Asheville One of the “Worst Places to Live”

Tribune Papers ^ | DECEMBER 25, 2021 | ABI COLE

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Asheville – In the past few years, national publications championed Asheville as one of the best vacation spots.

The area’s natural beauty, top rated cuisine and cultural experiences position the area as a top tourist spot. It was named #8 on Travel + Leisure’s “50 Best Places to Travel in 2020. The trusted vacation magazine said this about the city:

“With a small-town feel and big-city cultural cred, Asheville, North Carolina, is home to artists, musicians, and food and drink entrepreneurs who were making microbrews and serving farm-to-table meals long before such things were de rigueur,” Travel + Leisure wrote.

Unfortunate Ranking Yet, a recent National Public Radio Planet Money piece isn’t as kind to the city. A Dec. 14 article titled, “The best and worst places to live if you only care about money” found that the “Land of the Sky” fared poorly in a recent Stanford University study about livability and income. NPR featured Asheville on three damaging lists:

1. The five places with the lowest standard of living for college graduates. Asheville came in fifth, after Medford, Oregon; Provo, Utah; Salem, Oregon; and Olympia, Washington.

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And now, Asheville is importing an Islamic underclass of Afghan refugees, to compete with local North Carolinians for jobs, to drive wages down.

[Brian Griffin]

Rich folks like to eat out.

The restaurant industry generally pays poorly.

[leaning conservative]

I’m in the Asheville area right now to be with my mom who is in rehab. Why the h*lol is Asheville taking these people in when it is a complete mess with the homeless/drug population???? It is insane! These church “charities” need to be shut down.

[leaning conservative]

Hell

[RKBA Democrat]

Hipsters usually destroy nice places. Nothing new about that.

[Brian Griffin]

I live in a resort/retirement area of Florida.

An area such as mine tends to lack well-paid jobs for college graduates unless they are in real estate development, medicine, law or government.

[KevinB]

I was there a couple of years ago. It was infested by fags and smelly, stoned hippies. It might be your kind of place if you’re into drum circles. I don’t really have a desire to go back.

[hoosierham]

Refugee my a$$.

They’re foot soldiers of the Islamic cult.

Democrats and RINOS stupidly think they can be controlled.

[proxy_user]

All the best places for rich people to live are bad for poor people - everyone knows that. Go to the grocery store, and it’s full of artisanal goat cheese and organic beef, and the local IPA is $15 a six-pack.

[qaz123]

With a small-town feel and big-city cultural cred, Asheville, North Carolina, is home to artists, musicians, and food and drink entrepreneurs who were making microbrews and serving farm-to-table meals long before such things were de rigueur,” Travel + Leisure wrote.

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It’d be fun to ask the writers of Travel+Leisure what it’s like to live in Fantasy Land. That sentence should be something like this.....

With a small-town feel and big-city cultural cred, Asheville, North Carolina, is home to rich liberal, retirees from cities like Atlanta and Charlotte, who have the money to pay ridiculous prices for home; trust fund hippy/homeless kids whose parents don’t want them around so they pay the way for them to live in Asheville, where they don’t have to bathe and play hacky-sack all day; hipsters from nearby big cities, like Atlanta & Charlotte, who want to ‘escape to the mountains’ for a weekend to drink and take pictures of their micro-brew; a city, that is the outline for places like Boise-Kalispell-Marysville-Greenville-and other mountain towns being taken over and destroyed by liberals and hipsters.

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They didn’t have a large police force to begin with, since the city isn’t all that big and there isn’t a whole lot of crime. But, of course, they voted to defund their racist police department and saw a pretty significant loss of personnel.

And before that even happened, they banned the use of outdoor lighting for restaurants with patios, etc, because they felt like the ‘light pollution’ was destroying the environment.

And, much like places like Boise, Kalispell, Greenville, Chattanooga, Nashville...the cities are BLUE, but the surrounding area is as RED as it can get. And lets not forget, Asheville isn’t all that far from Murphy, NC. Murphy folks are none too fond of the government. It’s where they were looking for Eric Rudolph and were he was locked up by the rookie cop for dumpster diving. It’s been said that he got quite a bit of help from the people up there.

And now they got Afghani refugees in there......ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. Greenville, SC is about to get exponentially worse when the rich, WHITE, liberal migration begins.

[SaxxonWoods]

Popular tourist towns usually aren’t good places to live, duhh. They can be nice to visit though.

[qaz123]

Short term benefit...the feds give you money for refugees.

Problem is, that money runs out and the locals have to start picking up the tab. One of the dirty little secrets about refugee resettlement.

[CatHerd]

It was a clean, quaint little conservative mountain town back in the 1980s, but had already started to attract New Agers. Soon enough, the Rainbow Family gatherings there, then old hippies started flocking there ... now it’s full of hipster and wokester types. Quite a different place today. Sad.

[MinorityRepublican]

It’s expensive. But if you really want to work in Asheville, you can make it work by commuting. You can live cheaply outside of Asheville. The town has nice views. Good restaurants. Excellent brews. Liberals are there but you can just ignore them.

[qaz123]

But, Asheville isn’t necessarily a tourist town. The offices for the Western District of North Carolina are there. The area does get the tourist dollars in the fall when the leaves change, but it’s a city.

One destroyed by liberals transplants and the list for cities destroyed by liberals is quite lengthy, as well all know.

[ryderann]

I live 25 miles from Asheville, but have to go there once a year to see my doctor. I don’t do anything else while I’m there...just turn around and get the heck out of the town.

[perfect_rovian_storm]

Asheville is a place I never really got. Greenville is right down the road and offers far more. Asheville seems more like an idea that someone had that didn’t pan out than a real destination. There are some decent restaurants, but nothing that I can’t live without. I do like a lot of things in the immediate area like the Omni, but the amount it costs seems excessive and that nags at me and ruins my time. And how many times can one go to the Biltmore?

[Monterrosa-24]

In 1978, I worked for Senator Jesse Helms first reelection campaign. I was the Fieldman for Asheville and the surrounding counties. I lived in the home of the County Coordinator for the campaign. It was on Hilltop Drive in the very nice Biltmore Forest part of town. Back then it was as nice as a little city could be.

[martin_fierro]

Asheville topped this list, followed by San Diego, the entire state of California;

[No name given]

Obviously the lefties ruin everything they touch.