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Originally Posted by fintstone
If you have lived there (unless wealthy), it is hard to claim that it has not been run into the ground. There is very little industry/work/middle class. Yes...it is a nice place to pass through (tourist), but it is almost impossible to make a decent living. Yes...if you have money (earned elsewhere), it is a good place to move to/retire as you can outbid the poor locals for housing and then they can wait on you in restaurants for minimum wage. It is often ranked as a nice place to visit but not to live.
The colleges are liberal arts...no medicine, engineering, law. Little to help locals improve their lot (maybe teach). The only jobs for liberal arts majors there are service industry (fast food and hotels) with low wages. Wehn any good jobs come to the area, they hire for any their decently paid jobs from elsewhere (who also come and bid up the prices on housing).
A "tourism/retirement industry" is not one where most folks (adults) can make a living. It is why there are so many working poor there now.
Tell someone that cannot get to their home that it is reasonable to have to wait for years to build a path for them.
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You're describing economic issues broadly faced in similar tertiary cities/large towns and their lower-skill, lower-income residents - all over, not just in NC or even in the US. Hardly unique to Asheville.
As for the person waiting for the road to their home to be rebuilt - that's why they're called "disasters" rather than "inconveniences", I guess?