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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

$593

more each month than Spokane ran you

Asheville runs a little pricier than Spokane. 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

14% more expensive than Spokane(vs $1,520/mo)

02state income tax

4.5%

$375/mo more in state tax than Spokane

vs 0% in Spokane

03after rent

$6,220/mo

$593 less than Spokane

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

04a house here

$430k

2% more expensive than Spokane

vs $420k in Spokane

05metro size

417k

vs 600k in Spokane

03 · the life

field notes, weather & such.

201

pleasant days a year, in asheville.

Spokane barely cracks 164 pleasant ones.

About as much going on as in Spokane.
on a typical month
·outdoorscore

66/100

19% lower than Spokane

vs 81/100 in Spokane

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

·walk score®

63/100

31% lower than Spokane

vs 91/100 in Spokane

Walk Score® methodology

·nonstops

8

20% fewer than Spokane

vs 10 nonstops in Spokane

04 · see also

neighbors of asheville on the map of tradeoffs:

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