Coming to Nashville!!!

[dreaminbig]

The family is about to burst with excitement over getting to come visit our (hopefully) soon to be new home! I just booked the hotel room for our stay. We will be staying at the Country Inn and Suites in Lebanon for our stay. Looked like a decent area and the price was decent.

Here is what I'm hoping you guys and gals can do for the wife and I....

If you can just post or IM some places and areas to visit to get a good "feel" for the area that would be great. We want to figure out where things like the good neighborhoods are. We would also like to know where "not" to venture into.

Our research online and some quick trips through the area several years back have pushed us to look at the Mt. Juliet/Lebanon area. It has easy access to the interstate, is within and decent drive of Nashville for possible work and (from what I can tell) is a decent place to live. We will have the GPS and only need an address or street and we will find it.

If you really want to help us out, point us in the direction of job searches in the area. My wife will be looking in the business/financial world for a job. She has about 6 years of experience in finance so please let us know of any leads.

I will be looking into corrections/law enforcement but if I have to I will fall back on my construction and warehouse experience. I've got 2 years experience in corrections and will graduate with my criminal justice degree in August.

The key to us moving to the area will be having my wife or I working and making at least $40k year. Doesn't seem like too much of a stretch for her but may be for me.

Thanks for any tips you can give us. Don't worry either, we are not a bunch of Yankees coming down.....we are from the heart of the south, Va!

Oh yeah, almost forgot, we will be there May 26-29th!

[chunky t]

you couldnt have picked a worse weekend to visit lebanon..the biggest car show in thestate will be there that weekend as well as I...it gets pretty crazy..will take you 3hrs to go 2 miles..sorry to tell you this now..it is called slammin and jammin it is huge..

[Fiddlefarter]

If that car show is that weekend, yeah you should try to get a room in MJ or something. There's a Holiday Inn Express, Hampton Inn and Suites and another hotel i can't remember what it is right now. Bunch of damn idiots up there for that car show.

Here's your wife a job lead: http://agency.governmentjobs.c...fer=0

[dreaminbig]

The lady at the hotel mentioned to me about the car show but it's no big deal really. We will be leaving on Saturday anyway. Our hotel is literally right next to I-40 so we'll be fine. Thanks for the heads up though.

Josh, thanks for the link.

[Fiddlefarter]

[smalljawguy]

Mt. Juliet is nice. Franklin (15 miles out of Nashville) is really nice but could get pricey. Smyrna (10-15 miles southeast) of Nashville) is really growing fast and a good place too. Also my have a shot at a LEO job there. Good luck and look forward to having you as a neighbor.

[mikes05triton]

Just don't get a plkace to close to the river if you haven't already seen.

[dreaminbig]

I didn't realize downtown would get hit the way it has from the floods so we may shorten our stay a day since we had planned on a day down there. I'm not gonna venture into that area since it will be in cleanup mode.

EDIT: After my wife saw the pictures of Nashville she is questioning not coming right now. Is the MJ area affected this bad? We have another vacation coming up in Sep. so we can do it then also. What's your true opinion?


Modified by dreaminbig at 6:06 PM 5/4/2010

[Fiddlefarter]

Mt. Juliet is fine... Honestly I wouldn't be worried about coming at the end of the month. Anything around Nashville that's still jacked up then will still be jacked up in Sept and I'm sure some things will be. There are things that are going to take a long time to get straightened out. But I wouldn't it let it keep me from visiting. JMHO

Now if you were coming this weekend I would say don't come