My wife is from Mars Hill, which is just north of Asheville. Our cabin is just outside Hot Springs, way up in the mountains. But? We always visit Asheville when there. We like to sight see the panhandlers and hippies in downtown, ha ha.
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WNC is paradise as far as I'm concerned. My son's a junior in high school and considering WCU for college. I have no objections to say the least!
Oh yeah. I don't grocery shop there except for tobacco I can't find anywhere else. Well sans these soba rice noodles... Hah. They do have a great selection though.
I'm certainly going to buy a tub of CH and a pouch of Drum there next visit.
Yeah. Morganton. I'm originally from Winston Salem (born there lived in Clemmons)
reminds me of my bad attempts at prank calls when I was a kid. Called about Prince Albert in Can even though I didn't know what that was about and got all "no we don't have that" and people trying to be helpful and tell us what places might. Called a department store and asked if their refrigerator was running, they told us they don't plug in the floor models
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, my wife and I just went there this weekend. Hey yo what the hell is up with downtown?
Gotcha. Hot springs is about 45 min away for me . That's interesting when you find folks on a forum that live that close and you know the areas they are from.
Asheville city made itself a safe haven, and now they are dealing with an army of homeless people. Not down and out people,. but kids that just want to live in tents. There is a sea of tents every night in the park, and you have to step over used needles and crack pipes on all of the sidewalks, A friend of mine that has had an art gallery in downtown for over 20 years closed her shop because people were breaking in at night and sleeping inside her store. The police said that there was nothing they could do, because of their city council... so... Lexington and over is just one vast sea of drug users.
The needles are ridiculous. I am afraid to walk my dogs around there now.
Yeah that is always interesting. There seems like quite a few N Carolinians here. If anyone else is feel free to chime in.
About the homeless people yeah it has gotten bad like Asheville here. So many people walking the road and such. Meth is especially bad now but pretty much all drugs. We live next door to some tweakers and we have had so much trouble out of them. Their yard is a junk yard.
Yeh, a bunch of movie stars moved in, built billion dollar homes, and then influenced the council to make these safe haven laws... then the movie stars got fed up with the mess that they made, and moved, It's crazy.Yeah, there were more homeless people than open stores.
I hate going there because of it. They're trying to turn everywhere like that with ridiculous twisted laws. But I digress. I just love the NC mountains that's all. But Asheville gives me major anxiety.
Hot Springs is a city where the Appalachian Trails passes through, so it is an AT community. We are all the time picking up hitch hikers at the hub to take them to various places, if we happen to be going there. I make them ride in the back of my truck, because damned if they all aren't the smelliest damn people ever. Usually they have spent six weeks in the woods without a bath, so... I don't get too close to them. But, at least the hikers aren't like the hardcore drug users in Asheville. They usually contribute to the city when there, going to the bars, bands, and such. Good folks, just stinky, haha. Many of them will see my pipe, because I am always smoking one, and tell me that they carry a pipe on the trail too. I don't care, but they usually volunteer that they smoke an aromatic something or other, probably signally to me that they didn't mean pot pipe, ha ha.
I will take my dogs up onto the AT every now and then for small hikes. I would love to be able to just walk the whole thing, but unlike these guys, I cannot get away from obligations for over a year to selfishly do that.
He's safe enough!
Couple of you folks- Please put your location in your Profile.
How:
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Couple of you folks- Please put your location in your Profile.
How:
Under your avatar, (top right, left most of three symbols) you choose "Account Details", which brings up "My Account". "My Location" is halfway down. Whatever you're comfortable with- town, city, county, state. province, etc.