hey guys, after this semester is over, my plans are to move to Asheville, NC. or maybe right outside in the more country area. i am just sick of the city and horrible traffic down here, the heat is really getting to me, and people are just downright rude. plus all the trees are getting cut down, and houses are getting put up everywhere. NC has very friendly people, nice weather, and good nature scenario. what do you think of the move? how is Vermont/Pennsylvania area? thanks.
Varied. And there are a few things in between.
Asheville’s a great town though. We spent several days there in July, and I quite liked it.
yea, i like Asheville, my parents live there, and we moved there for a while when i was younger but had to move back to Fla because of money problems, we were all devastated. they moved back there a while back last year, and i stayed. but when i went to visit them earlier this year, i fell in love with it all over again.
Sounds like Pennsylvania! We also have the added inconvienence of state-run liquor stores. 
Please define “nice weather.” I’ve only been to Raleigh a couple of times, but it was always so humid it was like being in a perpetual locker room. The last time I was there I managed to get the last plane out before a hurricane, and the winds chased us half-way across the next state. The flooding that followed was pretty bad, and caused a lot of grief.
This is your idea of “nice weather”?
djm
Asheville has temperate mountain weather. Raleigh is more in the southern swelter-belt.
Spent a summer in Chapel Hill. Very nice place.
Vt/Pennsylvania expect long coooold winters.
nice weather is season changing, with the leaves falling in autumn, snow in the winter, beautiful flowers blooming in spring, and not too hot weather in summer. when i lived there, we just had our windows open in the summer time, and that was good enough. you gotta think, florida is nothing but summer all year. i only wore a jacket 3 times this year. i am used to real hot, and what a lot of northerners think is hot feels pretty good to me. it is hot plus so humid down here, and all the trees being cut down makes it even worse. it breaks my heart to see 200-300 year old oak trees being cut down to see houses you cant even fit between being put up there. it is pretty miserable when you do nothing but sweat on Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years.
Chapel Hill, Raleigh, same weather. That coastal area is called the “tidewater” region in VA. I don’t know if they call it that in NC but it’s really the same area and has completely different weather than the mountains.(I’m a couple of hours north of Asheville and we have slightly cooler weather normally- not this year though)
Asheville is truly in the mountains so normally the humidity is low and as soon as the sun goes down in summer it is cool.
The big difference? Here’s an easy way to tell-
Roll down the window while you are driving. If you feel hot air rushing across your arm you ain’t there yet. When you can hang your arm out and it cools you off because of the cold mountain air- you made it!
If you really want the mountains, go just a bit north east of Asheville to the North Carolina High Country and you are really in the mountains (parts of Last of the Mohicans was filmed there)
There is a reason that so many Florida people flock to the North Carolina mountains for vacation.
Asheville is a nice town - one of my best friends from college settled there. He loves it. I prefer the mountains a bit farther north, but you get more of the big city advantages in Asheville.
You should move to St Augustine. The people are nicer and more laid back. And there is a whistle player here with nobody to jam with!
I live in upstate NY about 45 min from Vermont, and this entire area is very beautiful. Winter can indeed be very long, but it offers pleasures of it’s own. Autumn is spectacular. If you come up this way to check it out, you’re welcome to stop in for a visit, and we could put you up for a night or two.
thanks for the offer Paul. 
I’m getting old enough to hanker after a warm place to die.
Asheville is a wonderful place to live, to dance and to play music. What it doesn’t have is lots of paying jobs - but if you can overcome that drawback it’s fabulous. I spend a few weeks to a month there every winter, calling dances and visiting friends, many of whom moved there from the frozen north, having come as visitors and fallen in love with the area.
There is a reason that so many Florida people flock to the North Carolina mountains for vacation.
And there’s a reason they are called “Floridiots” instead of Floridians by those mountain folk. They never get above 25 on those curvy mountain roads.
Ok… I’m just going to point this out.
Charleston is the best city in the US.
Actually, the #1 rated municipality in the USA is Moorestown NJ.
At lease that’s the 2006 results…not sure if they’ve done the 2007 survey yet.
Ok… um? Charleston = best. Period.
