Asheville doesn't have any industry except boutiques and arts and crafts and vegan cafes. Asheville is where trust fund babies go when daddy says they have to find a job.
Asheville is farther from Mayberry than the earth is from the moon.
Excellent description of Asheville!
Sadly, too true.
Absolutely true-— ever since the Vanderbilts destroyed the top of one mountain and bought up all the local mtn people’s property for the “estate”. Put a railroad in just to haul construction supplies up to “Biltmore”... the house that Vander...built. And then the family just...dissolved along with the Astors.
What family remains lives in the top floor of Biltmore and tours/rents the bottom part and has a winery— and extensive high end mtn development homes— very high end. Not a whole lot to do with ... REAL NC. imho.