$100k a year, no longer in Columbus

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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

$392

more each month than Columbus ran you

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

38% more expensive than Columbus(vs $1,264/mo)

02state income tax

4.5%

$82/mo less in state tax than Columbus

vs 5.49% in Columbus

03after rent

$6,220/mo

$392 less than Columbus

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

04a house here

$430k

107% more expensive than Columbus

vs $208k in Columbus

05metro size

417k

vs 329k in Columbus

03 · the life

field notes, weather & such.

201

pleasant days a year, in asheville.

Columbus keeps to 177 pleasant days a year.

1.5× the events of Columbus, and the calendar shows it.
on a typical month
·outdoorscore

66/100

40% higher than Columbus

vs 47/100 in Columbus

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

·walk score®

63/100

19% lower than Columbus

vs 78/100 in Columbus

Walk Score® methodology

·nonstops

8

700% more than Columbus

vs 1 nonstops in Columbus

04 · see also

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