Learn me: Moving to Kentucky

Most of that movie was shot in Versailles, actually. They were in town for just one day to shoot a couple of scenes in the old downtown area.

Thanks for the info folks. The NCM track looks pretty nice!

My Ohio and Indiana friends say I live in the South.

My Louisiana and Alabama friends say I'm almost a Yankee, but at least I'm not from Ohio.

It's kind of a weird identity crisis, but I think most of us self-identify as southerners.

E-town is okay for a small town. A company I used to work for had a call center in Radcliff, so we'd go down to E-town with some regularity. We spent a lot of time at a place called the Stone Hearth but we always mockingly referred to it as the Gilded Truffle. At the time, it was the "nicest" place in town to eat, but that just meant it was a cut above Subway. It used to be a dry county, but I believe it's moist now. At least one of the bordering counties is full-on wet, though, and Kentucky's counties are pretty tiny, so it's not too much of a drive.

Louisville and Lexington have got some good breweries and entertainment districts cooking these days, there are some minor league sports teams around, and of course the new track at NCM that's been mentioned. You can go up 65 to Indy for Colts or Pacers, I71 for Reds or Bengals, and of course the Cards and the Cats have football, baseball, hockey, and basketball, if that's your thing. KY Speedway in Sparta has some NASCAR oval action, and you can pop over the river into Indiana if you're looking to hit a casino. Of course there's also plenty of good Bourbon to taste and distilleries to tour, plus if you like horse racing, we've got plenty of that. Even if you don't, try to go up to Keenland to watch the auctions - it's pretty fascinating. Sorority day at Keenland's spring meet is worth being at, as well.

Lots of really good roads are available, too, and if you like outdoorsy things, the Daniel Boone National Forest is beautiful, Red River Gorge is great, and Land Between the Lakes is amazing. Lake Cumberland is good, but Dale Hollow is better and less crowded.

I tend to judge places by the sanity of their bureaucracy. I think if you go to Wikipedia and look up the states treatment of liquor, you will get a clear sense that the state is run by some berkeleyed up hypocrites and most likely a general population that fits in with tolerating such stuff.

If you can work with these conditions, then if looks like a lovely piece of real-estate.

NOHOME wrote: I tend to judge places by the sanity of their bureaucracy. I think if you go to Wikipedia and look up the states treatment of liquor, you will get a clear sense that the state is run by some berkeleyed up hypocrites and most likely a general population that fits in with tolerating such stuff. If you can work with these conditions, then if looks like a lovely piece of real-estate.

No need to even go that far. Just look at our senators. Proof positive that most of the population is ignorant or bat-E36 M3 crazy. Possibly both.

But I'm a Connecticut Yankee, so what the berkely do i know.

I'm a lifelong resident of Louisville, but work at Fort Knox. No offense to the board member who lives in E-Town, but you could not pay me to live there. Nice town and all, but the property values are inflated due to the Army post. Your housing money will go further in the surrounding counties and you will have better entertainment and social options. Not to mention the traffic in E-Town is god awful; the people in my office who live there only have a 10 minute or so shorter commute even though they are traveling less than half the distance.

In reply to wae:

You hit the nail on the head with Stone Hearth. That place is a joke. Probably my biggest gripe about the town is the lack of good restraunts (I.e. Not chains). There is an excellent sushi place here, but that's about it. Luckily louisville isn't too far away and there are lots of great places there.