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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

$368

pricier each month than Tulsa

Asheville runs a little pricier than Tulsa. 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

29% more expensive than Tulsa(vs $1,350/mo)

02state income tax

4.5%

$21/mo less in state tax than Tulsa

vs 4.75% in Tulsa

03after rent

$6,220/mo

$368 less than Tulsa

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

04a house here

$430k

70% more expensive than Tulsa

vs $253k in Tulsa

05metro size

417k

vs 1.0M in Tulsa

03 · the life

field notes, weather & such.

201

pleasant days a year, in asheville.

Tulsa barely cracks 163 pleasant ones.

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

66/100

35% higher than Tulsa

vs 49/100 in Tulsa

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

·walk score®

63/100

18% lower than Tulsa

vs 77/100 in Tulsa

Walk Score® methodology

·nonstops

8

56% fewer than Tulsa

vs 18 nonstops in Tulsa

04 · see also

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