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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

$395

more each month than Mobile ran you

Asheville runs a little pricier than Mobile. 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

33% more expensive than Mobile(vs $1,302/mo)

02state income tax

4.5%

$42/mo less in state tax than Mobile

vs 5% in Mobile

03after rent

$6,220/mo

$395 less than Mobile

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

04a house here

$430k

122% more expensive than Mobile

vs $194k in Mobile

05metro size

417k

vs 412k in Mobile

03 · the life

field notes, weather & such.

201

pleasant days a year, in asheville.

Mobile edges ahead with 225 pleasant days.

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

66/100

12% higher than Mobile

vs 59/100 in Mobile

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

·walk score®

63/100

9% lower than Mobile

vs 69/100 in Mobile

Walk Score® methodology

·nonstops

8

60% more than Mobile

vs 5 nonstops in Mobile

04 · see also

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