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Old 05-27-2018, 09:16 AM
 
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Nashville gets a spike in Transplants from Chicago and they seem to love it... https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.wsm...go-transplants
I don't know about en masse, but we have a Facebook group.
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Old 05-27-2018, 10:52 AM
 
Location: Where the heart is...
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Nashville gets a spike in Transplants from Chicago and they seem to love it... https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.wsm...go-transplants
Yes I do love it here. It didn't surprise me that I would love it here as much as I do as my father is from Tennessee.

So immensely in fact that I will never be moving again.
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Old 05-27-2018, 12:34 PM
 
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My dad is old school. He moved from Chicago in 1982 and has never looked back. Visionary!
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Old 05-27-2018, 03:24 PM
 
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The article says Chicago ranks 5th on the list of metro areas that people are moving from to Nashville. That statement begs a few questions:

(1.) How many individual Chicagoans are we talking about that have left Chicago for Nashville? Hundreds? Thousands?

(2.) If Chicago is #5, what are the top 4 metros that people are moving from to Nashville?

(3.) Is Nashville the destination city of most of the 30,000 people who have left Chicago in the past few years?
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Old 05-27-2018, 03:46 PM
 
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My dad is old school. He moved from Chicago in 1982 and has never looked back. Visionary!
My dad was old school as well. After serving in the Civilian Conservation Corps and WWII he moved to Chicago for employment in order to support his siblings and never looked back. Necessary!

He is buried there alongside my mother and one of my brothers.
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Old 05-27-2018, 07:30 PM
 
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My dad was old school as well. After serving in the Civilian Conservation Corps and WWII he moved to Chicago for employment in order to support his siblings and never looked back. Necessary!

He is buried there alongside my mother and one of my brothers.
Sorry to hear about your loss but my post was laced with sarcasm. Much of my family still lives near Chicago
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Old 05-28-2018, 06:25 AM
 
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Sorry to hear about your loss but my post was laced with sarcasm. Much of my family still lives near Chicago
Thank you Drake for your condolences, I did not see your post as sarcastic at all, sincerely I did not.

My parents (my mother is from Kentucky) left their families because they were poor and Chicago was a huge opportunity for them to escape poverty and in that regard, they succeeded in achieving their American Dream.

Interesting article on the migration of southern whites to Chicago and I would say it is a fair description of the intolerance which some southern whites may have experienced at that time.

Chicago’s Hillbilly Problem During the Great Migration

In the postwar years, the mass migration of Southerners to Chicago caused substantial cultural tensions in the city—and of great official concern were the Appalachians who settled in Uptown and their “primitive jungle tactics.”

Authorities are reluctant to point a finger at any one segment of the population or nationality group, but they agree that the southern hillbilly migrants, who have descended on Chicago like a plague of locusts in the last few years, have the lowest standard of living and moral code [if any] of all, the biggest capacity for liquor, and the most savage and vicious tactics when drunk, which is most of the time.

Chicago
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Old 05-15-2019, 06:06 PM
 
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Default Moving from chicago burbs to tenessee

My husbands company is moving us to tenessee. His office is in hermitage. I have 3 young adult kids coming with us and need to know of a great area to move to. I don't know what areas are safe...we live in the burbs of chicago now and are going to sell our house. Thanks!
Edited to add....we are a christian family and conservative ....we are Trump supporters.. I'm slightly nervous about this move and hoping to get some input.

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Old 05-15-2019, 07:33 PM
 
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My family moved from Chicago in 2013. I would suggest Franklin or Brentwood-great public schools, super safe, and very religious communities. Plus they are in Williamson County which is well-funded unlike most of the broke suburbs in the Chicago metro area. I wouldn't say we are totally conservative but we do lean more right than left and have found Franklin to be a good place for us.
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Old 05-15-2019, 08:06 PM
 
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My husbands company is moving us to tenessee. His office is in hermitage. I have 3 young adult kids coming with us and need to know of a great area to move to. I don't know what areas are safe...we live in the burbs of chicago now and are going to sell our house. Thanks!
Edited to add....we are a christian family and conservative ....we are Trump supporters.. I'm slightly nervous about this move and hoping to get some input.
I would first look in Mt. Juliet as Franklin would be a 45 minute commute every day. It's a nice suburb only a few minutes from Hermitage. The schools are very good in Mt. Juliet and it's a safe area with lots of shopping in Providence district. You're also relatively close to both lakes for recreation, airport, Grand Ole Opry and Opry Mills Mall.

Mt. Juliet is very conservative compared to surrounding areas. Which sounds like it would be a plus for your family.
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