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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

$49

more each month than Greeley ran you

Almost a wash on cost. The case for Asheville is about what you'd do there, not what you'd save.
landable, recorded on the asheville entry

02 · the money

a quick ledger.

01rent

$1,738/mo

2% more expensive than Greeley(vs $1,698/mo)

02state income tax

4.5%

$8/mo more in state tax than Greeley

vs 4.4% in Greeley

03after rent

$6,220/mo

$49 less than Greeley

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

04a house here

$430k

13% cheaper than Greeley

vs $497k in Greeley

05metro size

417k

vs 359k in Greeley

03 · the life

field notes, weather & such.

201

pleasant days a year, in asheville.

Greeley barely cracks 177 pleasant ones.

775% more happening than in Greeley.
on a typical month
·outdoorscore

66/100

1% lower than Greeley

vs 67/100 in Greeley

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

·walk score®

63/100

5% lower than Greeley

vs 66/100 in Greeley

Walk Score® methodology

·nonstops

8

95% fewer than Greeley

vs 169 nonstops in Greeley

04 · see also

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