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Asheville, NC cityscape

swapping out of st. louis

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

$311

the monthly cost of moving past St. Louis

You'd pay for Asheville. The question is whether the days are worth the difference.
landable, recorded on the asheville entry

02 · the money

a quick ledger.

01rent

$1,738/mo

23% more expensive than St. Louis(vs $1,411/mo)

02state income tax

4.5%

$17/mo less in state tax than St. Louis

vs 4.7% in St. Louis

03after rent

$6,220/mo

$311 less than St. Louis

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

04a house here

$430k

56% more expensive than St. Louis

vs $277k in St. Louis

05metro size

417k

vs 2.8M in St. Louis

03 · the life

field notes, weather & such.

201

pleasant days a year, in asheville.

St. Louis only manages 174 of those.

St. Louis hosts 2.3× more events.
on a typical month
·outdoorscore

66/100

3% lower than St. Louis

vs 68/100 in St. Louis

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

·walk score®

63/100

28% lower than St. Louis

vs 87/100 in St. Louis

Walk Score® methodology

·nonstops

8

87% fewer than St. Louis

vs 60 nonstops in St. Louis

04 · see also

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