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think "permit to carry concealed"..........:uzi:
 
How is it where you live?

A Yankee probably hates the south...a Redneck probably hates the north...a conservative probably hates California...a liberal probably hates the east coast...etc, etc, etc.
 
Moved to Memphis when I started flying out of here 3 years ago. My familly and I moved from Southern California so it was a bit of a transition at first. However, we really love it now! Great outdoors activities, there's Beal street for night life, very little traffic, compared to LA atleast, low housing costs, felt like they were just giving them away. Also, weather is not too severe, a bit hot in the summer and a month or so of mid 30 weather in the winter, but pretty moderat, I think. I would definatly give it a chance, you might like it. On the down side, public schools arn't too great and you'll have to pay city and county property taxes. I don't think there too outrages though.
Good luck
 
A Yankee probably hates the south...
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Most of Memphis is NOT part of the south. There are some decent places to live, but most of Memphis requires a guard in every parking lot, or your car will not be there when you get out of the grocery store. That is not a joke. Every parking lot has a guard in a car who drives around continually. We don't need that back in Colorado.
 
Pilot lives in memphis has it in his will not to be burried anywhere near it because he hates it so much and doesn't want to spend anymore time there. I still laugh at that one.
 
skykid said:
Most of Memphis is NOT part of the south. There are some decent places to live, but most of Memphis requires a guard in every parking lot, or your car will not be there when you get out of the grocery store. That is not a joke. Every parking lot has a guard in a car who drives around continually. We don't need that back in Colorado.
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THAT is exactly the strangest thing I have ever seen. A guard in the Target parking lot, a guard touring the small (4 stores) strip mall just north of my apt. complex near the Pan Am T.F. And that is 200 yards from the Germantown City Limits.

I just shake my head. Maybe it is better farther out. But this ain't no place for me and my family.
 
Memories

This thread brings back a lot of memories. I lived in Memphis for about 2 years around 2000 and in that time I SAW three dead bodies (they have been murdered) and my roomates car was broken into 3 times. I couldnt get out of there fast enough.
 
Memphis would be a great place to live if it wern't for the people who already live there. Stay far far away from this place.
 
I've been in Collierville for just over 4 years after commuting from the east coast for a couple of years. My quality of life is far better living here. If I were single, maybe a different story, but my biggest problem living here is going to be teaching my kids that most people have to go to work to make money. I'm home all of the time. If I want to I bid out and backs....see my wife and kids eveyday, or I roll the dice and bid reserve...you never know how that is going to work, but that's part of the deal. Living downtown or close to the airport is a different world than living out in the burbs. When I commuted, I hated Memphis. Who want's to sit in a crashpad with a bunch of guys driving a POS airport car still living like you're a broke student when you pull in 6 figures? Moving here was the best move I've made. If you don't like it, that's the nice thing about the job...you don't have to.
 
im a longtime fedex guy and tell all the newbies - dont live there - too many guys say theyll just be there for a little while and 20 years go by - most get sucked in to making extra bucks and start saying - oh its not so bad. remember pilots commute to be away from memphis not to live in memphis
 
only reason i would consider leaving fedex is to never have to commute to or live in memphis... i said id never commute to an airline job...period!!! and when i checked out MEM as a new hire.... well im commuting and will never live in MEM, just a huge quality of life downgrade from what im use to... just my 2 cents
 
check out the suburb of Arlington, it's being developed, is a great place to live if you have to live near Memphis, and only about 1/2 hour from airport.
 
Speedbird34 said:
Moved to Memphis when I started flying out of here 3 years ago. My familly and I moved from Southern California so it was a bit of a transition at first. However, we really love it now! Great outdoors activities, there's Beal street for night life, very little traffic, compared to LA atleast, low housing costs, felt like they were just giving them away. Also, weather is not too severe, a bit hot in the summer and a month or so of mid 30 weather in the winter, but pretty moderat, I think. I would definatly give it a chance, you might like it. On the down side, public schools arn't too great and you'll have to pay city and county property taxes. I don't think there too outrages though.
Good luck
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1. You have to get wanded for weapons before going onto Beale Street at night.

2. There may not be as much traffic, but nobody knows how to drive and most probably don't have insurance.

3. If you send your kid to public school, you have the risk of being carjacked when you wait in line to pick the kid up.

4. It is cheap to buy a house, because nobody wants to live in Memphis. Someone in Germantown was mugged in the front yard of their $400,000 house while doing yardwork.

Don't do it!
 
Everyone wants to tell you they fly the best airplane, make the most money, and have the best quality of life. The guys that decide that they want to commute, good for them. When I commuted, I had to make myself believe that I was doing it for a good reason. Memphis had to suck, or I would be giving up months away from my wife and kids for no reason. I got over that, and now I live in MEM and work in MEM. It's not the best place on earth, but I work and live in the same city. I spend less than 4 nights a month in a hotel and the other days I'm at home with my family. If you do your homework and move into a good area, you will be very happy....I can hear it now..."there is no good area around there..." whatever....I'm home all of the time....If that's not your thing...go spend six months a year away from your family and try to tell yourself it's for their own good.
 
When launching to the south I use to include in my T/O brief that if we don't get at least 10 miles from the departure end of the rwy, we should hope that we don't survive the impact. If you do the local inhabitants will take you out.
 
LaGarbage.... your post reminded me of blackhawk down. :)
 
Well I did not do any time in that particular sandbox. If you are taking ground fire coming into MEM I suppose you could request the overhead and crank it in tight to stay in the airport boundary. A little uncomfortabe for the pax, but it beats the alternative.
 
You could give me a house there, and tuition at a private school for all my kids and I still wouldn't live there. I've never seen so many drifting, shiftless zombie-like people roaming around all day, every day with nothing better to do than walk in the middle of the street like it's a sidewalk. Armpit.
 

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