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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

$466

more each month than Dallas ran you

Asheville runs a little pricier than Dallas. 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

6% more expensive than Dallas(vs $1,647/mo)

02state income tax

4.5%

$375/mo more in state tax than Dallas

vs 0% in Dallas

03after rent

$6,220/mo

$466 less than Dallas

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

04a house here

$430k

17% more expensive than Dallas

vs $367k in Dallas

05metro size

417k

vs 8.1M in Dallas

03 · the life

field notes, weather & such.

201

pleasant days a year, in asheville.

Dallas barely cracks 171 pleasant ones.

Lighter on events: Dallas packs 12.6× more into a month.
on a typical month
·outdoorscore

66/100

16% higher than Dallas

vs 57/100 in Dallas

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

·walk score®

63/100

32% lower than Dallas

vs 93/100 in Dallas

Walk Score® methodology

·nonstops

8

96% fewer than Dallas

vs 190 nonstops in Dallas

04 · see also

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