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Lambourne

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I live closer than that to a railroad and it's not really an issue, mostly because trains don't constantly use the horn like they do in the US. What's up with that anyway. Sounds like one of those rules that's been on the book forever because of one accident and we must therefore annoy everyone forever.
 
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Lambourne said:
I live closer than that to a railroad and it's not really an issue, mostly because trains don't constantly use the horn like they do in the US. What's up with that anyway. Sounds like one of those rules that's been on the book forever because of one accident and we must therefore annoy everyone forever.
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i lived 2 blocks away from an elevated nyc train, it wasn't like se7en


but on especially quiet nights i could hear the ding,dong
 
Cad

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Kithani said:
I mean if it’s overpriced for 20+ years… is it really overpriced?
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I don't think he means overpriced in a market perspective since if things are selling at that price they are by definition not overpriced.

What he's saying, I think, is that he thinks it's overpriced compared to other comparable areas that maybe aren't prestigious/swanky, although in fucking rural Tennessee it's hard for me to picture prestigious/swanky.
 
Gravel

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Yeah, it's overpriced compared to the rest of Nashville. It's always been the ritzy part.

It's not particularly rural either.
 
Drinsic

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Cad said:
...although in fucking rural Tennessee it's hard for me to picture prestigious/swanky.
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It's really not that rural, at least not anymore. Franklin is right outside of Nashville - Franklin and Brentwood (adjacent to the north) are where a lot of Nashville money lives. The prices are definitely absurd compared to a lot of other areas nearby.
 
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Mizake

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When I visited TN earlier this year for the first time, I really fell in love with Franklin, it has that small town appeal, friendly people, clean, low crime, etc. I went to some open houses, the realtor was a Californian who moved there 2 years earlier, and she says half of her buyers are from CA. Home prices are basically the same as in CA at this point, but i can definitely see the appeal of retiring there. I would say it's top 3 places I've visited so far that I would move after retirement, but I still have more places to reconnaissance.

I also visited Brentwood, and for the life of me I can't understand how homes there are so expensive. It's closer to Nashville than Franklin, but other than that it was very flat, no scenery, etc....and I saw a lot of homes for $6 million that I wouldn't even spend $2 million on given the location. I'm guessing maybe that's where the old money is.

I've also heard that East TN and West TN are like 2 different worlds, not sure how accurate that is, but I do plan on visiting East TN in the near future.
 
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Mizake said:
When I visited TN earlier this year for the first time, I really fell in love with Franklin, it has that small town appeal, friendly people, clean, low crime, etc. I went to some open houses, the realtor was a Californian who moved there 2 years earlier, and she says half of her buyers are from CA. Home prices are basically the same as in CA at this point, but i can definitely see the appeal of retiring there. I would say it's top 3 places I've visited so far that I would move after retirement, but I still have more places to reconnaissance.

I also visited Brentwood, and for the life of me I can't understand how homes there are so expensive. It's closer to Nashville than Franklin, but other than that it was very flat, no scenery, etc....and I saw a lot of homes for $6 million that I wouldn't even spend $2 million on given the location. I'm guessing maybe that's where the old money is.

I've also heard that East TN and West TN are like 2 different worlds, not sure how accurate that is, but I do plan on visiting East TN in the near future.
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I'd retire in Franklin County Virginia, maybe. Aint no way Im spending millions to live in fucking TN of all places. Especially surrounded by a bunch of Hippy Liberals from CA.
 
Khane

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Daidraco said:
I'd retire in Franklin County Virginia, maybe. Aint no way Im spending millions to live in fucking TN of all places. Especially surrounded by a bunch of Hippy Liberals from CA.
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Bud the hippy liberals can't afford to live in places like that. You'd be surrounded by self loathing, blow hard, actually secret conservative liberals.
 
TJT

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Lanx said:


i've driven by this area, probably a detour once or twice on this street going to a local asian restaurant (they closed so i don't drive here no more)

the price and the appraisals are insane


also while you do have a huge long yard
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go further back and you just have 3 huge empty lots owned by the city why?
b/c thats not a street, thats a railroad, you live right next to a fucking train
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I need some context here. Why does a Nashville suburb command these prices?
 
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TJT said:
I need some context here. Why does a Nashville suburb command these prices?
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well tbf that is a huge piece of land, it's 1acre, like i am at 1/4 of an acre. it's also walkable distance to and inside the "city". other than that franklin is just hcol, you know it's good when it's 75white and asians are 10 vs. 5black, and that is counting the "city" demographics, you drive 5min out of it, i have never seen another another asian.

as you get closer to nashville, brentwood is almost double the franklin prices, and of course nashville is just stupid prices (just drove out of there tonight, went to a video game string quartet of 4 violinists).
 
Mizake

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People need to stand up to this shit, like in poe2 I refuse to sell anything to foreigners. If they message me a second time I double the price, if they message me again complaining or even agree, I quadruple the price.
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The problem is that, for most people, money usurps any sense of standards they may have. Everything has a price. So while you hold out, your neighbors sell out, and before you know it you are surrounded by assholes you have nothing in common with, which means then you need to move.

Think of how many nice communities have been ruined by out migration from the likes of California and New York. I had a ton of friends that live in Austin, TX in the early 90s, they all made out like bandits with real estate, but that city has become a liberal cesspool thanks to Californians. I was actually surprised how conservative Franklin seemed to be for the most part, minus the Gay Pride flag in the Frothy Monkey coffee shop.
 
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Mizake said:
The problem is that, for most people, money usurps any sense of standards they may have. Everything has a price. So while you hold out, your neighbors sell out, and before you know it you are surrounded by assholes you have nothing in common with, which means then you need to move.

Think of how many nice communities have been ruined by out migration from the likes of California and New York. I had a ton of friends that live in Austin, TX in the early 90s, they all made out like bandits with real estate, but that city has become a liberal cesspool thanks to Californians. I was actually surprised how conservative Franklin seemed to be for the most part, minus the Gay Pride flag in the Frothy Monkey coffee shop.
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Yep. Might as well bail while the bailing is good, anyway.

Communities extends to states. Idaho now just about ruined from all the people from the coast flooding in. My house was on the edge of town, and slowly farms and owners of large plots of land sold out. Now it is all McSubdivisions as far as the eye can see.

My neighbor caught me righting my For Sale sign, and she asked me why so many houses in the neighborhood were for sale. I told her what houses were worth and her eyes got huge with surprise. She went home and two weeks later the house had new owners. Her house went up by half a million, and that's the type of money most people never see all at once in their entire lives. I can't blame people for bailing out.

The woman who bought my house hates the area now. Ever more McSubdivisions on roads that are way over capacity. LA 2.0.

The problem as I mentioned earlier is that people are still flooding in from the coasts. I live on the other side of the US now, and home prices are going up by a huge amount because the coasters are bringing with them cash and bidding prices up to stupid levels. Extend this to everywhere, and nearly all the nice places to live are getting filled up.
 
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Lanx said:
well tbf that is a huge piece of land, it's 1acre, like i am at 1/4 of an acre. it's also walkable distance to and inside the "city". other than that franklin is just hcol, you know it's good when it's 75white and asians are 10 vs. 5black, and that is counting the "city" demographics, you drive 5min out of it, i have never seen another another asian.

as you get closer to nashville, brentwood is almost double the franklin prices, and of course nashville is just stupid prices (just drove out of there tonight, went to a video game string quartet of 4 violinists).
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Wife has some conference in Nashville i am going with but not attending so i need to meet up w Lanx Lanx
 
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people who move from anywhere to the middle of Idaho, what do they do for work? Are fully remote live wherever you want tech jobs that prominent still?
 
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Khane

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I feel like only someone from Idaho could ever correlate like 5 new out of staters moving to Idaho as "L.A. 2.0".

I'm sure it feels like that to them but... uh... really?
 
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Coeur D’Alene is beautiful in the pan handle, everywhere else is just fucking potato’s everywhere.
 
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