$100k salary, packing up from Lubbock

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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

$729

the monthly cost of moving past Lubbock

Asheville costs meaningfully more. Whether it earns that back in the day-to-day is the actual question.
landable, recorded on the asheville entry

02 · the money

a quick ledger.

01rent

$1,738/mo

26% more expensive than Lubbock(vs $1,384/mo)

02state income tax

4.5%

$375/mo more in state tax than Lubbock

vs 0% in Lubbock

03after rent

$6,220/mo

$729 less than Lubbock

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

04a house here

$430k

104% more expensive than Lubbock

vs $211k in Lubbock

05metro size

417k

vs 360k in Lubbock

03 · the life

field notes, weather & such.

201

pleasant days a year, in asheville.

Lubbock keeps to 186 pleasant days a year.

4.4× the events of Lubbock, and the calendar shows it.
on a typical month
·outdoorscore

66/100

1220% higher than Lubbock

vs 5/100 in Lubbock

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

·walk score®

63/100

9% lower than Lubbock

vs 69/100 in Lubbock

Walk Score® methodology

·nonstops

8

14% more than Lubbock

vs 7 nonstops in Lubbock

04 · see also

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