Posted on 08/19/2016 8:30:58 AM PDT by nuconvert
One hears that the Asheville area in general has become pretty artsy-fartsy.
Not really...Boone is not very far from Johnson City, TN...Bristol, TN...
It’s also only a little over an hour from Asheville...
Daughter received her Masters from Appy State there in Boone and the city has plenty of things to ...
Move a little further west to Tennessee and avoid paying state income taxes. We currently have an income tax on investment income but a law was passed to phase it out in the next few years.
Granite Falls & Morganton have been areas I’ve checked out online as is Rutherfordton.
Yes, I’ll need to make a couple of trips to the area befoe buying.
I'll second that...it's a quick and scenic ride over the mountains on I-26 from East Tennessee. You can enjoy the shopping, restaurants and scenery around Asheville, and when the hippies/progressives finally get on your nerves (takes about two or three hours); you can get back on I-26 and enjoy the scenic ride back home.
Boone is a nice area but it is Appalachian State which is located there.
The Catamounts are South West of Asheville
Sorry, but Appalachian State is in Boone ...
Western Carolina is in Cullowhee...
I always got those mixed up. You are right, of course.
Oh, yeah...it does rain a hell of a lot more on the NC side of the mountains. It can be a sunny day in East TN but you can see the Nolichucky River rise noticeably when it storms on the NC side of the mountains.
Much better way of putting it than I did. I'm a Yankee, no denying it, but FWIW, I have more respect for most southerners than I do for most Yankees. I've got some rebel baked into me, somehow, and not my parent's preference either.
I stick to my point though, there is a (deserved) bias, maybe distrust of Yankees, among genuine southerners.
-- Why does no one retire to Yankee areas? --
It's cold and snowy, and (glaring generality looming) old people can't take it.
Flood risk is variable by moving a few miles one way or the other. There is plenty of elevated real estate with zero flood risk.
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Michigan is a funky state! Very diverse. Great state. In fact, it's about where my Yankee heritage hails from. Formative years in Holland, the Goldwater conservative part of the state. Worked half a decade, as a young adult, in Marshall. I swear, Michigan is the redneck capital of the world. Get 50 miles north of Lansing (and away from the tourists), and it is yet another world. Never been to the UP, but have a pretty good idea that the natives are resourceful, self reliant, serious and reverent enough, but not to a tee. Lumber and mining are no-nonsense, honest work.
Boone is hoppin. Not that this makes it hoppin, but I saw Papa John Creech play there, back in the day. And you are dead on, Tri-cities is nearby. Decent airport, easy drive from that side of the mountains to Knoxville.
Every one of my Greats and GGreats fought for the Confederacy except one and he was a Methodist Circuit Rider.
They were with the First, Sixth and Eighth, Florida’s and 18th Alabama. The preacher spent most of the war at the Doctortown Mission near modern day Jesup Georgia. There was a large Confederate camp there. They were protecting the railroad trestle there.
That is the only place which withstood Sherman’s attacks. He sent forces to capture it three different times and they were beaten back each time.
One of the veterans is buried in a cemetery on Eglin AFB. and you can only visit it when accompanied by two officers. To their credit, the Air Force keeps it up very well.
My better commercial airline story is "Pocahontas Airlines" in Iowa. 7 pax, 6 seats, "you're small, mind riding with the luggage?" Des Moines to Spencer.
Why are garages so uncommon in NC? I would think people would want to keep out of the rain?
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Between the two Carolina, it seems SC would be a better Freeper fit.
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