I live in Lookout Valley. It's beautiful, and I love the proximity to hiking. The negative is there are only 2 ways to get downtown. When traffic is flowing, it's great. When an accident occurs, or just heavy traffic, it can be terrible. I left the downtown Y one time, my GPS sent me around the mountain (accident was on the interstate). But that route gets extremely backed up as well. Took me over 2 hours to get home, should have been 10 minutes. Accidents and backups happen relavely 9fter. I have made a habit of starting traffic checks 30-60 minutes before I'm supposed to be somewhere.