Great Place
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12/22/2007
Lexington, KY is a great place to live. Downtown Lexington is a walkable community with many independent restaurants and a variety of arts and music. There are many apartments, townhomes, and loft condominiums all throughout the downtown area.
Overall, Lexington housing is affordable and there are many things to do including sports, visual arts and music events. Great neighborhoods surround the central downtown area. At the University of Kentucky and Transylvania University there are a plethora of sports and music events. There are free music events at the UK Singletary Center for the Arts. Also there is the Lexington Horseman arena football team.
Keeneland thoroughbred race track is one of the most beautiful tracks in America. If you go for a quick visit to the track you will be swept away with the excitement of the races.
The Lexington area is surrounded by picturesque horse farms and rolling hills not to mention some of the best bourbon distilleries in the world. You will also discover a growing number of small wineries. Many of the distilleries and wineries are available for tours and host music fairs.
There are four seasons in eastern Kentucky including fall and spring that seem to last forever. If you love shoveling snow then this place is not for you. The chilly but mild winters may get a couple of small snowfalls a year.
As you venture out from Lexington there is outdoor recreation including the Daniel Boone National Forest. There are many other universities and colleges within a short drive of Lexington including Eastern Kentucky University, Northern Kentucky University, Morehead State University, Berea College, Centre College and many, many others within a days drive in Kentucky
Louisville, Cincinnati, and Indianapolis are within a few hours drive. Our nation’s capital is only nine hours drive from Lexington.
We found Lexington quite by accident a few years ago. Many of our travels in nomadic life brought us through Lexington. The more we visited here the more we loved this town. And now my wife and I have decided to raise our children here and call Lexington home. I have only touched on how Lexington, Kentucky is a great place; as soon as I quit writing I will think of hundreds of more things I should have mentioned.
Oh ya! There is the Lexington Philharmonic and the Lexington Opera Society. See I told I would think of more.
Bp | Lexington-Fayette, KY