Tell me about Louisville, Ky

SWMBO and I both grew up in Metro Detroit and have spent the last 7 years living near Chicago. We're looking at areas that we might like to move to within the next couple of years.

Having spent decades around Detroit there just isn't anywhere I want to live. Most of the jobs I find don't pay enough to live within an hour of the office. I spent 5 years commuting from one side of town to the other and I really don't want to do that anymore.

Chicago's nice and all but the taxes are incredible (10.25% sales tax, my property taxes are 325% more than they were for my comparable place in MI). Traffic is also a nightmare. We never go downtown because we live 40 miles from the city which means a 2-3 hour trip both ways, even on weekends. Its more affordable out here (and we both work about 10 miles from home) but we never get into the city for any events.

So what can you tell me about Louisville, KY?

What do you like / dislike?

How's the ...food? ...music? ...racing?

What areas should we check out / avoid?

Let me know what you know, GRM.

I live about 40 miles south of louisville, so I can't tell you much about the living/housing type thing. However I can say that the traffic isn't terrible. Sure there are a few E36 M3ty spots, like every city, but overall its quite easy to navigate. There are some good food areas, especially down Bardstown Rd. * Fair warning*** Bardstown rRd (primarily around 'the highlands') is the hipster side of town. As long as you can handle that, its a good area to go to.

Now to the important part: Racing. Although we don't have a road course near by (putnam park is the closest), we have a great autocross region. 3 lots in louisville and we should gain a 4th when the Corvette Museum opens their road course. It's a smoothly ran club with plenty of competition (several tour winners and a few national champs).The drag racing scene is pretty big, but we don't have a 1/4 mile track. only 1/8th mile, so that sucks. There is also a great indoor karting track out in the east end of the city. Great guys that own/run it and its a fun place to race.

Now the general rule of thumb to Louisville is that the west end = craphole, east end = nice. lol

I hope that helps!

My sister lives there. Steer clear of her and her husband (who is the dumbest service tech on earth, he claims the first thing I needed to do to my ms3 was "cam it"...) and you should be fine. I hear the BBQ is good.

I was in Fern Creek (South) Louisville for awhile. It was a good place, they had a great bus system back then. Expensive, however, but if you're from worse you'll be good. The Derby rules downtown when it's in town, plenty of stuff to do. Thunder over Louisville was a fantastic fireworks show. I liked it, but we couldn't keep affording it.

Born and raised here.

I like it well enough. Cost of living is good, utilities are cheap. Good spread of industry.

Plenty of Humidity.

Probably something for everyone as regards housing/lifestyle.

Downtown isn't really 'lived in' as much as visited.

Good local eats on Bardstown Rd, Frankfort ave.

Feel free to ask via pm/email about more specifics. Certain neighborhoods may seem good until UPS is flying over at 2am every night (UPS hub in in Louisville)

-James

My parents met there (and both lived there for 4-8 years) and have always told us kids that if we end up there, we would have to put up with them visiting all the time. And this is after 2 of moms cousins have relocated there as well.

I don't know much about it, but if my parents (who live in northern Chicagoland) are saying that, it is probably pretty good. Actually, I think that they have mentioned it in passing as a possible "southern hub" for them when they retire.

Louisville is a city in Kentucky and KY is a product you use to make the first few days of incarceration less painful.

Giant Purple Snorklewacker wrote: Louisville is a city in Kentucky and KY is a product you use to make the first few days of incarceration less painful.

Wanna go camping?

I love it here.

I live just outside of Louisville. If you want live music every night, you can find it. If you want a different awesome local eatery every day, they're there. Stephen touched on our local autocross scene and lack of road course. A friend and I have also been rallycrossing with the Indiana Rallycross club, but that's a 2.5-3 hour drive on average.

As was already mentioned, the Highlands and Clifton are the hip parts of town. If you want an urban setting with a lot of creative people and great food within walking distance, that's your best bet. I choose to live a bit further out so that I can have a couple of acres and a lot more home for my money, but I totally understand the appeal of living in the more populated areas.

They make nice baseball bats