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.
Hell
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.
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.
Am an NC native - when I was growing up, Asheville was a gem in our state and everyone wanted to go visit.
Now, it is the coldsore of our state. People there are in denial about how crappy it really is. They have glossed over the oozing pustule with a coat of paint but it is still festering below, just waiting to erupt in a puss filled coldsore.
I feel for the natives. They are not responsible for this. Same with other mountain towns taken over by northerners and those with money to throw around.
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.
“These church “charities” need to be shut down.”
Follow the huge amounts of money back to the gov’t.
Amen
They enable the armies of the night of drug addict zombie predators folks call euphemistically homeless