British girl in TN

I am thinking of moving to tennessee, it's always been a dream of mine.

What would it be like for a UK girl living there, would people be accepting?

 

Depends on where you go, but most likely you would be just fine. I recommend Sewanee, TN, or the East TN area. The higher the elevation, the better, if you ask me!

 

The weather is remarkably similar, but a little warmer. Are you thinking of living in a rural or urban area?

 

tennessee is beautiful. The people might cause a culture shock...some of the people I see throughout the rural south still surprise me and I've lived here my whole life. Small town southern people have a certain mentality you won't find anywhere else. I have a love/hate relationship with that mentality. If you're planning on living in a larger city, Knoxville is full of rabid tennessee volunteer fans..hardly a hippie haven. Ive never been to nashville but jack white lives there so you cant go wrong haha. I don't see any reason why people wouldn't be accepting. they will probably be very charmed by your accent. Where in TN do you want to live? are you looking for a very rural life or do you think you'll move to a city?

 

I haven't actually give much thought to it recently, but since I was about 14 I have wanted to move there. I might eventually go over for a few months, just to see how I'd get along. I would most probably go to a city with work and all. There aren't many places in America that I would want to live, but there is something about Tennessee that is appealing.

 

Now THATS a reason

If I could jam along with him sometimes I would move there immediately

 

I had to google him, and have to say - he's not making me want to move there!

 

I live in Tn. Its really nice. I suggest Gallatin. Or Portland. Stay away from Bordeaux and Inglewood, though I love those places, its not the best place to start out at. But yeaaaahhh. Are you wanting to live in the city first or the country. Like what part??

 

I have fantasies about going to nashville and running into jack white. in some fantasies he just invites me back to his house to jam, in some he falls madly in love with me and I go and live with him and his hot supermodel wife...haha my fantasy life is silly.

really?!?!? what type of music do you like? I think jack white is the best musician of my generation. Watch It Might Get Loud, with jack white, jimmy page, and the edge (a bit incongruous, that last one). I think that documentary will make anyone respect jack white as a musician.

 

You'll get along better in TN if you're a Christian and belong to a church and you don't mind answering questions from people you just met like, "Which church do you belong to?" I mention that because in other parts of the country, you would never be asked that question.

 

I'm telling you, in Sewanee, TN, no one will ever ask you that question. You get all the beauty of Tennessee without all the religious intolerance and associated bullshit. I swear I'm not making this up...

 

Where is Sewanee? Because it sure is like that in the Knoxville region where my parents live.

 

Yep... I agree... next to me of course

 

Sewanee is in southern Middle Tennessee, next to Monteagle, which is a small town off I-24. It is home to the University of the South. I went to boarding school in that town (at Saint Andrew's-Sewanee School). The people who live in Sewanee are generally progressive-minded individuals. In fact, there is a land trust just outside of Sewanee whose members build their own houses, grow their own food, and work to live "off the grid." In fact, I know a guy who harnesses his own electricity, grows his own food, built his own house, has his own running water and plumbing, and in fact lives entirely independent of any utility company whatsoever. He lives on the land trust.

I visit Sewanee any time I need a breath of fresh air. I grew up in a terrible little southern town called Tullahoma, TN, and Sewanee is just 45 minutes away, though I had no idea it existed until I was offered a scholarship to go to boarding school there when I was seventeen. It really is a world all its own.

The town that borders it is called Monteagle, and that town is your typical, oppressive, religious, poor southern town. However, many people do not realize that the modern civil rights movement began in Monteagle. Before there was Martin Luther King Jr, Malcom X, or Rosa Parks, there was the Highland Folk School, operated by Myles Horton, in Monteagle, TN. Without Myles Horton, there never would have been a Martin Luther King, Jr. He organized a biracial labor union in South Carolina in 1933 -- no small feat. Just another beautiful piece of American history lost under the heap of trash that ends up in text books.

 

Yea, the whiskey

 

Interesting stuff. I had no idea.

 

God Bless Jack Daniel's

 

That must be it

It calls out to me..

 

Tennessee is a beautiful state. I'd advise you to try it.

 

Seriously, tourist and immigrants from the UK are uncommon but accepted here. If you have any trouble getting along with fundamentalist Christians, you might want to keep that to yourself. If you have a green card, try temp services for work. Vacationers should be able to find rooms around Chattanooga for US $40 if they are careful. Maybe that helps. Come visit!