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my husband and i are contemplating a move to asheville following his sudden layoff a few weeks ago. we reside in philadelphia, previously chicago, and are ready to embrace life away from a big city. we're both investigating the job landscape in a respective areas of practice...john is an architect and i'm a freelance public/media relations specialist and writer. would be thrilled to connect with anyone in those areas. thank you for your consideration.
I can’t speak for the field of architecture (I suspect the prospects are bleak), but your best bet in PR is to remain freelance and try to secure work outside of Asheville. My wife is in PR and one of our good friends is in marketing. Both are self-employed. Our friend finds some marketing work in the area, but talks about how mind numbing the work is here. By that she means it is years behind that which someone from a larger market is accustomed.
As for PR, my wife does no work for clients in Asheville and does not see it worth pursuing. All of her clients are elsewhere. There is a PR firm or two in town and she has talked to them, but more or less found them to be what our friend described in the marketing field. I suspect if she had to find clients in the area she’d make about 20-percent of what she does with her current clients.
The moral of the story for people looking to move here remains the same and probably will for some time to come. If you are not in health care, financially set or content working in the tourism industry, bring your own job.
I can’t speak for the field of architecture (I suspect the prospects are bleak) and probably will for some time to come. If you are not in health care, financially set or content working in the tourism industry, bring your own job.
I agree ^^^ - we had a second home in Asheville for a few years (sold it last year) with the idea that we would gradually move up there. My DH is an architect and there were NO jobs to be had there, and this was in the "boom" times. Asheville is a beautiful little city, but very few "real" jobs there, and even last year (the last time I saw Asheville) I saw that even more of our favorite downtown businesses had closed. So bottom line, we decided to stay right here in Florida where my husband still has a pretty good job. We relocated to Sarasota (which we love) which has a lot of natural beauty like Asheville does, only with beaches instead of mountains.
To live in Asheville one needs to either have an independent source of income, be retired, entrepeneur, or telecommute. I have heard even health care jobs are becoming scarce.
do you live in CC philly? We moved out of Fishtown last year and the only thing we miss from philly is the ability to walk everywhere and the El. Jobs though, like everyone else has said, are few and far between. I am in the IT field, but luckily, telecommute.
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