Asheville ultra lib and huge collection of butches but offers a lot
Western NC is a big swath
Cashiers and Highlands in the sw corner are pricey but southern
Grandfather and Banner Elk and Linville ridge area in the nw used to be south Florida heavily Jewish summer retreat but it’s changed of late and more Carolina folks
Year round there is rough in winter up high....above 3500 feet it’s snowy and quite cold for that latitude
We had a mountaintop home at Hound Ears at 4900 ft and it snowed a lot.....Grandfather mt at about 6000 feet gets really cold sub zero weather ...neg 32 is the record at the weather station at 5300 foot and windy windy
The rural parts of western NC are in places very sparse
You could try Cocke county Tn and have Asheville as go to base for stuff 30-40 miles away
It’s beautiful
There is a town on old 25 between Newport TN and Asheville NC called Hot Springs NC
BEAUTIFUL AREA
Del Rio TN right across the state line and Mars Hill which is ok is between there and Asheville
Good luck
I don’t mind cold & a little snow...in fact I prefer it over hot. That’s a big reason I was looking in the west/mountain areas - to get away from the heat.
“Asheville ultra lib and huge collection of butches but offers a lot”
A lot of traffic. It’s become more yuppiefied recently. I was there last year and didn’t see as much of the hippy stuff. I guess it got too expensive.
Johnson City TN is basically Boone west and TN doesn’t have state income tax. Banner Elk is nice.