Sounds great. My family and I took a vacation in and around Chattanooga a few years ago and we thought it was a great part of the country (from northern Virginia).

Your experience confirms this. I think the idea of "having" to be in Silicon Valley, or even other tech hotspots like Boston or the D.C. metro area (where I live) is just wrong.

The cost of living in those places ranges from high to insane, but there are lots of great places to live in this country. Physical proximity should be treated as less critical, because _it is_.

I hope it works out for you.