The wife and I are in Fairview, TN for the week. For the members who live in the area, what are some of the nicer towns to look into real estate. We are looking in the Burns, White Bluff area now but I am curious as to other areas. We want a big lot for separation and want to be completely away from crime areas and major cities.

Actually, most of the area around Fairview is pretty decent. What kind of budget do you have? Brentwood and Franklin are both great, but land will be pricey there. Murfreesboro and Smyrna will both have what you are looking for as well, but aren't quite as rich as the Brentwood/ Franklin area. Spring Hill is in that area, and is significantly smaller and more rural while still being decent. Triune and Arrington are both accessible if you are looking for a very rural experience.

Franklin would probably be my first choice if you can afford it. It has a very classy downtown and the people there are great.

Really liked living in Franklin but we couldn't afford to buy the house we sold last year. Maury County is much cheaper and has less resources. Still close enough to metro Nashville to get in trouble if you want.

Fairview is pretty nice. Just down the road Dickson and Centerville are pretty bad. Stay away from Centerville and Hickman County in general. It is the third circle of meth and Dollar General hell. Columbia in Maury county is a nice small town with just about everything you need with easy access to I-65 towards Franklin and Nashville. Hohenwald in Lewis county is quite nice for a SMALL town, but shopping is pretty limited beyond a Walmart and it's a pretty good drive on two-lane roads to anything resembling a city.

This isn't from living there, but from a years worth of visiting my girlfriend in Centerville just about every weekend. Only one more year until her oldest graduates high school and she relocates down here to NW Alabama.

Christiana, Bell Buckle, Manchester, - basically make a circle 50 miles out from Nashville and take your pick.

Have to throw a plug for Cookeville. Real estate is still reasonable, low 100s to mid 300s. Shopping is growing 2 Walmart’s, Kroger, Publix. Academy sports. 1 indoor gun range, 1 outdoor. Sits along 1-40 60 or so to Nashville 80ish to Knoxville. Also interstate 111 go from here to ky north to Chattanooga in the south. Cookeville proper is surrounded by and in Putnam county. We have Tennessee technology university, the cookeville hospital is now part of Vanderbilt. Ok I’m done.

My in-laws live on the outskirts of Crossville. They are NJ transplants and have lived there for last 5 years. They love it. They are on the plateau and appreciate the elevation. We go once a year and enjoy spending time exploring the area. About 2 hours to Nashville, 75 minutes to Knoxville and Chattenooga. Not sure about crime rate but seems like a quiet area. It is an area I recommend you look into.

There’s a town called Fairfield Glade near Crossville. Mostly retired auto guys from the big 3. They have all the best golf in tn. And the best of the best of everything else. It’s a homeowner association.

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Christiana, Bell Buckle, Manchester

I was going to suggest this area as well. You can still get land at a decent price and crime isnt bad at all. After living most of my life in the Franklin and Spring Hill areas we bought 3 acres in Bell Buckle 2 years ago and my wife and I couldn't be happier! We're a 10 minute drive from Murfreesboro for anything we could possibly need but it doesn't feel like you're near a big city. We liked the Chapel Hill area for its small town appeal but then you were 30-45 minutes from either Murfreesboro or Franklin.

A bit farther south/southeast of Franklin is nice too. Arrington/College Grove and down towards Shelbyville.

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Christiana, Bell Buckle, Manchester

We bought 3 acres in Bell Buckle 2 years ago and my wife and I couldn't be happier!

We left Shelbyville after 63 years and moved 10 miles to Bell Buckle. We bought a house sitting on 3.5 acres that my Dad and I built for a couple in 1975 from their Estate. Love it! I'm within site of the city limits... edge of town.

FYI, Bell Buckle, population just under 500, voted almost 2 to 1 over Hillary for Trump in 2016.

h1b14, wonder how close we are...

Murfreesboro and Tullahoma come to mind.

Winchester

Franklin is nice, sure. But crazy crowded, expensive and getting close to being a suburb of Nashville.

Lots of nice towns around. But not too close to Nashville or you’ll be in the big city in ten years

To piggyback on this question, what's like the Beverly Hills of TN? Like, if you had a million dollars to spend on a house, where would you live?

This won’t be much help, but I’d recommend that you avoid the Nashville/Davidson Co area and Memphis/Shelby Co area.

Those are the moron strongholds in TN. I’ve lived in Knoxville for quite a while. My GF lives outside Nashville a ways.

TN is a Red state, but Nashville and Memphis are very BLUE.

The moron Congresscritter that left the ceramic chicken for US Attorney General Bill Barr and ate the cold bucket of KFC last Thursday was the congressman from Memphis.

The mayor of Nashville resigned last year because she’d been traveling and sleeping with the head of her security detail on the taxpayer dime.

Poor us in Knoxville, we have the Haslam bothers. The biggest screwup of those two in the last few years is that Jimmy bought the Cleveland Browns. Poor bastard, he’s still worth about $2.5B even as poorly as they’ve done the last few years, but they won 7 games last year!

His brother Bill was governor for 8 years after being mayor of Knoxville for a while and is only worth about $4B. Poor bastard.

I worked in Brentwood for a minute and there are great restaurants, it’s not far from downtown Nashville, and there’s a lot of culture within 30 minutes. Brentwood and Franklin is a REALLY good area.

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To piggyback on this question, what's like the Beverly Hills of TN? Like, if you had a million dollars to spend on a house, where would you live?

I’m biased, but something on the TN river in Knoxville.

I have a friend that bought a house on the river in Knoxville a decade or so ago for about $500k and it’s freaking amazing.

There are several areas of Nashville where you can spend a pretty penny and live in the same neighborhood as country music stars, but.....

Personally, I’d seriously consider Mt. Juliet. It’s a little east of downtown, but is the home of Charlie Daniels and a few other folks who do some great charity work for the local community.

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To piggyback on this question, what's like the Beverly Hills of TN? Like, if you had a million dollars to spend on a house, where would you live?

Belle Meade, suburb of Nashville.

*this isn't necessarily where I'd live, but rather what the Beverly Hills of TN is*

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To piggyback on this question, what's like the Beverly Hills of TN? Like, if you had a million dollars to spend on a house, where would you live?

Brentwood

Brentwood, Franklin and Spring Hill are way too crowded for me. Traffic is murder. Too many folks shoehorned into too small a place. I loved living in Spring Hill years ago but I wouldnt live there now. LOVE middle TN though.

I would recommend Knoxville and surrounding areas, depending on your lifestyle. For example, you could live south of town to be close to the mountains. Or, west of town to be close to lakes. Or northeast of town to be close to moonshine.

What about Gallatin? Its been many many moons ago, feels like a lifetime - but I used to think if I ever left the Atlanta area I would go to Gallatin, TN - of course this dates me because last time I was there was 2006 - matter of fact I had left after one of my extended stays the week before they get hit by tornados in April 2006 - at any rate I loved the area back then. Lots can change in that many years but the place always stuck with me, I haven't been back since fall 2006 after the project ended.