Tennessee recommendations
Oct 26th 2021, 12:35 am
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Re: Tennessee recommendations
A little off topic but I saw an interesting article about Crossville TN last week. During WW2 Tennessee had six German POW camps with the biggest in Crossville. A German officer captured in North Africa in 1943 spent two years there and later wrote a book about it. The prisoners had it better than most Europeans during the war. Paid to work on local farms and use the money to buy beer and other necessities, and order whatever from Sears catalog. Given three meals a day which they highly rated and teach classes and organize sports teams. This officer returned to Germany after the war and in 1953 emigrated to Tennessee and at the time of the article was a 92 year old resident of Crossville.
After the war there were thousands of German ex POW's that managed to immigrate to America.
Oct 26th 2021, 1:34 pm
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Oct 27th 2021, 6:41 am
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Re: Tennessee recommendations
I don't know why German is listed as a nation, not British, and I'm not sure what American means. Presumably American could be added to English/Scottish/(part)Irish, which would make British the biggest, ahead of German.
Oct 27th 2021, 1:08 pm
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Re: Tennessee recommendations
Oct 30th 2021, 5:52 pm
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Re: Tennessee recommendations
I moved to Clarksville TN from Fort Myers FL last year. I had several reasons for choosing this area, but most important -my youngest son lives just over the state line in KY. There is no TN State income tax. Clarksville is very close to Nashville with direct flights to LHR, Great healthcare @ Vanderbilt, and a low cost of living. One of the other reasons I chose Clarksville is because of access to Fort Campbell where I can use my military benefits. This was a great move for me, and I have no regrets.
