet existence w/out too much worry, if at all possible. thank you.
If you're willing to be 40 minutes from major medical care, you could check out Greene County. It is generally quiet, peaceful and live and let live, with low crime other than drug-on-drug type stuff. (In other words, if you're not interacting with drug folks... you're probably okay.)

There is a basic hospital there (Ballad), but any real emergency will go to JCMC (Johnson City). As with all of East TN, anything actually serious will go to Knoxville if not Vanderbilt.
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Old 03-25-2024, 07:44 AM
 
Location: TN/NC
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If you're willing to be 40 minutes from major medical care, you could check out Greene County. It is generally quiet, peaceful and live and let live, with low crime other than drug-on-drug type stuff. (In other words, if you're not interacting with drug folks... you're probably okay.)

There is a basic hospital there (Ballad), but any real emergency will go to JCMC (Johnson City). As with all of East TN, anything actually serious will go to Knoxville if not Vanderbilt.
FYI - that hospital is now known as Greeneville Community Hospital East. Services have really been hollowed out from where they were ten or five years ago.

GCHE, formerly Laughlin Memorial Hospital, was previously owned by Mountain States, and prior to that, was owned by an out-of-state health system. What used to be Greeneville Community Hospital West, formerly Takoma Regional Hospital, seems to be closed altogether. At least that's how it looked when I drove by there a couple months ago.

Greeneville's hospital is basically a glorified urgent care at this point. As mentioned, anything semi-serious gets bounced to Johnson City, but the JC Medical Center is also terrible.

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We retired in the Johnson City area and like it. The medical center and the ETSU medical school was a draw for us.
My grandmother had "chest pain" a few weeks ago, and went to Franklin Woods Community Hospital's emergency room. She showed up around 4 in the afternoon, and wasn't looked at until the wee hours of the following morning. My other grandmother had a stroke, was sent to a hospital in Kingsport that had a rapid response stroke team a few months before this occurred, but that stroke coverage was eliminated in those few months. She had a wait of over ten hours with obvious stroke symptoms before being triaged.

JCMC is easily the busiest of any hospital in the region, because cases that used to be able to be handled at Holston Valley in Kingsport or Bristol Regional now end up at JCMC. It's created a crush of patients with all sorts of conditions without the level of staffing to support them.

JCMC is a one-star hospital per the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare. This is a good article regarding the issues there.

The bottom line is that any kind of decent, acute care is at least an hour and a half away. The ETSU physician group has some specialist care, State of Franklin Healthcare Associates and Holston Medical Group offer some good specialist and some ambulatory/outpatient care, but again, they're relatively small and not "full-service" in many areas. For many things, you're having to go to Knoxville to find anything remotely competent.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...e/70975091007/

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Old 03-25-2024, 08:57 AM
 
Location: Bellevue
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Indeed!!! I have heard that upper east is less prone to tornadoes.
I'm now checking some crime statistics. Not keen on moving anywhere with known problems although I realize everywhere has some type of crime. I'm retired and want a quiet existence w/out too much worry, if at all possible. thank you.
Another area to check out is Cookeville-Crossville. Maybe 2 hours from Nashville & an hour to Knoxville via I-40. At the beginning of the plateau so you have some big hills.
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