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DH likes to drop a bombshell every now and then....do I want to move to Memphis for a couple of years?!

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CantSleepWontSleep · 29/10/2007 22:13

He says that Memphis isn't a terribly safe place , so we'd live a bit outside it.

I've never lived anywhere outside the UK. Last year MNers persuaded me that it would be good to move to Toronto for 6 months, but nothing came of it in the end.

DD is now almost 21 months, so we'd possibly be away until she is 4. We are also ttc, so we'd potentially have a second dc whilst out there.

Does anyone have any advice, either generally, or about this area specifically. I know absolutely nothing about Memphis (well, except Elvis, obv!).

I do feel very settled where we are now. We've lived here for 6.5yrs, and I have a big group of 'baby friends'. I think my biggest concern about going would be dd and I missing out on the busy social life that we have now, and going somewhere where we know no-one.

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jabberwocky · 30/10/2007 12:24

And how could you not love a town that has both Graceland (Elvis' home) and its own pyramid?!!

CantSleepWontSleep · 30/10/2007 12:30

A pyramid? Wow . See, I've learnt something about it already!

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MeMySonAndI · 30/10/2007 22:01

JAberwocky, I think I will email my friend with those details!

jabberwocky · 31/10/2007 01:01

Yes, truly, she doesn't know what she is missing. And I totally forgot to mention the baseball team!

MeMySonAndI · 31/10/2007 09:18

Erm no... that she won't be interested in!

But I'm definitvely sending an email with all the other things you mentioned

MeMySonAndI · 01/11/2007 23:09

Erm... sent her the email and... she has replied saying that she lives in Main Street!

I think she will never be able to put Barcelona behind herself!

jabberwocky · 02/11/2007 19:12

Wow, she lives downtown and still hasn't found anything to do?

Tell you what, next time I go to Memphis I will CAT you with my cell #. If she wants, she can call me and I'll show her around town my way

MeMySonAndI · 04/11/2007 10:34

She took a stroll around Main Stret yesterday venturing beyond Starbucks and has started to find the place interesting

CantSparkleWontSparkle · 04/11/2007 14:20

That's good MMS&I. How long has she taken to get round to this?!

Still no more news here, but will keep you updated when there is.

jabberwocky · 04/11/2007 15:49

Yay! Glad to hear she's moving beyond the mall. Tell her to try Jamaican jerk chicken or shrimp at Automatic Slim's (definitely need a reservation), barbecued lamb riblets at the Rendezvous and have some before or after dinner drinks in the lobby of the Peabody. There's also a great coffee and pastry shop on the corner of I think Beale and 2nd st. Not sure if that's absolutely correct but it's something like the Blues City pastry shop. Anyway, I think the owner may be a New Orleans transplant.

Oh, and the North End restaraunt near the pyramid has all kinds of great beers.

jabberwocky · 04/11/2007 15:55

And Sunday Champagne Brunch at the top of the Peabody is AWESOME!

Gawd, I'm getting misty over not living there anymore....

FluffyMummy123 · 04/11/2007 15:57

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