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["Jeanne Driese" <jeanne13 AT earthlink.net>]

Asheville is a great place to visit.  They have wonderful organic grocery 
stores and resturants that serve local and /or organic food and it is very 
interesting to "people watch" in that fair city.  LOL  Everything from the 
dreadlock crowd to the over-rich.
I agree about the traffic, etc, but you don't have to go very far out to find 
wonderful farmland, not flat but still productive.  For me I will stay in TN 
with their low taxes and not quite so fast at expanding!  Besides James & 
Denise lives here too, so what more could I ask for!
It is sad to say that in the almost 30 years I have lived here, if I were to 
want to move here now in 2008 I would be hard pressed to find any thing I 
could afford!
Jeanne
tnhillwoman
North East TN zone 6
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Gene GeRue 
  To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org 
  Sent: Friday, February 29, 2008 7:30 AM
  Subject: Re: [Homestead] Do You Love Your Community?



  On Feb 28, 2008, at 9:15 PM, Lisa K.V. Perry wrote:

  > We wanted to live in/near Asheville NC. We may yet end up there. We  
  > love it
  > as much, if not more so than Floyd, but land prices there need an  
  > awful
  > economy to threaten to bring them back to earth.

  I've not been to Asheville. Have read again and again how wonderful it  
  is and how the wonderfulness has caused a massive invasion of  
  newcomers who have driven up prices and traffic. Natives are mostly  
  dismayed; newcomers now want to build a wall. This is a fairly common  
  story. I always feel sorry when some new book lists the greatest  
  places to live. People with more money than common sense flock there  
  and substantially change the essence of the place.

  North Carolina has many great qualities. During research for my last  
  edition I found they had one big negative: a crime problem exacerbated  
  by too few prisons and not enough state land on which to build more.  
  They have no doubt done something positive by now.

  NC is the destination of choice for those who have moved from the NE  
  to Florida and then changed their minds after living in FL for a few  
  years. They go back north but only part way. They are known as half- 
  backs.

  The first letter from readers on my web site is from a woman in North  
  Carolina.

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