I hope your move goes smoothly. I've been looking at central Florida, but everyone else has deeper pockets than I. Not crazy about the 20 feet between you and your neighbor either.
While I really enjoy my time in TN and think it's absolutely gorgeous I'd never get my wife to move there.
There's plenty of places you can go on the internet to be openly racist, homophobic and ignorant as you want. This isn't one of them.
If asking for tact is too much, then it just is what it is.