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Posted on 12/6/14 at 8:29 am to DevilDogTiger
Thank you all for your responses, I figured there'd be some jabs in there as well...a little more info. She has been teaching in a private school here about 2 years now since graduation, but it is a 45 minute drive each way for her. As some asked she has tried Murfreesboro (We live in Smyrna) and would be ecstatic if she could get into Rutherford County Schools. She has also tried Maury, Williamson, Wilson, and Metro Public. We do not have children, but in the next 5 years or so we probably will.
Knowing that eventually we will want to be around parents/family when we do have children is a major plus on the BR side.
Tampa would be awesome to live in, but the practicality of that seems to be fading every day, considering I'd be moving even further from family, it is not a big deal but right now I can jump on the highway and be somewhere in an emergency in less than 8 hours. I would say my choices would be either to stay here in Nashville or move to BR.
Knowing that eventually we will want to be around parents/family when we do have children is a major plus on the BR side.
Tampa would be awesome to live in, but the practicality of that seems to be fading every day, considering I'd be moving even further from family, it is not a big deal but right now I can jump on the highway and be somewhere in an emergency in less than 8 hours. I would say my choices would be either to stay here in Nashville or move to BR.
Posted on 12/6/14 at 8:36 am to Yat27
Thanks for this. It certainly is a tough decision. I see some friends that do have children here, along with their families and I see they enjoy life much more than the friends with children without family here.
Posted on 12/6/14 at 8:43 am to Traffic Circle
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How much do you make?
LOL I won't divulge that information. Let's just say enough to cover my gawdy student loan payments to have enough left over to enjoy myself here in Nashville.
Posted on 12/6/14 at 8:49 am to jbgleason
Have you considered Morgan City?
Posted on 12/6/14 at 8:56 am to ztro4
I lived 2 minutes from my parents for the last three years. I'm actually staying with them as we just moved out of our house and are waiting to close on the other. Its nice to be able to drop off the dog or my son for a bit and know you have a baby sitter. I'm close with my family , but to be honest I'm excited to move and being 6 hours away from family wasn't even a blip on the radar as far as being a concern. I just don't see how there is an entire world out there and people choose to live 10 minutes from where they were born. I'll still see my family often, probably once a month. I'd rather see what else is out there personally.
Posted on 12/6/14 at 8:58 am to ztro4
quote:never an option
Move to Baton Rouge
Posted on 12/6/14 at 8:58 am to ztro4
1 or 2. Try St. Petersburg instead of Tampa though.
Posted on 12/6/14 at 9:10 am to 13SaintTiger
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His wife isn't trying hard enough to land a teaching job. Nashville and the surrounding market is limitless.
This. Davidson County Schools are shite. The best schools are the Private Schools and they're everywhere. CPA, Harpeth,MBA,Brentwood,...etc.
Stay in Nashville,we moved back home 10 yrs ago, and we've kicked ourselves in the arse ever since.
Posted on 12/6/14 at 9:10 am to ztro4
I think Baton Rouge all the way with your circumstances. I think the private schools in the area are very difficult to get a foot in the door but once you do, its great. I know a couple of people that moved here just to get into the private schools (to teach). It took one 2 years and another 3 years to get in Dunham and from what I understand they were extremely lucky to get in that quickly. She would need to start applying ASAP and still target some of the outlying school districts in AP and LP.
Posted on 12/6/14 at 9:13 am to ztro4
You will never be to old to make new friendships.
I wouldn't move to Baton Rouge if I could help it. ( I live there)
I wouldn't move to Baton Rouge if I could help it. ( I live there)
Posted on 12/6/14 at 9:28 am to ztro4
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She has been teaching in a private school here about 2 years now since graduation, but it is a 45 minute drive each way for her
You like Nashville
She has a job
You can work from anywhere.
Move closer to her school. Seems simple.
Posted on 12/6/14 at 9:36 am to jbgleason
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Typical thread regarding Baton Rouge on a LSU centric site. I never understand the haters. BR is an awesome place to live and raise kids. Tons of teaching work from inner city (some people like that) to private, suburban, rural and university positions. IT did you say? Hmmm... IBM just broke ground on a major center downtown and is looking for employees. They are in the process of building multiple new residential locations for "young professional" couples just like yall. You have family here? Best reason yet. Because at the end of the day, screw people on the Internet, blood is what counts.
Reasons to hate Baton Rouge:
1. Traffic is abysmal
2. Crime is rampant
3. Public transportation is unreliable
4. Bar scene is mediocre for a city its size
5. It's "not New Orleans"
6. School system is atrocious
Reasons to love Baton Rouge:
1. Bar and restaurant scene is constantly improving
2. Crime is on the decline and gentrification on the rise (especially in Capitol Heights and Old South Baton Rouge, aka The Bottom).
3. low cost of living
4. outstanding parks and library system
5. Great local jobs market
6. There are many neighborhoods insulated from the traffic (i.e. not everyone has to live in a shitty suburban clusterf*&k neighborhood)
7. Downtown is changing for the better
8. We're getting a street car
9. Government Street and Perkins Overpass Area
10. Kip Holden is hilarious.
This post was edited on 12/6/14 at 10:18 am
Posted on 12/6/14 at 9:37 am to ztro4
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LOL I won't divulge that information. Let's just say enough to cover my gawdy student loan payments to have enough left over to enjoy myself here in Nashville.
Try Lafayette, it's like Baton Rouge, but better.
Posted on 12/6/14 at 9:38 am to kingbob
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5. It's "not New Orleans"
quote:But they want to be sooooo bad..... Get rid of the Baptist
8. We're getting a street car
Posted on 12/6/14 at 10:00 am to SuperSaint
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Get rid of the Baptist
On this, we can agree. The problem is that different groups in the city want the town to have completely different identities.
The white-flight crowd wants it to be the Woodlands, the rednecks want it to be the town from Footloose, the blacks want it to be Harlem circa 1927, the young whites want it to be Austin or New Orleans, The Legislatures want it to be D.C., while the Old Money crowd still thinks it's a small river town of 20,000 people.
Baton Rouge struggles for an identity because of it's transplant nature (Foreign and out of state students thanks to LSU and Yankees, mostly from Ohio, that came to work in the plants) and it's location at the crossroads of several distinct cultures (protestant rednecks from Mississippi and North LA, Catholic Cajuns from Acadiana, and Catholic Creoles from New Orleans) who all want mutually exclusive things.
Posted on 12/6/14 at 10:15 am to kingbob
Baton Rouge sucks now on multiple levels. Public schools are overrun by thugs and private schools don't pay well. I see ads looking for teachers all the time in Austin and Round Rock TX. There is way less of that element here.
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