Hot, worst traffic in the South (other than Atlanta). Poster child for urban sprawl. I have family that lives there and I live about an hour away. Pluses are lots to do.
Scott, it is a wonderful area. My wife and I have also looked at east Tennessee as well. Our ultimate retirement locale is TBD but we're sure it will be in one of those areas. My parents and brothers still live in H'ville so there is a family tie remaining there as well. But as my brothers are...
As a native, I loved it. But it is very small, mostly local businesses/restaurants with a few chains (mostly fast food) and a Wally World. For me and my family, it was wonderful and I hated leaving but my new wife was bound more by job and circumstance to Upstate SC than I was to H'ville (I'm...
Robert,
I am a 45-year native of Hendersonville, NC which is about 20 miles south of Asheville so I'm very familiar with the area (I moved to SC for remarriage after the death of my first wife in 2008). Asheville is beautiful and very eclectic but it is a relatively small town (not sure if...