$100k salary, packing up from San Luis Obispo

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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

$1,757

below San Luis Obispo's monthly cost

Move to Asheville and the monthly math gets easier. San Luis Obispo's rent is the headline; Asheville's is a footnote.
landable, recorded on the asheville entry

02 · the money

a quick ledger.

01rent

$1,738/mo

44% cheaper than San Luis Obispo(vs $3,095/mo)

02state income tax

4.5%

$400/mo less in state tax than San Luis Obispo

vs 9.3% in San Luis Obispo

03after rent

$6,220/mo

$1,757 more than San Luis Obispo

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

04a house here

$430k

54% cheaper than San Luis Obispo

vs $934k in San Luis Obispo

05metro size

417k

vs 282k in San Luis Obispo

03 · the life

field notes, weather & such.

201

pleasant days a year, in asheville.

San Luis Obispo gets 303 pleasant days a year, so you'd be trading some sunshine.

3.5× the events of San Luis Obispo, and the calendar shows it.
on a typical month
·outdoorscore

66/100

3% lower than San Luis Obispo

vs 68/100 in San Luis Obispo

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

·walk score®

63/100

36% lower than San Luis Obispo

vs 98/100 in San Luis Obispo

Walk Score® methodology

·nonstops

8

167% more than San Luis Obispo

vs 3 nonstops in San Luis Obispo

04 · see also

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