Moving to Tennessee, locals please help out

Originally Posted by sidepasser

Hi,

I have been looking for some land up in Tennessee, but do not want to be in eastern tennessee (too many people!!!), but liked the area up above Huntsville, Alabama across the border in Tennessee. I found one farm that I liked, it has about 200 acres and a house, and is 1/2 million. I don't know if that is high or not?

What I am looking for is between 100 and 250 acres and a house with a barn (doesn't have to be a new barn or a new house), but land must be fenced with good fencing, some sort of creek/spring/pond on property, well, septic, and have electric. I do not want to live in the mountains (I am too old to go up one side and down the other - ha!) but don't mind rolling hills. Want some land in pasture, some in hay fields or fields that could be used for hay.

Schools don't matter, my son won't be going to one there as I am waiting till he graduates to move, but want to look now and if I find something, put a contract on it. Oh and I don't mind not being heavily populated. I'm looking for something in the 1500 to 2000 an acre range - is that possible in Tennessee?

Ideas, comments, suggestions? I know, I know, stay home in GA...ha! Where in the state should I start looking - I have looked from the Gatlinburg area over to the Kingston area and back down to Georgia but think I should be looking further west?

Thanks - and sorry to hijack the thread but I've always loved Tennesse and Kentucky and one or the other will be where I move to - but far away from the cities. My place here will sell in no time, so am not worried about that, just don't want to end up where a highway will cut through my future farm.
I've made three trips in the last eight months so far, but haven't found "the place" yet.
Sidepasser

Originally Posted by Paranoid

Well, I live for hiking, fishing, and above all subsistence wilderness camping. (1 gun, a couple knives, snares, bare necessities, lose yourself for a couple weeks in the wilderness) that is living to me.

I have never gone caving but the idea of doing it sounds like it'd be just as good as my other activities, and very exciting. I'm sure my brother would think the same way too, although he doesn't go for my subsistance camping.

hunting is a love of mine. I like to be self sufficient, and I am a gun nut . I am of the school of thought, that if you kill it, you eat it and dont waste anything.

what attracted me to TN was going camping in NC in the smokies. I started looking for land a couple years ago and NC prices are astronomical, probably due to all the restricted communities. But I need unrestricted, full mineral rights etc. and as I researched it, I remembered when I drove over the blue ridge into TN and it was just as beautiful -- without the negative aspects of NC and in many parts property wasn't as inflated. I really love how the flora in the area was brought down from way up north. Seeing things that normally only grow north of michigan all the way down here really got me going. I was sipping sassafras tea and wondering if I should tap that maple tree for syrup the next morning.

So I expanded my search west and saw the same beautiful land to the west, except the cities there were too dense. I looked further west and saw the cumberland area. Now I will be going up soon to check it out.

i do as much farming as I can where I live now, but the soil is horrid. horrid. I remember when I went camping the soil up there was a rich loam, I was impressed. I grow many things from herbs to corn and melons. I try to be self sufficient and hopefully moving to TN will allow me to be moreso, and let me work fewer hours in the city (my current work shifts are killing me) and augment that lower pay with things my 2 hands can provide.

i work 13 hour days in a lab, unlikely i'll be having a good day, but you have one nonetheless