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I must formally protest the FALSE ADVERTISING within this “Moving to Asheville” guide. None of the prospective incomers pictured have tattoos, piercings or colored hair and thus are not hip enough to be allowed to move into West Asheville, the River Arts District or the rattier parts of Montford.
Their dress or accessories also show they are not wealthy enough to (deserve to) live in the better corners of Montford or anywhere in (or within sight of) Biltmore Forest.
They might fit in Swannanoa (maybe even the black guy), but Swannanoa ain’t part of Asheville, despite any desire to assimilate it by the ruling-class hippies, limo-liberals and Subaru-socialists.
Hey Big Al, I have to agree with you on this. I totally screwed up the appropriate shoes choices for sure.