Moving To NC and need some insight on where to live

[TJLH]

I am familiarizing myself to the area too and from an outsider looking in so far, I liked Asheville and Greenville for a larger city. Hendersonville is a good mid-sized town. Marshall/Mars Hill, Black Mountain, and Brevard are quaint towns, the first two of which are closer to Asheville. Brevard is in between Asheville and Greenville and in the mountains.
Hope that helps some!

[PeaceOut001]

Originally Posted by Salavaur

Charlotte is the best place to live in NC

It is larger than Asheville and has a huge airport. In Asheville, I've heard jokes (clean and nice) over the loudspeakers. Asheville has a coal plant for power (we lived 15 miles from Indian Point nuclear power plant) in NY. Charlotte's water is fed from their upstream nuclear power plant. They say it's clean but we didn't trust it and it's hot as heck there. Can't win them all.

We had to leave NYS due to high costs of living. While housing prices are okay here, you have to be very careful about where you look. The confederate flag pops up in strange places. That bothers us. But there are a lot of lovely developments (we're in one) for families.

We wanted a sub-NYC culture (arts, theater, restaurants) with nice people and found all that here.
But apartments are going up en masse, so changes will occur often haphazardly. The infrastructure
was not set up for the kind of growth the city seems to expect. Because of the influx, we're thinking about moving again for the last time to a more established area.

You can't beat being surrounded by the Blue Ridge Mountains and the Appalachian Trail (that we used to walk outside of NYS).

Good luck.