{"id":9,"date":"2026-09-04T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.room-vu.com\/shaunamasonrealtor-com\/2026\/09\/04\/moving-to-tennessee-reasons-to-move-and-important-things-to-know\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T16:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T16:00:00","slug":"moving-to-tennessee-reasons-to-move-and-important-things-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shaunamasonrealtor.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/04\/moving-to-tennessee-reasons-to-move-and-important-things-to-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Moving to Tennessee: Reasons to Move and Important Things to Know"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"roomvu-news-container\">\n<p>Tennessee attracts nearly 64,000 new residents yearly due to no state income tax, a cost of living 10\u201315% below the national average, and a strong job market in healthcare, tech, and manufacturing. Outdoor access to the Great Smoky Mountains and affordable housing, especially in Memphis, are key draws. Downsides include high sales tax (9.61%), hot humid summers, limited public transit, traffic congestion in Nashville and Memphis, and varying school quality.<\/p>\n<p>\t<a class=\"roomvu-news-continue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sparefoot.com\/blog\/moving-to-tennessee\"><\/p>\n<div>Continue to full article<\/div>\n<p>\t<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tennessee attracts nearly 64,000 new residents yearly due to no state income tax, a cost of living 10\u201315% below the national average, and a strong job market in healthcare, tech, and manufacturing. Outdoor access to the Great Smoky Mountains and affordable housing, especially in Memphis, are key draws. Downsides include high sales tax (9.61%), hot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":373,"featured_media":34,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shaunamasonrealtor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shaunamasonrealtor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shaunamasonrealtor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shaunamasonrealtor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/373"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shaunamasonrealtor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shaunamasonrealtor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shaunamasonrealtor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shaunamasonrealtor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shaunamasonrealtor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shaunamasonrealtor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}