$100k a year, no longer in Little Rock

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Asheville, NC cityscape

swapping out of little rock

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

$538

more expensive each month than Little Rock

Asheville runs a little pricier than Little Rock. 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

44% more expensive than Little Rock(vs $1,209/mo)

02state income tax

4.5%

$8/mo more in state tax than Little Rock

vs 4.4% in Little Rock

03after rent

$6,220/mo

$538 less than Little Rock

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

04a house here

$430k

89% more expensive than Little Rock

vs $228k in Little Rock

05metro size

417k

vs 765k in Little Rock

03 · the life

field notes, weather & such.

201

pleasant days a year, in asheville.

Little Rock barely cracks 163 pleasant ones.

169% more happening than in Little Rock.
on a typical month
·outdoorscore

66/100

22% higher than Little Rock

vs 54/100 in Little Rock

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

·walk score®

63/100

29% higher than Little Rock

vs 49/100 in Little Rock

Walk Score® methodology

·nonstops

8

53% fewer than Little Rock

vs 17 nonstops in Little Rock

04 · see also

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