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Babylon said:Memphis is a s**! hole! I mean it completely sucks. Every time I go there I find a new reason to hate the area. Let me list a few:
1) Weather sucks - out of 12 months you've got 5 months where it is grueling hot and you want to shoot yourself and another 4 months where it's very cold
2) Not an ounce of natural beauty in the area. I mean I challenge one person to name something beautiful about the area
3) Traffic stinks - it's worse than DC or southern California - truly
4) Worst gov't management imaginable. On all aspects - from running the city to fixing the roads - it's truly ridiculous
5) Rampant racisim - white on black and black on white - not a place I want to raise my kids
6) Downright depressing - compared to say the coasts, you'll be depressed living in this area. The shopping stinks, grocery stinks (it's like you stepped back into time when you walk into your local Kroger store), most of the neighborhoods stink
So there you have a few. Yes Collierville and Germantown are ok but hey let's face it you live in Memphis. Whatever happens in Memphis has a huge impact on the entire metropolitan area. Oh yea, real estate is cheap. I wonder why??
Do the right thing - live somewhere nice and commute in. Your family will love you for it. Oh one final thing I forgot - the crew force - night and day difference from working out of Memphis and working out of one of the other domiciles.
Goose17 said:A majority of the guys live in either Germantown or Collierville. Probably the best areas around here. We do have guys living all over the greater area though.
Don't ask me though - I'm moving to Fort Worth in a couple weeks.
Goose17
T2Pilot said:Is there a line you can hold in F/W or are you commuting? I hope to get hired by FedEx - rather not commute but would love to move back to DFW area.
T2Pilot said:Is there a line you can hold in F/W or are you commuting? I hope to get hired by FedEx - rather not commute but would love to move back to DFW area.
Goose17 said:When living in Memphis (Germantown) I used to cringe when I had to go to Walmart for something I could only get there. It was truely a painful experience.
Last week, now in my small Texan town (NW of Fort Worth), I reluctantly went into Walmart for something and was totally shocked! I did not realize that not ALL the stores sucked so bad. People were helpful, friendly, and the place was clean. Employees were smiling and would go out of their way to come up and try to assist you. The first person that came up to me, I yelled "Oh, God, NO!" and tried to hand him my wallet. He just gave me a big Texan smile and tried to calm me down.
Now I can't say I hated living in Memphis, but I guess I was tainted living there so long and I lost touch with reality on how life can be pleasant and fun. That being said, the easiest flying I have done while junior has DEFINITELY been while living in Memphis.
Tradeoffs no matter how you slice it. If you move to the Memphis area, you will feel better rested and your family will see you more. If you live elsewhere, you might get a better education for the kids and you stand a better chance of not getting gang raped!
Goose17 (recovering from my first commuter trip, but still smiling)
MAGNUM!! said:Whaddya mean?![]()