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It's all relative, you know. To someone from Bugtussle, Asheville would be quite large and very sophisticated. To someone from Paris, not so much.
I agree.
Downtown is dense so it gives Asheville a nice little-big city vibe. Then there's the tourist aspect and snowbirds which ups the population a good part of the year.
Aside from that, and in my personal experience, I have found most natives to possess a sort of "tunnel vision" when it comes to wordliness, or a worldly openness to current events/other's views. Throw in the Baptist followers that eat/sleep/breath/verbally express their 'values' outside of church, the climate can be quite thick with naivety at times.
Small, yes - but unsophisticated?? The first people I met in Madison County - my Realtor who graduated from Cornell - my neighbor, who is working on her 6th novel - a retired Army officer who was the first lawyer to defend someone being tried under the Patriot Act - a woman who worked for a major fashion designer and traveled the world - doesn't sound unsophisticated does it?
Small, yes - but unsophisticated?? The first people I met in Madison County - my Realtor who graduated from Cornell - my neighbor, who is working on her 6th novel - a retired Army officer who was the first lawyer to defend someone being tried under the Patriot Act - a woman who worked for a major fashion designer and traveled the world - doesn't sound unsophisticated does it?
Basically there are a lot of retirees down here with lots of degrees and other life experience--heck I have a PhD too. You need to take a look at the NC Center for Creative Retirement at UNC--attracts a lot of retirees here. So Asheville has something of an expatriate community that increases the level of sophistication quite a bit. This along with the tourist industry in turn has run the cost of living up enough that the locals are spread pretty thin inside the city of Asheville and the nearby communities in Buncombe County. If you drive out of town and start to see McCain/Palin bumper stickers you can be pretty sure that you've stumbled out into the land of Beck bobbleheads
If you drive out of town and start to see McCain/Palin bumper stickers you can be pretty sure that you've stumbled out into the land of Beck bobbleheads
Heck, I live amongst this madness right here in a nice area of east Asheville.
If you drive out of town and start to see McCain/Palin bumper stickers you can be pretty sure that you've stumbled out into the land of Beck bobbleheads
Wow. Talk about a perfect example of unsophisticated and intolerant.
To answer the OP. Yes, there are many sophisticated, educated, and wonderful people in the city and around. And yes, we also have intolerant, small-minded and ethnocentric people as well.
So I guess you guys are saying that if you're not originally from here, you're bringing "the outside world" to the rest of us ignorant uneducated natives?
Based on the OP's question and the fact that it was originally posted in the Triad forum, maybe they meant Asheboro? I have heard people confusing the two.
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