$100k salary, packing up from Kennewick

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Asheville, NC cityscape

next stop after kennewick

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

$427

more each month than Kennewick ran you

Asheville costs more than Kennewick, 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

3% more expensive than Kennewick(vs $1,686/mo)

02state income tax

4.5%

$375/mo more in state tax than Kennewick

vs 0% in Kennewick

03after rent

$6,220/mo

$427 less than Kennewick

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

04a house here

$430k

2% cheaper than Kennewick

vs $441k in Kennewick

05metro size

417k

vs 314k in Kennewick

03 · the life

field notes, weather & such.

201

pleasant days a year, in asheville.

Kennewick only logs 199 pleasant days.

3400% more happening than in Kennewick.
on a typical month
·outdoorscore

66/100

11% lower than Kennewick

vs 74/100 in Kennewick

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

·walk score®

63/100

15% higher than Kennewick

vs 55/100 in Kennewick

Walk Score® methodology

·nonstops

8

0% fewer than Kennewick

vs 8 nonstops in Kennewick

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