Leaving California - Moving to Tennessee

Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2020 5:01 pm

Well, me and my wife have decided it about time to leave California. I was born and raised on the Monterey Peninsula and I have spent nearly 60 years living in the area. 2018 I retired from the Fire Service and my wife position was eliminated from the property management company she was working for.

We decided that the cost of living, taxes and the changing dynamics of our state are just worth the cost.

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We have sold our home, packed our personal belongings in effort to hit the road to travel to Tennessee. Once we arrive in the area we will start the search for our forever home.

Hopefully, I will be able to find some talent in the area in an effort to complete my builds.

If you are on Facebook. We will be sure to post updates since we will traveling the Northern route to Tennessee.

Thanks for your support.

Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2020 5:18 pm

Good luck with the big move, I'll bet there lots of nice places to tempt you own the wa.

Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2020 6:12 pm

TCRacing wrote:

Well, me and my wife have decided it about time to leave California. I was born and raised on the Monterey Peninsula and I have spent nearly 60 years living in the area. 2018 I retired from the Fire Service and my wife position was eliminated from the property management company she was working for.

We decided that the cost of living, taxes and the changing dynamics of our state are just worth the cost.

http://tours.tourfactory.com/tours/tour.asp?t=2772735&guid=b1e3460c-1fdd-43d2-9b50-538c2e81c5f8&r=http%3A%2F%2Ffx%2Etourfactory%2Ecom%2FTour%2FDownloadPhotos%2F2772735

We have sold our home, packed our personal belongings in effort to hit the road to travel to Tennessee. Once we arrive in the area we will start the search for our forever home.

Hopefully, I will be able to find some talent in the area in an effort to complete my builds.

If you are on Facebook. We will be sure to post updates since we will traveling the Northern route to Tennessee.

Thanks for your support.

What county, city, town, village, unincorperated area or sticks are you moving to?

Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2020 6:31 pm

We are planning on the Knoxville area. Some where near the east side near the smoky mountains. I purchased a motorhome so we don’t have to worry about our accommodations. The housing market seem to be hot right now so we figured this would be a good option for us as well.

Thanks

Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2020 6:57 pm

Wow, good luck Todd.

Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2020 10:01 pm

TCRacing wrote:

We are planning on the Knoxville area. Some where near the east side near the smoky mountains. I purchased a motorhome so we don’t have to worry about our accommodations. The housing market seem to be hot right now so we figured this would be a good option for us as well.

Thanks

Interesting... I plan on moving to the Knoxville area within a couple of years - for the same reason! New York is another stupidly high tax/cost state.

Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2020 11:57 pm

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Interesting... I plan on moving to the Knoxville area within a couple of years - for the same reason! New York is another stupidly high tax/cost state.[/quote]

Brian I think you'll miss what NYC has to offer. Opera, theater, museums, music, great restaurants and of course Central Park, traffic and nice people. Laughing

Chico

Posted: Thu Oct 08, 2020 12:05 am

I’m sure I will miss a fair amount of the area of the center coast. San Francisco has a lot of food and culture to offer. Unfortunately, things have gotten to expensive to visit on a regular basis.

Posted: Thu Oct 08, 2020 1:05 am

chico wrote:

Brian I think you'll miss what NYC has to offer. Opera, theater, museums, music, great restaurants and of course Central Park, traffic and nice people. Laughing

Chico

Sorry Chico. Won't miss a damn thing about NYS. Not NYC tri-state and Long Island anyways.
Nashville, Lexington, Memphis and even Knoxville have plenty of culture. Besides, its closer to fantastic riding - not the milk runs here 😁. Won't miss the pugnacious/elitist attitude that is so prevalent downstate. Won't miss the incredibly ridiculous out of control cost of living. Albany continues to screw its citizens without batting an eye.

But I digress.... I will miss being able to get great pizza in TN. 😯

Posted: Thu Oct 08, 2020 1:28 am

Monterey Bay will miss you

Posted: Thu Oct 08, 2020 1:31 am

I have spent some travel time in Tennessee. I am quite sure you will love it there. It is also a central location for travel to Florida and in-between or some of the East coast cities. Lots of history in that area of the country. Good decision!

Posted: Thu Oct 08, 2020 1:42 am

BlueThunder wrote:

But I digress.... I will miss being able to get great pizza in TN. 😯

Depending where you wind up, you're gonna miss a whole hell of a lot more.

Posted: Thu Oct 08, 2020 1:45 am

CB1100F wrote:

BlueThunder wrote:

But I digress.... I will miss being able to get great pizza in TN. 😯

Depending where you wind up, you're gonna miss a whole hell of a lot more.

Doubt it. Spent quite a lot of time in TN over the years.

Posted: Thu Oct 08, 2020 1:41 pm

I'll be leaving Kaliforniakov as well... maybe a couple of year.
I totally see Tod's points as valid..... good luck brother , who knows we may be neighbors soon.

Posted: Thu Oct 08, 2020 2:54 pm

Have a good trip.

Posted: Sat Nov 07, 2020 2:06 pm

Here’s a quick run down of states we have traveled during our journey to Tennessee.

Nevada

Utah

Colorado

New Mexico

Oklahoma

Kansas

So far we dealt with very little weather related issues and seen some great scenery during our travels.

You can follow us on Facebook if you like to see some of the pictures we have posted.

Posted: Sat Nov 07, 2020 4:38 pm

Awesome Todd! Safe travels and thank you for all of your generosity before you left !

Posted: Sat Nov 07, 2020 4:55 pm

Happy travels. My thinking is that one can run, but can't hide. I like my area in SoCal for now. If proposition 13 ever gets squashed by the tax hungry libs, then I am gone.

Posted: Sun Nov 22, 2020 11:25 pm

I was trying to buy some parts from u earlier can’t remember which....anyway good luck in TN....u will b close to the Tail of the Dragon and other awesome driving roads....my younger son and I were down there earlier this yr in my Ferrari and I want to go back with the 1100F or GPz900R...also in Knoxville there is good BBQ...place called Sweet Ps in particular I’d recommend....I may go the opposite way and move to CA as I have one son there and one mayb going....

Posted: Mon Nov 23, 2020 12:00 am

I was trying to buy some parts from u earlier can’t remember which....anyway good luck in TN....u will b close to the Tail of the Dragon and other awesome driving roads....my younger son and I were down there earlier this yr in my Ferrari and I want to go back with the 1100F or GPz900R...also in Knoxville there is good BBQ...place called Sweet Ps in particular I’d recommend....I. At go the opposite way and move to CA as I have one sone there and one mayb going....

Posted: Mon Nov 23, 2020 12:01 am

We rolled into Tennessee on Saturday November 21st. and we will be spending our first week in the Crossville area. Now the fun part starts, searching for our forever home near the Smokey Mountains area.

Be safe and healthy everyone and Happy Holiday Season.

Posted: Mon Nov 30, 2020 10:34 pm

Good thing you're not moving to the Nashville area.. Davidson county just raised property taxes by 34%. My property taxes on my 1160 sq ft house on .22 acre just went from $1865/yr to $2499/yr.

Posted: Tue Dec 01, 2020 2:09 am

hogwild113 wrote:

Good thing you're not moving to the Nashville area.. Davidson county just raised property taxes by 34%. My property taxes on my 1160 sq ft house on .22 acre just went from $1865/yr to $2499/yr.

That sucks. Tn doesn't have State income though does it?
Here in NH we don't have state income or sales tax BUT our property tax makes up for it. 1100sqft .3 acres $6500/year tax. My property tax is higher than my mortgage! Rolling Eyes

Posted: Tue Dec 01, 2020 2:17 am

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Good luck on your adventure Cool

Posted: Tue Dec 01, 2020 3:30 am

nathanhouse wrote:

hogwild113 wrote:

Good thing you're not moving to the Nashville area.. Davidson county just raised property taxes by 34%. My property taxes on my 1160 sq ft house on .22 acre just went from $1865/yr to $2499/yr.

That sucks. Tn doesn't have State income though does it?
Here in NH we don't have state income or sales tax BUT our property tax makes up for it. 1100sqft .3 acres $6500/year tax. My property tax is higher than my mortgage! Rolling Eyes

6.5 acres $1100 bucks. No income tax, sales tax is higher though like 7.25. Corn, cows and cotton. And a dusting of snow today, WTAF???

Posted: Tue Dec 01, 2020 5:22 am

You are going the wrong way and should have relocated south west to New Zealand LOL
It has its local problems just like everywhere but overall is a very nice place to be.

Captain

Posted: Tue Dec 01, 2020 5:40 am

CB1100F wrote:

6.5 acres $1100 bucks. No income tax, sales tax is higher though like 7.25. Corn, cows and cotton. And a dusting of snow today, WTAF???

On Long Island NY... 1 acre $25K 8.63% sales tax plus 9% state income tax. Now tell me how tough it is... Sad

Posted: Tue Dec 01, 2020 5:55 pm

Captain wrote:

You are going the wrong way and should have relocated south west to New Zealand LOL
It has its local problems just like everywhere but overall is a very nice place to be.

Captain

It wouldn't take much to convince me to move down that way! Just have to get a job that'll pay the bills!

Posted: Wed Jan 27, 2021 12:31 pm

Well, it looks like we will be calling Loudon Tennessee our next home. We are currently in contract and we are working towards getting all of the inspection completed so we have good idea what the property needs to have done within the first six months living there. We will be doing some remodeling once we a clear plan and a contractor who can handle the details in a timely fashion.

Hopefully, I’ll have shop area created within this timeline so I can move my projects into and start searching for some of the fabrication services in the Knoxville area.

Stay tune for more details.