Deciding on Asheville or Boone for our Family, Need Advice! (Henderson: attorneys, homes)

[Ellen Pitts]

There's also a link on the mom squad website to the major homeschooling group in the Boone area. It's a little too conservative for me...but you never know what the individual members are like.

[wildwoodflower]

thanks sooo much for the info on boone pegotty. i'd love to hear more baout your impressions of the hs community in boone. it is becoming a huge underlaying factor on our deciosn betwen outside boone or asheville. there seems to be SO MUCH outside asheville for secular and even waldorf inspired home schoolers and little easily obtainable info about what may exisit around boone. but the climate of boone...4 seasons and SNOW is definatly a draw to boone for us.

[Cofga]

Originally Posted by wildwoodflower

thanks sooo much for the info on boone pegotty. i'd love to hear more baout your impressions of the hs community in boone. it is becoming a huge underlaying factor on our deciosn betwen outside boone or asheville. there seems to be SO MUCH outside asheville for secular and even waldorf inspired home schoolers and little easily obtainable info about what may exisit around boone. but the climate of boone...4 seasons and SNOW is definatly a draw to boone for us.

Last time I checked the Asheville area had 4 seasons and snow, or has that changed due to global warming?

[wildwoodflower]

i heard they get very little snow, sometimes not at all....especially compared to boone.

[Cofga]

Based on the 30 year averages

Boone gets 55.6" of precip with 35.8" of snow
Asheville gets 37.55" of precip with 13.6" of snow

Make sure you have 4wd in Boone

[wildwoodflower]

yup. we were used to getting at least 75 inches of SNOW each season and had a pretty gnarly mountain road to travel on.... so we already have 4 wheel drive on both of vehicles

thanks for the avereges. it helps get an idea. 13 inches a year is very very little! we used to get that in a night, lol.

can't wait for a winter trip to the area to get an idea of how the season seems. wonder when the best time to go for nsow is... maybe early feb?

[organick]

boone def. has more of a winter than Asheville. I think overall you are going to find way more waldorf, homeschooling etc around Asheville. The area around Asheville is progressive because of Asheville and its community. The are around Boone is progressive because its college town. That being said both places have a large amount of more conservative. very religious people when you get outside of town. I think you need to find a balance of whats most important. You wont find the more rural feel you can get close to Boone Close to Asheville but you will sacrifice the easy access to the aformentioned in Boone. Its there just not as abundant.

[organick]

oh yeah.....Asheville may get 13 inches, although that even feels high, of snow but it will all be gone by 2 pm the next day in almost every case.

[Cofga]

Originally Posted by organick

oh yeah.....Asheville may get 13 inches, although that even feels high, of snow but it will all be gone by 2 pm the next day in almost every case.

Perfect! My definition of a good winter is one in which I don't have to shovel any snow. Looking forward to the move south in 3 weeks

[sapphos]

Originally Posted by wildwoodflower

thanks sooo much for the info on boone pegotty. i'd love to hear more baout your impressions of the hs community in boone. it is becoming a huge underlaying factor on our deciosn betwen outside boone or asheville. there seems to be SO MUCH outside asheville for secular and even waldorf inspired home schoolers and little easily obtainable info about what may exisit around boone. but the climate of boone...4 seasons and SNOW is definatly a draw to boone for us.

so what did you decide? We're planning (although still in final decision making stages) to move to Asheville so I can go to massage school and eventually move to the NW where we'll either go to a crunchy place with no jobs to speak of but fabulous community and great local food or to a not as crunchy place with great food and less community .

We also plan to home/unschool, and are in that yahoo group that was spoken about earlier. Definitely looking for the local food, natural parenting types, yet love a lot of the cultural aspects that exist in Asheville as well.

I have to say, after growing in CT, moving to Miami, then Argentina, then Chapel Hill, San Antonio, Savannah, and back to Miami we've seen a lot and no place is certainly perfect. I often think the more you move around the more you want to bottle up everything you love about different places and then move to that bottle

And LOL, everyone talks about lack of jobs, low wages and high cost of living...HAH. Miami has all of those and then some. It's almost laughable when I consider that our car insurance would drop by 75% every SIX months, the same amount of rent that we pay here for a so so small 2/1 duplex would get us something pretty damn nice, and the plethora of what we would call NICE people will probably increase tenfold. I guess it's always relative to what you're used to and it's always interesting in these forums to see people have either a love or hate relationship with the place they live in and so hard to find good objective thoughts.