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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

$261

more expensive each month than Fayetteville

Asheville runs a little pricier than Fayetteville. 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

18% more expensive than Fayetteville(vs $1,477/mo)

02state income tax

4.5%

vs 4.5% in Fayetteville

03after rent

$6,220/mo

$261 less than Fayetteville

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

04a house here

$430k

67% more expensive than Fayetteville

vs $258k in Fayetteville

05metro size

417k

vs 392k in Fayetteville

03 · the life

field notes, weather & such.

201

pleasant days a year, in asheville.

Fayetteville barely cracks 193 pleasant ones.

Nights and weekends fill up faster. 2.3× more on the calendar than Fayetteville.
on a typical month
·outdoorscore

66/100

29% higher than Fayetteville

vs 51/100 in Fayetteville

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

·walk score®

63/100

17% lower than Fayetteville

vs 76/100 in Fayetteville

Walk Score® methodology

·nonstops

8

100% more than Fayetteville

vs 4 nonstops in Fayetteville

04 · see also

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