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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

$157

lighter monthly cost than Hagerstown

Money-wise it's a wash. The case for Asheville is everything that isn't rent.
landable, recorded on the asheville entry

02 · the money

a quick ledger.

01rent

$1,738/mo

10% more expensive than Hagerstown(vs $1,587/mo)

02state income tax

4.5%

$308/mo less in state tax than Hagerstown

vs 8.2% in Hagerstown

03after rent

$6,220/mo

$157 more than Hagerstown

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

04a house here

$430k

34% more expensive than Hagerstown

vs $321k in Hagerstown

05metro size

417k

vs 305k in Hagerstown

03 · the life

field notes, weather & such.

201

pleasant days a year, in asheville.

Hagerstown barely cracks 160 pleasant ones.

94% more happening than in Hagerstown.
on a typical month
·outdoorscore

66/100

18% higher than Hagerstown

vs 56/100 in Hagerstown

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

·walk score®

63/100

28% lower than Hagerstown

vs 88/100 in Hagerstown

Walk Score® methodology

·nonstops

8

300% more than Hagerstown

vs 2 nonstops in Hagerstown

04 · see also

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