Anyone in Nashville area from Phoenix, Az?

[Diane Giam]

Originally Posted by alleycat

I think 2004idiot was referring to Nashville, Taterhead (nice username, by the way). We're getting a slight inkling that 2004idiot doesn't like it much here. Or us. ;-)

Allycat I moved here a little over a year ago from NJ. I love it here. Maybe taterhead hasn't met the right people. I never really felt that NJ was my home. I was miserable there.
I went to college in Clarksville, many years ago , and always wanted to come back. We were finally able to when my husband asked for a transfer to his company's main office here. It took him years to get me back, but he did. My daughter went to HS here for her entire senior year and now is a freshman, at MTSU.

tO THE OP, there are people from all over here. I have met people relocated from all over the country. I belong to Nashville New Neighbors and its been a great way to meet people.

Diane

Diane G

[Taterhead]

Originally Posted by WantingoutofAz

Taterhead,

I also am in a safer part of the Phoenix area (Arrowhead area) but know that the crime keeps creeping farther and farther out. Crime is not one of the major reasons I would like to move from Phoenix.

Why are you considering leaving Phoenix? You live in a nice area and have Desert Ridge so close, lucky. Have you visited Nashville before? Why Nashville? Are you considering any other places? I am a native of Phoenix and have visited Nashville twice. We loved it and are looking forward to moving there hopefully next spring. Being a native of Phoenix, I have seen it go through so many changes and it is not the same place I grew up. I have just really felt over the past 2-3 years that Phoenix is not where I want to raise my children. Our house has been on the market since March and so we are waiting for it to sell. The market here is awful as I am sure you know.

I have lived here since May of 1996, and yes I have seen it grow as well, way more people have moved here since I came. I know of the crime you speak of. I too lisen to the news, but crime is only in certain parts of town, like any place would have.

I am moving because I hate the heat and rock frontyards. I miss green, I lived most of my life in San Diego until I met my husband in 1989 and moved to Dallas, then here in 96.

I am very surprised to read that ther is sexist/racist there in Nashville. I have been reading City data for months now and most people say it's a happy place and sooooooo pretty. I will take a visit to see it next year, so i hope it lives up to the hype.

And yes I am very lucky I live near lots of stuff like Desert Ridge

[lakerat]

Just an opinion from some one who has moved from Az. to Tenn.
I originally grew up in San Diego and lived there for 50 years. I was of the opinion that San Diego was the ONLY place to live. After I retired 4 years ago my wife and I sold our house in Ramona and moved to a house she owned at Martinez Lake/Yuma, Arizona on the Colorado River.

It had been a lot of fun to visit the river for boating weekends but to live there full time during the summer got to us after a couple years. When your summer daytime temps are 110+ and nighttime temps are in the 90s it stops being enjoyable real soon. I do admit that winter in Arizona is very pleasant.

About a year and a half ago my wife's sons moved their families to the Nashville area because their jobs brought them here. We decided to get us a small summer house here to visit the kids and grandkids during the summer and return to Arizona for the winter. Well, one thing led to another and we ended up upgrading a little by getting a house on Old Hickory Lake in Hendersonville in March of 06. We spent the summer of 06 here in Hendersonville remodeling our recently purchased house. I quickly began to appreciate the area. We found the people here very freindly and courtious.

The humidity here is a bit higher than Arizona but give me 90-95 temps with a little higher humidity over the 110+ temps day after day, not to mention the ocassional Arizona monsoons with 100+ temps.

As it turned out, some one approached us and made us an offer on our Arizona house we could not refuse so we are now full time Tennessee residents here in Hendersonville. My wife and I have had numerous discussions and both agree we will never move back out west, either Arizona or San Diego. San Diego was nice years ago, and I'm sure it still is but, it just got too big and too busy for us. I think Phoenix is even busier than San Diego.

This is the opinion of one transplant who has had a great experience here in Tennessee.

Good luck if you do decide on the Nashville area. We love it here.

[WantingoutofAz]

Originally Posted by lakerat

Just an opinion from some one who has moved from Az. to Tenn.
I originally grew up in San Diego and lived there for 50 years. I was of the opinion that San Diego was the ONLY place to live. After I retired 4 years ago my wife and I sold our house in Ramona and moved to a house she owned at Martinez Lake/Yuma, Arizona on the Colorado River.

It had been a lot of fun to visit the river for boating weekends but to live there full time during the summer got to us after a couple years. When your summer daytime temps are 110+ and nighttime temps are in the 90s it stops being enjoyable real soon. I do admit that winter in Arizona is very pleasant.

About a year and a half ago my wife's sons moved their families to the Nashville area because their jobs brought them here. We decided to get us a small summer house here to visit the kids and grandkids during the summer and return to Arizona for the winter. Well, one thing led to another and we ended up upgrading a little by getting a house on Old Hickory Lake in Hendersonville in March of 06. We spent the summer of 06 here in Hendersonville remodeling our recently purchased house. I quickly began to appreciate the area. We found the people here very freindly and courtious.

The humidity here is a bit higher than Arizona but give me 90-95 temps with a little higher humidity over the 110+ temps day after day, not to mention the ocassional Arizona monsoons with 100+ temps.

As it turned out, some one approached us and made us an offer on our Arizona house we could not refuse so we are now full time Tennessee residents here in Hendersonville. My wife and I have had numerous discussions and both agree we will never move back out west, either Arizona or San Diego. San Diego was nice years ago, and I'm sure it still is but, it just got too big and too busy for us. I think Phoenix is even busier than San Diego.

This is the opinion of one transplant who has had a great experience here in Tennessee.

Good luck if you do decide on the Nashville area. We love it here.

Thanks lakerat, I enjoyed reading your story. I personally think San Diego is as good as it gets weatherwise and with beache so close so if you like Nashville even better that is great. It is funny the whole debate about lower temps/higher humdity vs. higher temps/lower humidity. I am of the mindset that 80's with humidity is much more pleasant than 110/115 with low humidity. But that is just me. Glad you got out of your Az home. We have been trying to sell for 7+ months with no luck. If we can finally sell then we will be Nashville bound.

Thanks again for sharing.

[lakerat]

Glad I could help a little. Yes, SD is nice but fires can be bad. Ours house almost burned down 4 years ago in the Cedar fire. They lost somewhere around 2000 homes in that one.