Could you provide your Asheville insights to this FReeper?
Well, as I posted on another thread earlier today:
And by the way, Asheville is a blight and a cancer on the most beautiful part of North Carolina. It's a little slice of Moonbat Central in the heart of the mountains...a beautiful, beautiful town overrun with granola-crunching Birkenstock-wearing alternative-lifestyle hippies, and a smattering of limo liberals that moved down there from the big city and want to bring all the worst parts with them.
Asheville is a living advertisement for the neutron bomb. Clean out the population, but save the town so real North Carolinians can repopulate it later.
FReepers will not steer you wrong. Western and west central North Carolina is a wonderful place. But DO NOT move to Asheville. It is a blue zit on a red state. It's not even the politics, really...the people that have taken the area over aren't just liberal, they really are moonbats. Crystal-wearing, Gaia-worshipping, "peace-and-justice" barking moonbats. Truly, it's turned into Berserkely or San Cramcrisco East. And while it's a small city, and still has a very high quality of life and a lot to recommend it, I cringe to think about what's going to happen when the moonbats run the city into the ground, like they always do with all cities they take over.
The Blowing Rock/Boone area up in the northwest part is amazingly beautiful, but not very big so if you're expecting big-city comforts, they aren't found there. Hickory is nice, but the economy in that area is very dependent on furniture manufacturing--getting squeezed out by foreign competition--and supposedly it's also being overrun with illegal aliens.
If you don't mind looking a tiny bit further afield from Asheville, there's always the VA/TN Tri-Cities (Bristol/Johnson City/Kingsport) or Greenville/Spartanburg, SC. You could even range as far north as Roanoke or the Shenendoah Valley in Virginia and still be less than a day's drive from Asheville and the Smokies.
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