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by Noelle Dumas
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g with restaurants serving international, continental, southern, and fusion cuisines and boasting a hip bar scene which is attractive to the young professional set. Young high tech professionals longing to escape crowded urban areas such as the Raleigh Triad or Charlotte are choosing Asheville as a better alternative. Why? Asheville is a growing town, not a big city. The clean outdoorsy lifestyle is appealing, there is culture and fine dining here, and housing costs are still less expensive than other metropolitan areas. Asheville’s mountainous landscape is appealing, and rural Appalachian towns are a mere 15-30 minute drive from downtown.
Asheville has also become a mecca for retirement. In June 2003, University of North Carolina Asheville (UNCA) achieved a long sought after goal since the early 1980s. UNCA recognized the trend for retired individuals to relocate here, and opened the North Carolina Center for Creative Retirement or Reuters Center.
On the outskirts of Asheville and in the city itself, new homes are being built and sold to retired individuals from the Northeast who cut their property tax bill by two thirds, and take equity from their lifelong dwellings to make cash purchases of new homes in the shadow of the high mountains.
Many families who have either lost their homes or have tired of boarding them up repeatedly are fleeing hurricane season in places such as Florida, Southern Alabama, and Mississippi are on the move to the Asheville area.
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