$100k salary, packing up from San Antonio

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Asheville, NC cityscape

swapping out of san antonio

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

$719

the monthly premium over San Antonio

Asheville runs a little pricier than San Antonio. 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

25% more expensive than San Antonio(vs $1,394/mo)

02state income tax

4.5%

$375/mo more in state tax than San Antonio

vs 0% in San Antonio

03after rent

$6,220/mo

$719 less than San Antonio

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

04a house here

$430k

53% more expensive than San Antonio

vs $280k in San Antonio

05metro size

417k

vs 2.7M in San Antonio

03 · the life

field notes, weather & such.

201

pleasant days a year, in asheville.

San Antonio barely cracks 167 pleasant ones.

69% fewer events than San Antonio. The pace eases up.
on a typical month
·outdoorscore

66/100

35% higher than San Antonio

vs 49/100 in San Antonio

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

·walk score®

63/100

35% lower than San Antonio

vs 97/100 in San Antonio

Walk Score® methodology

·nonstops

8

77% fewer than San Antonio

vs 35 nonstops in San Antonio

04 · see also

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