Question for Tennessee Residents!

I lived in Nashville for about 4 years. Clarksville is about 45 min to 1 hour north of Nashville. It is rolling hill country, very green and humid. Summers are hot and humid, winters are mild with occassional snow and ice storms. Clarksville is near Fort Campbell, there are a lot of military personnel who live there.

As for Middle TN - I love it, we've considered moving back. Living near Nashville is great. The city has all kinds of things to do, the obvious - music, lakes, several Universities and Colleges, hiking and camping. Middle TN is also "close " to so may other parts of the country, if you like to travel it's easy to make weekend trips to the midwest and south (ST Louis and Cincinnati are about 5 hours, Louisville 2-3, Birmingham 3, Smokey MNTS 4).

Housing is less expensive than in Colorado, I don't know about Utah. Clarksville is less expensive than Metro Nashville. I would visit the Chamber of Commerce website and Realtor.com for more info.

Good Luck, if you end up there you should find it's a great place to raise a family.

I lived in Clarksville for 10 years and in the area for 30. I couldn't wait to get out of there. However, now my husband (from SoCal stationed while enlisted at Ft Campbell which shares a border with C'ville) and I are trying very hard to get back there. When we go back we are going to try to land on the south side of the county (Montgomery) so that we can be near Nashville as well as Ft Campbell and counties just over the border in KY where my family is located. I suggest trying to get closer to Nashville-one of the best things about C'Ville is proximity to the amenities of city life that Nashville offers without having to live in the city itself. I notice one of the other posts mentioned the less expensive housing-that is true because of the turnover due to lots of soldiers. Along that same line-C'Ville never saw the dip in the housing market that the rest of the US has seen (also because of the influx of military personnel) so you won't have to worry losing the value of your property like you would pretty much anywhere else. Good Luck!

We are also moving to Clarksville and are looking at homes right now - I am trying to find information about Richview and Rossview Middle Schools and the Clarksville High School vs. the Rossview High School.

Please email me at ____@____.com if you can give me any info - I know that we arfe going to live in one of these school diostricts but I don't know which one is better.

oh i miss tennessee. it's a beautiful place. Judi R is spot on. i will also add that you could take day trips to state parks with waterfalls. that was one of my favorite things to do there. i do remember being amazed in the summer at how hot and humid it was already when i went jogging at 6am. but it was tolerable for me since i grew up in the midwest. i've been in provo for 5 years now and i still miss the humidity. even when it rains it feels like it is not enough. so you may be the opposite if you are from utah. or maybe you'll come to enjoy the humidity that you've been missing. ;)

I have never lived in Clarksville, but I live in Nashville and used to visit friends there. It is really close to Nashville, so there is always something to do. Opry Mills was really close, but all of that has been flooded and they aren't sure what they are going to do about it.

As far as climate and weather, if you know anything about the South, it pretty much describes Clarksville. It is nice, except the summer humidity is awful! Some people don't mind it as much, but I hate it. That is my only complaint about it. It will take a while to get used to once you move, but you will. Fall is really nice here. The winter gets cold and may snow on occasion, but we usually don't have much. Spring is great to enjoy before the humidity kicks in, but you have to watch out for the bugs. I'm not sure what the big population is in Utah, but we have a high one here.

Overall, it is like anywhere else. There are really good parts to live in and some not so good parts. My friends lived in a really good part, but I am so sorry to say that I can't remember what their area was called. There is also a great public college if you or your children (I don't know how old your children are) wish to take classes.

Sorry I couldn't help too much, but I hope this helps a little. I really enjoy middle Tennessee overall.

Wow that is a big move!

This probably won't be helpful since I don' live there and comparing moving a single guy to a family is like apples and oranges. But I wanted to tell you that my brother just picked up and moved himself from the Kansas City area to Nashville 15 years ago and never looked back. He loves it.

Like the other poster said, it is more of a 'southern' climate. We laugh because he came home for Christmas and we had more snow here than we had for years and he was ready to go back to the 'south'. I know we had relatives who lived in Salt Lake and they didn't even have an air conditioner so that may be a bit of a change.

But like I started out saying, it may not be helpful because I can't tell you the good or bad areas. I do know that he's commented that he's glad he doesn't have kids or he'd have to move because the schools where he is, isn't very good.

Good Luck to you!