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Asheville, NC cityscape

if you left corpus christi

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

$703

more expensive each month than Corpus Christi

Asheville costs more than Corpus Christi, and you'll feel it. The upside has to come from somewhere other than your budget.
landable, recorded on the asheville entry

02 · the money

a quick ledger.

01rent

$1,738/mo

23% more expensive than Corpus Christi(vs $1,410/mo)

02state income tax

4.5%

$375/mo more in state tax than Corpus Christi

vs 0% in Corpus Christi

03after rent

$6,220/mo

$703 less than Corpus Christi

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

04a house here

$430k

94% more expensive than Corpus Christi

vs $221k in Corpus Christi

05metro size

417k

vs 446k in Corpus Christi

03 · the life

field notes, weather & such.

201

pleasant days a year, in asheville.

Corpus Christi only logs 171 pleasant days.

Nights and weekends fill up faster. 2.1× more on the calendar than Corpus Christi.
on a typical month
·outdoorscore

66/100

32% higher than Corpus Christi

vs 50/100 in Corpus Christi

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

·walk score®

63/100

10% lower than Corpus Christi

vs 70/100 in Corpus Christi

Walk Score® methodology

·nonstops

8

100% more than Corpus Christi

vs 4 nonstops in Corpus Christi

04 · see also

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