Reviews & Comments
Knoxville, TN
Knoxville -
1/11/2017We live in West Knoxville and have lived here about a year. I have lived in many places, full of diversity, and then not so diverse. Mostly, I do like West Knoxville, but my main concern is the quality of healthcare and air issues.
West Knoxville Pros:
Friendly people, except some people in Farragut
Old-fashioned feel
Beautiful views
Kingston Pike area is nice, but once you get off the main roads, it turns into something out of Deliverance
Slow pace of life, but seems to me a better place to retire
Low traffic
Cheap Housing
Cheap Groceries
West Knoxville feels safe
East Knoxville needs improvement and I am afraid after dark (around the zoo area-where we are supposed to take our kids), and I've been to Camden, New Jersey. :-/
I cannot speak on the school system because we homeschool. There are a number of homeschooling options.
A good number of parks
Knoxville Cons:
Healthcare is absolutely awful. Think about the ways other cities were doing things twenty years ago-that is is how doctors are still treating illnesses here. Children's hospital and care especially...no good. If you have a child with a chronic disease, this is not the place to be. I really wish I would have done more research. We have children with heart defects. They are not equipped to adequately care for children with special needs. This is all of the doctors I have dealt with here, not just one. The closest decent hospitals are Atlanta, Nashville, or Cincinnati.
Air quality is terrible
Very shotty housing construction. Pre-existing homes are older and need a lot of work. Otherwise, everyone seems to be self-proclaimed house flippers here and trying to make a buck.