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Calm down. It’s a put up banner sign that isn’t there anymore. There was never any mask mandate in Johnson City or anywhere in Tennessee. But it is a college town so you’re going to get crazies among some of the collegiate population. And that will happen anywhere. So don’t be turned off so easily. Johnson City is a very nice place to live and work in. You’ll be fine here.
6:05 “MASK UP!” Wow, did not expect that in a place like East TN. The photo’s probably from 2020, but jeez, I didn’t think they were such tools out there.
There is also, Kingsport, Bristol, Greenville and Morristown. All in the north eastern area of the state. Plus, I love Cookeville but it is in middle Tennessee.
@@TimLucasdesign I’m from Cleveland, bedroom community of Chattanooga, so as far as we are concerned down here, Knoxville IS ALSO NE Tennessee. If you really want to get technical than Johnson City isn’t NE either - Mountain City is NE.
@@southernyankee2300 I mean, Chattanooga is on the Georgia border and is also further west! If you look at a map, Knox is about the same distance to KY, GA and NC putting it squarely in the center of the east of the state.
@@TimLucasdesign it’s all relative! From Chatt we take I-75 NE to Knoxville and if you look on the map you will notice that I-75 indeed runs NE FROM Chattanooga, you can easily verify this yourself. It also shows that Knoxville IS NE of Chattanooga and Knoxville is ABOVE the halfway mark and it is not dead center. If ya wanna call ETSU the University belt of NE TN, I disagree with you, but everyone is entitled to there opinion. I also know exactly where the GA line is, my house is approximately 6 miles from the TN/GA line and have driven Dalton Pike almost every day for the past 23 years, if you think that Chattanooga is further east that Knoxville then I suggest you pull up the state map.😏
Crossville is in East Tennessee because it's east of the Cumberland Plateau and in Cumberland County, which is one of the exceptions that East/Middle Tennessee is divided by the Eastern and Central time zones
Hi Ben, We are happy to have found your youtube page. We love Cookeville and are hoping to move there before long. Last October we went to Cooking on the Square.
They reassessed our property values and raised taxes this year. Thousands of hoa houses built and replaced acres of beautiful farmland and countryside.😢
So the totally relevant question I have is: Is the 40 freeway any better structurally in TN than it is through AZ and NM? I drove some miles along the 40 from CA into TX and when I returned to L. A., I needed repairs to my car underneath. It was/is a literal washboard for more than a 500 mile stretch through there. Worst highway I have ever traveled.
Yea no jobs here either, cause commissioners got their hands in the housing market, driving way to many people in here, and there aren't enough jobs to support the population.
@@C.C-k1y TN is just being ruined right now by all the influx of affluent city/burb folks, but by all the preppers/homesteaders buying up our rural properties and jacking those prices up - most of them may not work though. I do wonder where they get the money to buy up the unimproved land. 🤔
Grew up less than a mile from Tellico Village when it was first being built..It has a DARK past by the way the land was acquired from the people that lived on it..The people that owned the land had no choice but to take a very low ball offer or be thrown off the land and worse...
Tellico is absolutely beautiful place! I like Townsend and wears valley as well expensive but what it offers with a safe country setting yet being close to bigger cities I can live with that.
I grew up between Maryville and Knoxville my entire life, and Knoxville is grown too much. Maryville's population is growing too much too, and pretty soon, Knoxville and Maryville are going to begin meshing together, as Maryville is beginning to look a lot more like West Knoxville. 🙄
@rrtownsend6432 trying to decide if it's even worth the trip to go to Chattanooga or if I should head back to the NC direction from Knoxville. Knoxville seems like it sucks bad.
I lived outside of Chatt, in Cleveland, for 23 years and the Chatt neighborhoods closer to downtown have a high crime rate and I didn’t like to go there even during daytime, unfortunately the hospitals are there. East Brainerd is fine and the Art district is mostly fine as well. Coolidge park, has had some issues after close that have spilled onto the Walnut Street bridge on very rare occasions, but let’s fac3 it, no US city is safe. There are so many bedroom communities that are nice and safe, yet close to Chatt. Lots to do in Chatt and it’s very pretty and they have been paying for tech people to come, move and work there. It is much prettier than Knoxville, but I just sold my home outside of Chatt and I am looking around Knoxville, which is a much more expensive area, unfortunately.
Yeah and it’s over commercialized and it sucks. Very unwelcoming place to stay. I’m talking to you Red Roof Inn. You made me drive 60 miles further east after being extremely tired. All I wanted was a room and you couldn’t give that to me because I had a debit card. How ridiculous! Thank you, Crossville. 😊
I live in Chattanooga, it's a safe tourist town. Crime is in every city, unfortunately people are victims to it anywhere you go.. It's beautiful here, and we have 2 aquariums, saltwater and fresh. Beautiful lakes, Great food, and parks. Would live in Chattanooga before any other City in Tennessee. Yes, I lived in Knoxville for 10 yrs, and the only thing I liked, was it was close to Gatlinburg. However Knxoville would be my 2nd choice, then Nashville and Never Memphis! That's where the crime truly is.
As an East Tennessean, we dislike it so much now, that lots of us are purposely making new people feel unwelcome when encountering transplants. I'm running into people in person and when I ask them where they're from they're very cautious about how I respond to hearing where there from, a im not being rude in any way, so I know theyre encountering hostility from other East Tennesseans. When East Tennesseans start openly giving hints of hostility, that means we're way beyond done with the bullcrap. Im in Maryville, and Ive been hearing New Jersey accents more and more lately, and Floridians have been moving in over the past few years as well (Floridians I can generally deal with). I'm just ready for our population growth to take a break for few years.
Yes please stay where you are, feel free to visit me, but please go home.. If you have issues with God, guns and family you absolutely don't belong here, ve are mostly conservative Republicans, . My family founded Gatlinburg, then named White Oak Flats, at the end of the revolutionary war. It has been ruined, everyone moved and rarely if ever goes back..
I'm sorry, but as Tennesseans, especially Tennesseans in smaller towns, we're just not very welcoming anymore. We are watching our towns get overrun by new people that our infrastructure cannot handle, land prices are going up so badly that locals are being completely priced out. But worst of all, our Southern, and in East TN particularly, where it is extremely important to us, our Southern Appalachian culture is disappearing. It's causing issues, because I've noticed that if I ask where someone is from after striking up a conversation with them, they noticeably tense up and are cautious of my reaction when they tell me where they are from; this lets me know someone has either said something to them, or they feel the hostility. We used to not be this way in Tennessee, it seems to really have happened within the past 10 yrs. It if you want to find a town that isn't woke, you need to look for towns in the suburbs or outlying areas of towns like Knoxville and Maryville (Maryville is a suburb of Knoxville, and is a part of the metro area, but its grown too fast and it's expensive now. It also is home to woke historical liberal arts private college, Maryville College) and pretty much any town this man mentioned. Good luck, and Godspeed.
@@mikegee729 Thanks! Local history should be preserved or at least documented. We take too much it for granted and then it becomes lost forever. My wife and I plan to visit a bunch of Revolutionary War sites here on Long Island before we move south. Thanks for the video!
I'd love to relocate to Maryville! Waiting to see what's going on in the country first. If illegals are gonna flood into eastern TN too, no thank you. Trying to get away from that crap in Texas.
Bringing your wallet to Jonesborough is a must because they have radar and cameras on every traffic light and their local police are always pulling people over left and right for any violation they can to get your money. They are like Road Pirates.
From WC, I already saw a comment on Jonesborough’s traffic enforcement, so I don’t have to comment on that! Jonesborough is growing, local news said town grew from 6 to 10,000 people in 2 years I believe it! My taxes went from $775. Last year to about $940. This year! I’m just hoping all the new people coming in don’t want to bring their blue state ideas with them! Remember that is why you left that expensive, big brother always looking over your shoulder state!
Yeah, I was wondering if it was too close for him to mention. It doesn't take long to feel rural heading east out of Knoxville since it doesn't sprawl like it does to the west.
You need a video that is along the lines of 6 reasons to stay where you are. No matter how polite people in Tennessee may be to you the reality is that no one really likes or appreciates you moving here.
What they aren’t telling you about these rural areas is the poor counties, there are lots of drugs meth heroine and pills, people will steal from you any chance they can get, very few services, poor counties may only have 2 deputies to manage the whole counties, no healthcare unless you drive 20 to 30 miles. School systems are just sad. This guy would know cause he hasn’t seen these areas. If you have a lot of money you might be ok.
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How do you feel about sharps chapel??? What could you tell me?
Cookeville is actually in Middle, Tennessee
Saw a giant mask up sign in Johnson city so that’s an easy pass.
What’s that mean?
@@BhunnidbNothing, but putting out an idea to make fearful people feel better. Not a law and won't be! Ever.
I saw that too and immediately was turned off. Is it liberal there?!
Calm down. It’s a put up banner sign that isn’t there anymore. There was never any mask mandate in Johnson City or anywhere in Tennessee. But it is a college town so you’re going to get crazies among some of the collegiate population. And that will happen anywhere. So don’t be turned off so easily. Johnson City is a very nice place to live and work in. You’ll be fine here.
@@katiekat5197 it's liberal there, I researched it for myself. Big turn off for me too.
I lived in Maryville Tennessee for 20 years. It used to be a nice place. Glad i got out.
6:05 “MASK UP!”
Wow, did not expect that in a place like East TN. The photo’s probably from 2020, but jeez, I didn’t think they were such tools out there.
Don't judge the people from a stupid billboard ffs
Lots of leftist weirdos in Johnson City.
@@StratorusCatalog trust me.... masks never caught on out here to begin with.
Fight. Fight. Fight.
My mother’s relatives came from Newport and
Del Rio, as well as Morristown.
There is also, Kingsport, Bristol, Greenville and Morristown. All in the north eastern area of the state. Plus, I love Cookeville but it is in middle Tennessee.
Johnson City.
yeah, but he said "Great places to live" 😜
@TimLucasdesign aren't you funny. Really, it is better not to advertise. This state is getting crowded.
Home prices in Morristown have doubled in the last 10 years.
@crashdsnowman1 yeah, but really since 2020. I bought my home in 2017 for $130, Zillow values it at $250 now.
Johnson City TN is the university belt area of the NE TN.
So is Knoxville. UT is there and UTs law school and vet school is there as well.
@@southernyankee2300 Yeah, she clearly states NORTH EAST TN. Knoxville is just East TN.
@@TimLucasdesign I’m from Cleveland, bedroom community of Chattanooga, so as far as we are concerned down here, Knoxville IS ALSO NE Tennessee. If you really want to get technical than Johnson City isn’t NE either - Mountain City is NE.
@@southernyankee2300 I mean, Chattanooga is on the Georgia border and is also further west! If you look at a map, Knox is about the same distance to KY, GA and NC putting it squarely in the center of the east of the state.
@@TimLucasdesign it’s all relative! From Chatt we take I-75 NE to Knoxville and if you look on the map you will notice that I-75 indeed runs NE FROM Chattanooga, you can easily verify this yourself. It also shows that Knoxville IS NE of Chattanooga and Knoxville is ABOVE the halfway mark and it is not dead center. If ya wanna call ETSU the University belt of NE TN, I disagree with you, but everyone is entitled to there opinion. I also know exactly where the GA line is, my house is approximately 6 miles from the TN/GA line and have driven Dalton Pike almost every day for the past 23 years, if you think that Chattanooga is further east that Knoxville then I suggest you pull up the state map.😏
Can't believe you said "Appa-lay-chan" mountains. It's"Appa-latch-un". Johnson City's also getting overcrowded with bad traffic.
It's pronounced both ways. Relax.
@@Hunter_Nebid Not for people who actually live here.
This dude not from here.
I'm from Oak Ridge. Every map I've looked at after watching your video confirms that Crossville is in Middle Tenessee, not East Tennessee.
He's not from here, I could tell that with the first word then again when he said Chattanooga was charming.
He’s someone who isnt from here doesn’t really know the state. He actually has the nerve to invite more people to come.
Crossville is in East Tennessee because it's east of the Cumberland Plateau and in Cumberland County, which is one of the exceptions that East/Middle Tennessee is divided by the Eastern and Central time zones
@@Wadeifer lol, that’s funny you really think you know Tennessee better than a local? Knoxville and East is East Tennessee.
Hi Ben, We are happy to have found your youtube page. We love Cookeville and are hoping to move there before long. Last October we went to Cooking on the Square.
You forgot Harriman. It's perfectly situated close to all the cities west of Knoxville without any of the traffic and large city items.
They reassessed our property values and raised taxes this year. Thousands of hoa houses built and replaced acres of beautiful farmland and countryside.😢
Sad😱
So the totally relevant question I have is: Is the 40 freeway any better structurally in TN than it is through AZ and NM?
I drove some miles along the 40 from CA into TX and when I returned to L. A., I needed repairs to my car underneath. It was/is a literal washboard for more than a 500 mile stretch through there. Worst highway I have ever traveled.
I lived in Bradley county outside of Chatt (Hamilton) - great place to live!
Yea no jobs here either, cause commissioners got their hands in the housing market, driving way to many people in here, and there aren't enough jobs to support the population.
@@C.C-k1y TN is just being ruined right now by all the influx of affluent city/burb folks, but by all the preppers/homesteaders buying up our rural properties and jacking those prices up - most of them may not work though. I do wonder where they get the money to buy up the unimproved land. 🤔
@@southernyankee2300 they are retired
Or brought in by local manufacturers
@@C.C-k1y I did hear that many escaping Florida right now are coming to TN. I miss the “good old days”.🙃
Grew up less than a mile from Tellico Village when it was first being built..It has a DARK past by the way the land was acquired from the people that lived on it..The people that owned the land had no choice but to take a very low ball offer or be thrown off the land and worse...
Thanks so much for covering Tellico Village! We're looking to move that direction upon retirement.
Tellico is absolutely beautiful place! I like Townsend and wears valley as well expensive but what it offers with a safe country setting yet being close to bigger cities I can live with that.
Moved to Tellico Village two years ago. Love it here.
Thank you......Knoxville is too big city for me!
...and getting BIGGER.
I grew up between Maryville and Knoxville my entire life, and Knoxville is grown too much. Maryville's population is growing too much too, and pretty soon, Knoxville and Maryville are going to begin meshing together, as Maryville is beginning to look a lot more like West Knoxville. 🙄
I heard chattanooga crime is high and it’s not safe
Lots of gangs in Chatt town. It's a pretty city though.
@@rrtownsend6432 TN in general has one of the highest crime rates. Easy enough to look it up.
@rrtownsend6432 trying to decide if it's even worth the trip to go to Chattanooga or if I should head back to the NC direction from Knoxville. Knoxville seems like it sucks bad.
I lived outside of Chatt, in Cleveland, for 23 years and the Chatt neighborhoods closer to downtown have a high crime rate and I didn’t like to go there even during daytime, unfortunately the hospitals are there. East Brainerd is fine and the Art district is mostly fine as well. Coolidge park, has had some issues after close that have spilled onto the Walnut Street bridge on very rare occasions, but let’s fac3 it, no US city is safe. There are so many bedroom communities that are nice and safe, yet close to Chatt. Lots to do in Chatt and it’s very pretty and they have been paying for tech people to come, move and work there. It is much prettier than Knoxville, but I just sold my home outside of Chatt and I am looking around Knoxville, which is a much more expensive area, unfortunately.
you heard right
WHY CROSSVILLE TENNESSEE ROCKWOOD TENNESSEE NOT ON THE LIST
Cookeville is in Middle Tennessee---not East Tennessee.
Yeah and it’s over commercialized and it sucks. Very unwelcoming place to stay. I’m talking to you Red Roof Inn. You made me drive 60 miles further east after being extremely tired. All I wanted was a room and you couldn’t give that to me because I had a debit card. How ridiculous!
Thank you, Crossville. 😊
I live in Chattanooga, it's a safe tourist town. Crime is in every city, unfortunately people are victims to it anywhere you go.. It's beautiful here, and we have 2 aquariums, saltwater and fresh. Beautiful lakes, Great food, and parks. Would live in Chattanooga before any other City in Tennessee. Yes, I lived in Knoxville for 10 yrs, and the only thing I liked, was it was close to Gatlinburg. However Knxoville would be my 2nd choice, then Nashville and Never Memphis! That's where the crime truly is.
Thank you!
Morristown didn't make your list. I lived there for years. Believe me, I'm not surprised.
Wanna guess how many people in East Tennessee want more outsiders moving in ESPECIALLY from Blue states?? ZERO. NONE. ZILCH.
As an East Tennessean, we dislike it so much now, that lots of us are purposely making new people feel unwelcome when encountering transplants. I'm running into people in person and when I ask them where they're from they're very cautious about how I respond to hearing where there from, a im not being rude in any way, so I know theyre encountering hostility from other East Tennesseans. When East Tennesseans start openly giving hints of hostility, that means we're way beyond done with the bullcrap. Im in Maryville, and Ive been hearing New Jersey accents more and more lately, and Floridians have been moving in over the past few years as well (Floridians I can generally deal with). I'm just ready for our population growth to take a break for few years.
Yes please stay where you are, feel free to visit me, but please go home.. If you have issues with God, guns and family you absolutely don't belong here, ve are mostly conservative Republicans, . My family founded Gatlinburg, then named White Oak Flats, at the end of the revolutionary war. It has been ruined, everyone moved and rarely if ever goes back..
Little town an hour away from downtown Knoxville.
I'm from Morristown
I moved to Kingsport a year ago. Great Place
Mareville
Or Murrville
This guy says "Appalachian" (5:58) wrong. He can't be native. Don't know if you can trust someone that says it wrong and lives in the area.
Have to see if the University is woke. To avoid or not to avoid. 🤔 Moving to TN to get away from woke ideologies
East Tennessee has been "woke" since the 1800s. Move to Memphis.
You won’t like it here
I'm sorry, but as Tennesseans, especially Tennesseans in smaller towns, we're just not very welcoming anymore. We are watching our towns get overrun by new people that our infrastructure cannot handle, land prices are going up so badly that locals are being completely priced out. But worst of all, our Southern, and in East TN particularly, where it is extremely important to us, our Southern Appalachian culture is disappearing. It's causing issues, because I've noticed that if I ask where someone is from after striking up a conversation with them, they noticeably tense up and are cautious of my reaction when they tell me where they are from; this lets me know someone has either said something to them, or they feel the hostility. We used to not be this way in Tennessee, it seems to really have happened within the past 10 yrs. It if you want to find a town that isn't woke, you need to look for towns in the suburbs or outlying areas of towns like Knoxville and Maryville (Maryville is a suburb of Knoxville, and is a part of the metro area, but its grown too fast and it's expensive now. It also is home to woke historical liberal arts private college, Maryville College) and pretty much any town this man mentioned. Good luck, and Godspeed.
Move to Alabama or Mississippi.😂
What's the name of the fort you showed during the Tellico Village segment?
It has been decades since I was there, but it looks like the Tellico Blockhouse to me. I could be wrong.
@@mikegee729 Thanks! Local history should be preserved or at least documented. We take too much it for granted and then it becomes lost forever. My wife and I plan to visit a bunch of Revolutionary War sites here on Long Island before we move south. Thanks for the video!
It's Fort Loudoun State Historic Park.
I'd love to relocate to Maryville! Waiting to see what's going on in the country first. If illegals are gonna flood into eastern TN too, no thank you. Trying to get away from that crap in Texas.
Blacks are worse
We're all full here try Texas
Cookeville has Tennessee Technical University. The best!!
East Tennessee just got destroyed by hurricane 3days ago.😮
How about Jefferson City? How about Morristown .. excellent places. But Chattanooga no no no no no stay away stay away.
Morristown is overcrowded now, they say every apt complex has a long waiting list and home prices have doubled in the last several years.
Just don’t move here.
Great Video
How about Dandridge?
Bringing your wallet to Jonesborough is a must because they have radar and cameras on every traffic light and their local police are always pulling people over left and right for any violation they can to get your money. They are like Road Pirates.
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Marvulle..you are saying it wrong..lol
A tiny place with over 100 REGISTERED SEX OFFENDERS
Lol😂
Methville
If you grew up elsewhere it’s MaryVILLE. If you grew up in Tennessee it’s Maryvulle. That’s what tells you are not from here!
Chattanooga has horrible traffic!
From WC, I already saw a comment on Jonesborough’s traffic enforcement, so I don’t have to comment on that! Jonesborough is growing, local news said town grew from 6 to 10,000 people in 2 years I believe it! My taxes went from $775. Last year to about $940. This year! I’m just hoping all the new people coming in don’t want to bring their blue state ideas with them! Remember that is why you left that expensive, big brother always looking over your shoulder state!
Jonesborough IS the oldest town followed by Dandridge..... after Martha Dandridge Washington.
I love Dandridge. I assume he didn't cover it because of its proximity to the knoxville Metro?
@@TimLucasdesign is not really that far from Knoxville....far enough to be quiet though😬😂
Yeah, I was wondering if it was too close for him to mention. It doesn't take long to feel rural heading east out of Knoxville since it doesn't sprawl like it does to the west.
You need a video that is along the lines of 6 reasons to stay where you are. No matter how polite people in Tennessee may be to you the reality is that no one really likes or appreciates you moving here.
QUIT TELLING PEOPLE ABOUT TENNESSEE WE ARE FULL UP
Heard the violence in these areas are awful
Scott County Tennessee
Johnson City doesn’t look like a city that cherishes freedom (mask up JC) thank you but NO!
They are demonstrating they care about the health and welfare of their citizens. So go where it isn't an issue.
I'm sure they don't mind one bit if you don't show up there!
We dont
Yes, keep saying that. Nothing to see here, move on. Thank you bye now
@@acox2884make me bye, you can't
Some them towns & city's isn't in the east end
Johnson City is great.
I'll stick with Decatur
pronounced the y in mair-vul 🤔
...and the "ay" in apple latch ya..🙃
That’s because the city is named for Mary Blount and it is properly pronounced Maryville, anything else is ignorant country slang.
I moved to Maryville 5 years ago and I refuse to pronounce it anyway else but Mary-ville. It sounds so quaint.
Cookeville is in Middle Tennessee not East.
Cookeville is not East TN.
Definitely heading to the Chattanooga area
Good for a visit. Wouldn't live there.
crime
What's wrong with Knoxville??
Its a nasty city
Bristol
Chattanooga is a city with crime and traffic
Story telling capital of the world? Sounds like hyperbole to me.
Yea, once upon a time, someone tried to sell me weed
This GUY IS "CLUELESS"!
TRAFFIC JAMS & WRECKS EVERY HOUR! HE HADN'T Researched! COME VISIT FIRST! YOU WILL SEE HE IS "CLUELESS"!
Sounding like a used car salesman 🤔
What they aren’t telling you about these rural areas is the poor counties, there are lots of drugs meth heroine and pills, people will steal from you any chance they can get, very few services, poor counties may only have 2 deputies to manage the whole counties, no healthcare unless you drive 20 to 30 miles. School systems are just sad. This guy would know cause he hasn’t seen these areas. If you have a lot of money you might be ok.
Bored.
QUIT TELLING PEOPLE ABOUT TENNESSEE WE ARE FULL UP