[quote=tbalog2;41043564]I'm a 56 year-old hairstylist with an established business in San Francisco. My partner and I are ready for a simpler less stressful life and love the Asheville area. My concern is that when I leave my clients here I have to start completely over. No horizontal move. I will have to get all new clients. How realistic is this to pull off?
Well, it's a bit of an odd area for hairstylists. We are flooded with them, but many are terrible. Only place I've ever lived where I had to go back, not once, but twice to have my butchered haircut fixed! And it's not like I was getting anything fancy, just trimmed up.
So getting clients probably won't be an issue if you're good, but I'm not sure how willing people are to pay for quality. It's not a big image conscious area so you might have to get creative. Maybe in house calls to the wealthy retired folks who tend to keep to themselves up on the mountain?
Otherwise I'd go to Atlanta.
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Originally Posted by tbalog2
I can't afford to live on minimum wage
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Yet something like 40% of the area's people are either unemployed or underemployed. So many Good Wills and consignment shops around here too. Not exactly what I think of when I think of affluent.
Having said that I'm always amazed when I come across a woman who's pulling in six figures with her jewelry making business or when I stop in a gallery and see an established painter's painting going for sixty grand.
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