Popular tourist towns usually aren’t good places to live, duhh. They can be nice to visit though.
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.
My sister moved back to where my mom was from which over the years has become a very attractive tourist Mecca up on the Great Lakes and in the middle of winter place is dead in the summertime it comes back to life.
It’s kind of weird in the summer it’s gotten to where the locals can’t even afford to have any summertime activities cuz they’re all way too expensive nowadays.