Posted on 02/05/2022 7:46:20 AM PST by The_Media_never_lie
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.
(Excerpt) Read more at tribpapers.com ...
For instance there was a road rage incident 9 blocks from a police substation between a black motorist and a black pedestrian. The police did not respond within 10 minutes.
Yes I had a work assignment in Asheville about 8years ago.
Pretty area. My housing was in Black Mountain though. Very nice.
How it stacks up with Gatlinburg Tennessee?
And, I think many of the supporters are either full-tilt in agreement with it, because they’re part of the operation
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That’s an interesting observation. The system works for its supporters but at some point it will run out of other peoples’ money. That’s when things will get really interesting.
The fact that our ballooning debt has gone past $30 trillion and nobody cares about it speaks volumes about the state of the country today. Apathy, complacency and ignorance are ruling the day — for the moment.
Eventually the system that is being propped up by unchecked spending, deceit and corruption WILL break down under its own weight IMO. When it does most Americans will face a very different reality and likely have a tough time adjusting to the inevitable hardships that follow.
Will this lead to positive change? Who knows?
Back then (1980s) here used to be elderly couples and lots of elderly windows who spent summers in Asheville/Black Mountain, winters in Florida or the South Carolina coast (old-time tradition going back to Antebellum days for those who could afford it). And there were a few of their trustafarian kids and grandkids who moved in as they died off. Plus the grifters attracted to the smell of money exuded by the widows and trustafarians.
There had been various church retreat centers and church camps of various denominations around Black Mountain for decades. Then the New Agers started up with theirs in the 80s (Circle of Light, etc.). Crystal shops and Wiccan bookstores began opening in Asheville. Then came the hippy-dippy-trippy Rainbow nutters and it all seemed to snowball from there. Retiring has-been hippies flocked in, followed by younger and younger hipster types and trustafarians.
Outside Asheville, in communities like Leicester (pronounced Lester), it was pretty much all original mountain families and they spoke Tarheel (pronounced “Tore-heel”) and some were still living in Black Mountain. I grew up in East Tennessee and was used to “hillbilly” accents, but even I had trouble understanding them sometimes.
One time my Dad was visiting and we bought steaks at my regular grocery store in Black Mountain. The checkout clerk asked me “Yaint a-gonna kick out on us, ere ye?” I normally bought more affordable fare, so my first reaction was she must think I’m dying (kicking out) and this is meant to be my Last Meal. Then I figured out she was saying “You aren’t going to cook out on us, are you?”
Another time, a lady was giving me directions. “Ye’ll see ye a face fur on ye right at the top of the hill...”.
“Face fur?”
“Yibiddy! You know the face fur! Everbiddy knows the face fur!”
Well, as I neared the top of the hill, there stood a Fast Fare (local gas/convenience store chain) on the right.
I used to muse that the area would be the perfect place for refugee resettlement, as it was possible to get along knowing only one word: Yibiddy (yeah, buddy). You could safely use “yibiddy” in response to practically anything anyone said to you in regular social interaction:
“Hey thar!”
“Yibiddy!” (Back atcha, friend!)
“How’s it going?”
“Yibiddy!” (Great!)
“Nice weather today, ain’t it?”
“Yibiddy” (Sure is!)
“See ye later!”
“Yibiddy!” (You betcha!)
Now it appears my goofy idea has come true!
Asheville has a most wonderful craft beer industry leading its revitalization.
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There was always an alternative feel, a "Progressive" crowd, and eclectic street people. It was tolerable but never "good". Then came along COVID and the BLM madness.
Now we almost never go there. The police are more "tolerant" (and fewer) than ever. Asheville politicians are hopeless Leftists. The homeless and street people are worse than ever. The city is mimicking San Fransicko by not prosecuting "minor" crimes such as theft less than $950. I could go on...
No thanks. We can eat in nice restaurants nearer home and not risk our car windows and rummaging of our belongings. The city (and Buncombe County) is also big on COVID mandates, masking, and other Nazi rules. We take our money and business elsewhere.
LOL...even people that live in rural NC/TN near Asheville won’t go near that dump...when we want to see freaks; we’ll go to the carnival.
I went to high school in Asheville in the mid to late 80s. Back then it was 90% appalachia and 10% artsy fartsy. Now those percentages are reversed. Yes, it clearly has more money. Yes, the restaurants and microbrews are nice. Everything else is a million times worse. Its not the overflow from Charlotte and Atlanta as one poster said earlier. Its mostly Leftist Yankees. They of course brought their disgusting Leftist politics with them. They’ve invaded and swamped Asheville. Far too damn many Leftist Yankees are flooding into Charlotte where I live now.
“These church “charities” need to be shut down.”
Follow the huge amounts of money back to the gov’t.
School boards may drive parents to send their children to private schools. That will open up space for the illegals.
In Asheville? Wow
Well, when you have a small department to begin with and lose 40+ cops because you voted to defund it, these things will happen.
I sometimes wish all the libtards, homos,transgenders, and Hollywood elites would just move to a forsaken state and infect and fornicate with eachother. Leave the rest of the country for God-fearing patriotic, hard wooAmericans!
We are in Asheville quite frequently. It is rapidly becoming the Portland or San Francisco of the east coast…
Spot on. We were in Mars Hill this morning, which is in Madison County. Very few masks anywhere. Just SEVEN miles to the south, in Buncombe county, masks everywhere, although there was a small percentage of people going without. LOL at one store which rigidly enforced the wearing of the sacred mask, whereas another grocer right across the street had plenty of unmasked customers. An amazing virus...knows that one side of the street is more at risk than the other, and also knows to advance no further to the north than the county line. SMH at these suburban loons.
NO mask = probably independent-minded mountain folk. Mask = gelded suburban minions of the CCP.
Boy you got that right, I’m seeing the prices of condos and houses start to really go up. The kids that grew up in a 25 mile radius from here are not making the money that the engineers are making. The great majority of Engineers here are all from northern states. And that means that they’re expecting more money and they’re also being paid more money by the corporation sound here it’s as if they’re intentionally creating a permanent middle class. The ones that have the degrees that moved here in the last 10 years are going to be the ruling class for these people. It’s a shame, they should have educated these kids and set them to college before they move the companies in. They also need to reopen all the trade school and teach these kids CMC and basic Machining and Miller like work to accommodate the industry’s down here. There’s plenty of land to grow on, there is not a lot of highway or good back roads to get to anywhere, but there’s plenty of room to grow, they just need to encourage the locals to be better educated so that they don’t need all the Yankees to come down here and take over their jobs.
I am medically retired now and I spend my free time witnessing downtown to the homeless into people on the streets and handing out Bibles and Etc. The Hispanics I need down here are all family-oriented people, the dress nice and they are well-behaved. I can’t say the same for all the Section 8 people and all the homeless white guys that are nothing more than meth heads and probably transplants from Asheville or some other place because of the abundance of the social welfare assistance from the food banks. The homeless shelters down here have a waiting list of months if you want to get into a long-term living situation and if you want to get into a bible-based program, there’s only one as far as I know in town. If you had $1000000 and you wanted to create a homeless shelter with a church inside, Greenville could use it but until these people learn to change their own lives it’s not going to change the homeless situation at all.
“Yibiddy!”
We're originally damyankees but love the South and most Southerners. We certainly didn't bring "our" politics with us. Being from the rural North, we think much more like Southerners. We detest the Liberal locusts who ruined our culture, cities, and politics up there and are now fleeing the mess they made to ruin our culture, cities, and politics again. That is a main reason we moved here - to get away from "them". The problem is, "they" are like abusive boyfriends. "They" will simply not be content and stay away.
It is a sad commentary all over the country. It boils down to "values" and "morals". Evil tends to drive out good and that happens everywhere, unfortunately.
Amen
They enable the armies of the night of drug addict zombie predators folks call euphemistically homeless
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