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Thank heavens Asheville has diversity, including artists, musicians, designers, hippies, yuppies, rich and poor. It's sad that there are homeless people in a country so rich, but yes, even they add to the diversity.
Maybe I have a different definition of the term "hippie" but my question is, what's wrong with hippies? People posting here refer to "hippies" as you would "crack addicts" or "child molestors". I don't know any "hippies" who attack or otherwise bother people so that you would not feel safe. In fact, I'd feel safer with pot smoking hippies than gun toting, whiskey swilling, rednecks or self righteous, "tell-everyone-what-to-do" christians who live in anal-retentive white bread communities.
Thank heavens Asheville has diversity, including artists, musicians, designers, hippies, yuppies, rich and poor. It's sad that there are homeless people in a country so rich, but yes, even they add to the diversity.
Cancer adds diversity to health, but doesn't mean it is desirable
Cancer adds diversity to health, but doesn't mean it is desirable
Wow! What a hyperbolic analogy...perhaps you should move someplace new and start a commune of 1. Perhaps there you will find the utopia you seek. I would guess Asheville will never again meet your standards again. No sense being as unhappy with someplace as you seem to be. I guess I just don't understand. When I've tired of someplace I've lived, I simply moved somewhere I desired more. I'm sure I'll reach a point where I'll feel that way about Asheville as well. When that happens I've already got ideas where I'll explore next. Life's too short to be unhappy with where you live IMO...Just my .02...
Wow! What a hyperbolic analogy...perhaps you should move someplace new and start a commune of 1. Perhaps there you will find the utopia you seek. I would guess Asheville will never again meet your standards again. No sense being as unhappy with someplace as you seem to be. I guess I just don't understand. When I've tired of someplace I've lived, I simply moved somewhere I desired more. I'm sure I'll reach a point where I'll feel that way about Asheville as well. When that happens I've already got ideas where I'll explore next. Life's too short to be unhappy with where you live IMO...Just my .02...
So your response is to personally attack me? Yea whatever but thanks for validating my point.
Hey Peter, he tossed that bait out there and you grabbed it like a hungry shark. Now is the time to block his posts so he won't reel you in any further--Larry
So your response is to personally attack me? Yea whatever but thanks for validating my point.
I would hardly call that an attack. I apologize if it came off that way. I realize everyone is entitled to their own opinions. I just find it odd that you would subject yourself to living somewhere you seem so disenchanted with.
Asheville is a really beautiful place to VISIT, but it's really difficult to live here unless you have a lot of money and resources. The jobs are few and far between, I should know I have been unemployed for a year and a half and actually moved here for the very job I lost (took an $8000 paycut too). I didn't do my research well before moving here. I just liked the vibe and went on intuition. It's really expensive for such a small city and as I said jobs are hard to find and don't pay well or match the cost of living. Alot of landlords here are shady too if your thinking of renting.
I am not bashing the place at all, I just wish I had done more research in the event that I lost my job and I did.
Cancer adds diversity to health, but doesn't mean it is desirable
LOL, reading your posts have more comical than educational. I just hope that I'm not confronted with too many people that hold your attitude about people who differ from you when we move there
Otherwise, I think we'll end up loners, and that would not be fun.
Asheville is a really beautiful place to VISIT, but it's really difficult to live here unless you have a lot of money and resources. The jobs are few and far between, I should know I have been unemployed for a year and a half and actually moved here for the very job I lost (took an $8000 paycut too). I didn't do my research well before moving here. I just liked the vibe and went on intuition. It's really expensive for such a small city and as I said jobs are hard to find and don't pay well or match the cost of living. Alot of landlords here are shady too if your thinking of renting.
I am not bashing the place at all, I just wish I had done more research in the event that I lost my job and I did.
Maybe it's because I'm coming there from SW Florida, I don't know, but I've done a year of research, with multiple visits, and I've found that living inside the city of Asheville to be a bit more expensive, like right down town, but other than that, the same cheap renting alternatives exist there as here. As for dining, we've found the prices to be the same as well. Overall, we've actually found that living within 20 minutes of Asheville to be the same or cheaper than the armpit I've lived in for over 30 years.
True, if you are coming from the NE maybe where pay is generally higher, then a pay cut is in order, but your living expenses should be as well.
Again, that's if you can't bring yourself to reside outside of downtown, and not eat only at little ritzy diners downtown.
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Why are people so afraid of diversity?
but thanks for validating my point.
