What's it Like to Live on a Hill?

Flat is boring! We like our hills.

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Mike

Tango- Don't sweat the hill in the winter time, just make sure the barn is downhill that way you can sled (either on snow or mud, lol) down to do chores. :haha:

Honestly with 5 acres that are flat on top you are all set up. That is a lot of area to work with.

Deb

Tango,

Welcome to the great state of Tennessee!! I am a proud HILLbilly!

Tim

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Thanks everyone. This thread has allowed me to make the deposit I'll be signing papers on Tuesday. I'll be there if all goes welll, by May Tim Hey Deb, that sounds like fun. Even my son might want to do chores that way

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Tango
where in TN? I haven't read the whole thread carefully.

Also, your friend Saijen lives on a hill not a small mtn. She surrounded by ridges of the TN mountains up near Nc/TN/ VA intersection.

It's beautifullllll..

Angie

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Mike checked out the pics where are the hills? :haha: Around here that would be considerd rolling.

big rockpile

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We'll have to get together this summer this property is in sw Tennessee - not close by to Saijen but a lot closer than Florida is to you two now

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Nice pictures Mike! Although I would call that flat land, lol. Sometimes pictures are hard to tell how much slope you have, I was going thru my pictures, but they were not showing the steepness like I wanted.

A hill around here causes us to use 4 wheel drive when it's raining.

Deb

One of the prettiest sights I have ever seen was when I was coming back to Texas(16yrs ago) ,driving the highway, I came around a huge curve and there on my left was a Tenn hill with a man and his team of horses plowing the hillside. Very steep. That beautiful vision will stick with me until I die.

I see you went ahead and signed the papers Tango. But as other people have said, once you live there a while, you will be happy you found your place.

I live on top of a hill (luckily on the southern side, so I do get more sun!) and as everybody else said, it is WINDY! I keep thinking a windmill would come in handy.

We have a state road right outside the house, so driveways washing out are not a problem. However, even being on a hill, our basement has got water in it. About 3 times in the past 2 years, but last year was really wet. Our well is a hand dug well only 18' deep, so being on a hill doesn't elimate water altogether!!

It is a real problem on the lawn mower which I'm sure is why it is always being repaired, but we wouldn't trade our place for anywhere. In fact, it's been in my wife's family for over 125 years!

Good luck!

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"Everything happens for a reason."

Lots of UPs and DOWNs.

Tango- I spent my childhood in a tiny house on a steep hill in the DC suburbs. We had no where to play. My father built 2 terraces about 2 feet wide across the back hill to garden on. He laid a ladder against the back hill for climbing. He tied a long rope to lawnmower, climbed the ladder, then pulled it up the hill and let it down the hill.

Translate "Windy" as "enjoying air flow". You'll never find a hill house stultifying in the stagnant heat like a swamp...