$100k salary, packing up from Cincinnati

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Asheville, NC cityscape

swapping out of cincinnati

Asheville

nc · metro 417k

a dispatch from

asheville

NC

35.58°N

82.55°W

Asheville is what happens when a mountain town and an art school have a baby and raise it on craft beer. Downtown packs more breweries per capita than almost anywhere in America, plus buskers on every corner and Art Deco buildings the Depression accidentally preserved (the city went broke before it could tear them down). The Biltmore, America's largest private home, looms on the edge of town like a stone-carved flex. Remote workers keep showing up, which is how you know.

metro417k

01 · the verdict

the verdict

$232

the monthly cost of moving past Cincinnati

Asheville runs a little pricier than Cincinnati. The case has to be about something other than rent.
landable, recorded on the asheville entry

02 · the money

a quick ledger.

01rent

$1,738/mo

12% more expensive than Cincinnati(vs $1,549/mo)

02state income tax

4.5%

$43/mo more in state tax than Cincinnati

vs 3.99% in Cincinnati

03after rent

$6,220/mo

$232 less than Cincinnati

gross of federal tax. a comparison, not a paycheck.

04a house here

$430k

36% more expensive than Cincinnati

vs $316k in Cincinnati

05metro size

417k

vs 2.3M in Cincinnati

03 · the life

field notes, weather & such.

201

pleasant days a year, in asheville.

Cincinnati barely cracks 162 pleasant ones.

Lighter on events: Cincinnati packs 2.5× more into a month.
on a typical month
·outdoorscore

66/100

8% lower than Cincinnati

vs 72/100 in Cincinnati

Closest outdoor draw: Great Smoky Mountains National Park, 74.8 mi.

·walk score®

63/100

34% lower than Cincinnati

vs 96/100 in Cincinnati

Walk Score® methodology

·nonstops

8

83% fewer than Cincinnati

vs 47 nonstops in Cincinnati

04 · see also

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