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Message: [QUOTE="husky429, post: 4293664, member: 6696"] I don't mind Asheville; I just don't really consider it a destination city like some people do. I like the BBQ and such and the college is beautiful. I'm also not big into breweries and other millennial hipster stuff which is a big appeal of the place. My impressions of the area are probably colored by the stark poverty and violence that is a part of her family though. The last time we went and stayed with her brother for a week one summer to help him get on his feet after a prison stint, someone shot through our window while we were sleeping. They're the kind of family that had to split wood, or they wouldn't have heat. They ate red beans and rice for weeks if her dad couldn't find a car to fix up and sell. Outside of the Asheville (and the Boone area and a few others if you count them), Appalachia in NC is a deeply impoverished area. Very, very different from much of the rest of the state. [/QUOTE]