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Asheville, NC cityscape

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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

$776

more expensive each month than Clarksville

Asheville costs meaningfully more. Whether it earns that back in the day-to-day is the actual question.
landable, recorded on the asheville entry

02 · the money

a quick ledger.

01rent

$1,738/mo

30% more expensive than Clarksville(vs $1,337/mo)

02state income tax

4.5%

$375/mo more in state tax than Clarksville

vs 0% in Clarksville

03after rent

$6,220/mo

$776 less than Clarksville

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

04a house here

$430k

46% more expensive than Clarksville

vs $294k in Clarksville

05metro size

417k

vs 337k in Clarksville

03 · the life

field notes, weather & such.

201

pleasant days a year, in asheville.

Clarksville only manages 173 of those.

1650% more happening than in Clarksville.
on a typical month
·outdoorscore

66/100

29% higher than Clarksville

vs 51/100 in Clarksville

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

·walk score®

63/100

24% lower than Clarksville

vs 83/100 in Clarksville

Walk Score® methodology

·nonstops

8

83% fewer than Clarksville

vs 47 nonstops in Clarksville

04 · see also

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