I moved to Asheville area in 1976, from Fla (I am known to locals as a "half back", born up north, raised in Fla, moved half way back)
and figured out then this was where I wanted to retire.
Weather keeps getting better (so far so good, love global warming)
Asheville is a putrid little leftist cesspool, I try to avoid it, but the rest of Western NC is great. Very little crime outside of the plantation.
Property taxes, Ok, if you get about ten miles outside of Asheville, house prices not to bad.
A decent hosp (I worked there for over 20 years, and still do some part time at a back clinic office) but HCA Mission is still a little woke. Staff cuts leads to patient dissatisfaction.
Lots of doctors in community though. A couple of tech schools, one UNC college.
So, Western NC, good, Eastern Tenn also good (I am remodeling at the house on Lake Douglas) We may be getting our first black Gov for NC (leftist vermin hate him, he is a repub) so NC looking more like a free state, and Tenn is a free state with a couple of democrat cesspools.
Asheville nice and central. 4 hours to Atlanta. 5 hours to Charleston, 6 hours to Savannah, 8 hours to Gulf Coast. We have a regional airport, with bigger ones at Knoxville and Charlotte (both about 3 hours away. A few play houses (I used to do Shakespeare with the Montford Park Players years ago. Big playhouse in Flat Rock.
Biltmore House in Asheville. Blue Ridge Parkway. Smokey Mtns. Woohoo!
Minutes from the mountains. And, there is wild ginseng growing all over the place here.
Thank you I tell my wife we have to go there to see where to live if we want to move there eventually. We have a place on a lake in NH which is nice but the state has changed a lot and NH is surrounded by leftest wackoes in Mass., Vermont and Maine. The weathers tough also, yesterday was a great example snow ice a real shit storm, but still beautiful there. https://share.icloud.com/photos/065QLNbx_vpaw0FqZ7hvOuBlQ
flee while you can.
I moved to Asheville area in 1976, from Fla (I am known to locals as a "half back", born up north, raised in Fla, moved half way back)
and figured out then this was where I wanted to retire.
Weather keeps getting better (so far so good, love global warming)
Asheville is a putrid little leftist cesspool, I try to avoid it, but the rest of Western NC is great. Very little crime outside of the plantation.
Property taxes, Ok, if you get about ten miles outside of Asheville, house prices not to bad.
A decent hosp (I worked there for over 20 years, and still do some part time at a back clinic office) but HCA Mission is still a little woke. Staff cuts leads to patient dissatisfaction.
Lots of doctors in community though. A couple of tech schools, one UNC college.
So, Western NC, good, Eastern Tenn also good (I am remodeling at the house on Lake Douglas) We may be getting our first black Gov for NC (leftist vermin hate him, he is a repub) so NC looking more like a free state, and Tenn is a free state with a couple of democrat cesspools.
Asheville nice and central. 4 hours to Atlanta. 5 hours to Charleston, 6 hours to Savannah, 8 hours to Gulf Coast. We have a regional airport, with bigger ones at Knoxville and Charlotte (both about 3 hours away. A few play houses (I used to do Shakespeare with the Montford Park Players years ago. Big playhouse in Flat Rock.
Biltmore House in Asheville. Blue Ridge Parkway. Smokey Mtns. Woohoo!
Minutes from the mountains. And, there is wild ginseng growing all over the place here.
Thank you I tell my wife we have to go there to see where to live if we want to move there eventually. We have a place on a lake in NH which is nice but the state has changed a lot and NH is surrounded by leftest wackoes in Mass., Vermont and Maine. The weathers tough also, yesterday was a great example snow ice a real shit storm, but still beautiful there. https://share.icloud.com/photos/065QLNbx_vpaw0FqZ7hvOuBlQ