ath: Xref: usenet.INS.cwru.edu comp.unix.solaris:427430 rec.food.restaurants:56651 "Vadim V. Kouevda" originally inquired: | | I might consider a job in "Knoxville, Tennessee" and just wanted | to ask "anyone from that area in here?" How is UNIX life in | there? Average/good salary for Solaris admin. Cost of life? | Salary calculators show 1:0.65 for that area in comparison with | NY/NJ metropolitan area (which is obviously 1). Is it real? ..and "Michael Vilain " replied: > > Talk about qualifity of life. We all have what's important to us. > If it's Walmart and Safeway (e.g. A&P or Piggly Wiggly), Knoxville > might be OK. Don't expect a decent borscht or latkes. _Maybe_ you > might find an OK Chinese place but Indian might be doubtful. Try > going into a supermarket and asking for "lemon grass" or galongal > (prime ingredient in Thai soups). ..and Vadim V. Kouevda commented: | | Got it. Though borscht is my national dish and can make it on my | own, without Japanese and Indian it doesn't sound too good... :-( Michael did not say if he had ever actually been to Knoxville. While I'm now in Massachusetts, I lived in Knoxville for 8 years, so perhaps I can provide more direct knowledge. While Knoxville is a medium-sized city, it contains the flagship campus of the University of Tennessee, and Oak Ridge National Laboratory is 28 miles way, and thus the area attracts a population of students, scholars, and scientists from many nations. There are at least two Indian restaurants now in Knoxville (the Sitar and the Kashmir), although these opened since I lived there. There are several good Chinese restaurants; the Canton has good dim sum on Sundays, and we enjoyed the Dragon Den, which is operated by a retired physicist. For Mexican food, we used to go to Garcia's or Monterrey. Other national cuisines available in the area include Japan, Thailand, Korea, Vietnam, and Australia; of course, as in any other American city, you have the expected roster of Italian, French, and seafood places. (Lest you accuse me of being too positive, there are some places I don't recommend: for instance, I regard the Chinese food at the Mandarin as too Americanized, and to enjoy Cozymel's I think you need to be in a really frivolous mood.... And I don't know of a place to get good borscht in Knoxville. :-) On the other hand, if you investigate East Tennessee dining for any length of time, you'll eventually discover Calhoun's and Buddy's, but I'll leave that as an exercise for the reader. Now, as regards non-food aspects of life: the cost of living in East Tennessee is significantly lower than in the New York City/ Northern New Jersey area, with the the biggest contributing factors being housing costs and utilities. Your rent or mortgage payment is where most of the difference shows up. Employers know this, so that's why the salary scales may be lower than in NY/NJ. And there is Unix life in Knoxville. I'm cross-posting this to the newsgroup "tn.unix", which would be the specific appropriate forum, although I haven't followed it recently. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ NB: If you regarded the above text as insufficiently relevant to Solaris, perhaps you can ignore it, and enjoy viewing the output of this command: % netstat -n | tr -s " " " " | cut -d" " -f7 | tail +5 | sort | uniq -c On the other hand, this thread must be an improvement over the flood of off-topic venomous name-calling that "comp.unix.solaris" has endured this month. :-( Have a nice day. Richard S. Shuford
Knoxville, TN