Top 10 reasons NOT to move to Asheville, North Carolina

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Top 10 10 reasons NOT to move to Asheville, North Carolina
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@Bruce1nr 4 года назад

Simple logic alert: Asheville gets a rep for being a cool artsy, indie, hippy city. People move here and price out all the folks who made it a cool place to be.

@ForbiddenSlurp 4 года назад

FACTS. That's why i had to move OUT of Asheville, and i was born there

@adriannedeltoro5914 4 года назад

You are wrong ashville is a great city there are nearly any hippies here because I live in Asheville

@adriannedeltoro5914 4 года назад

@@ForbiddenSlurp you are a loser then

@ZiggzMcGee 4 года назад

@@adriannedeltoro5914 Yeah, let's attack people and make them feel better about their decisions lol

@rageintothelight 4 года назад

Yep and now it is unaffordable for regular people who work for a living.

@buslengths 4 года назад

They’re pushing the locals out dude, it’s crazy here now in days

@feldspar3858 4 года назад

Adam Smith - Who are “they”? Sounds naive.

@feldspar3858 4 года назад

Jay Blazer - Whatever. Marginalizing is weak and point the finger of blame to one group isn’t a solution.

@jayblazer9750 4 года назад

@@feldspar3858 also i work in the community and with the youth to help make changes for the better and our main message is look in the mirror and make a change in yourself first before we can make changes in the community. If everyone did this we could make lasting positive changes in society

@cherthebull 4 года назад

@@feldspar3858 Obviously "they" is referring to people who move there from out of state.

@pixilmon3607 4 года назад

I know right it sucks :(

@Cajesxavi 4 года назад

I’m born and raised in Avl and I say don’t move, too much traffic and it’s getting too crowded.

@justwhatever6923 4 года назад

LilMessi159 and it’s just fuckin boring (I live here)

@Cajesxavi 4 года назад

RnKappa I personally like it, but I can see why some think it’s boring.

@cat9131 4 года назад

LilMessi159 agreed. Lived here since I was 3, and say please. No more people.

@jeborismonke3270 4 года назад

Asheville pretends to be something it’s not and that’s a big city

@matts7125 4 года назад

LilMessi159 exactly. All those Floridiots are clogging the roads

@kevinnorwood7355 4 года назад

We live here and Asheville is EXPENSIVE. Unless your a trust fund baby or just rich forget it! Good paying jobs are hard to come by. Unless you don't mind working 2 or 3 jobs to.make ends meet. During the summer the flatlanders come up here from Florida and block traffic all day long. Agreed with the rest of the video. And the roads SUCK! Infrastructure at all. They care more about putting hotels up then fixing the roads.

@Darkpara1 4 года назад

Trustafarians as we call them. Rich kids playing hipster

@kevinnorwood7355 4 года назад

@Hannah bri94 high end shops too nothing that locals can afford.

@marywebb9127 4 года назад

It cheaper to live in the counties close by and work in Asheville.

@davidwells3922 4 года назад

you have 1950's roads in asheville/buncombe county handling 2019 traffic at least tripled since those roads was built then. the flakes oppose every road improvement ever brought up. try the expressway at 500 pm when you are going to work on a 12 hr night shift in weaverville. it sucks. 1 crash on the bowen bridge and traffic backs up past the beaucatcher cut at the worst time of day.i moved away in 2013 after retirement to a deep south state where a traffic jam here is 5 cars behind a farm tractor.i was a former life long resident of asseville.(name of city with my correction noted )

@sxshigaming4342 4 года назад

Well if you go to college and get a good job you won’t have to work three jobs

@sw120 4 года назад

Who else lives in NC and is sad while watching this?

@JodyBruchon 4 года назад

I like to visit Asheville but there are a lot of looney political activist assholes there. Lots and lots of college kids who needed a spanking growing up.

@d234baum 4 года назад

live in NC been to Asheville several times. There is a huge drug problem there are too many homeless people so many people walk up to me for money. love the NC mountains, just don't talk about politics or you might get shot.

@sw120 4 года назад

Daniel Baum don't even like talking about politics so I won't get shot. I don't live in Asheville, I live in Charlotte, but I have too much pride for my state, no matter how messed up it can get

@kevinmencer3782 4 года назад

Me. I'm actually originally from Smithfield, but have visited Asheville many times.

@theroods7440 4 года назад

SW , we live about two hours north of Asheville in the mountains. If we want a city fix, Asheville is perfect for us.

@jaystrock613 4 года назад

I used to live in Asheville. Now I live in the next county. I call Asheville, Assville. If you like to live somewhere expensive with horrible traffic and a bunch of weirdo's and homeless. Go for it.

@jr-xs9tf 4 года назад

I live 30 minutes from Asheville. Wish I was farther away. Loony bin.

@asmrcindyc6939 4 года назад

I moved away from Asheville a month ago. I lost my job and could not find another job that would support my car payment and allow me to live by myself. Traffic is horrible. There getting rid of things like the things to do before you die wall, the southern restaurant. King daddy’s etc. all the rich or well to do people are moving in and working from home so they don’t understand how hard it is to find jobs here.

@gabebarnes2254 4 года назад

Born and raised in Asheville and I hate that so many people are moving here, our city wasn’t designed for this many people and the infrastructure is coming apart, not to mention there are just too many people here at any given moment

@ericmcmahan3907 4 года назад

I'm born and raised here as well and totally agree with you

@danahill9008 4 года назад

gabe barnes, is the problem the cost of living? It seem this happens wherever the hipster, nouveau hippie crowd move to. They move in with wealth made in other places, drive up the cost of living for locals, leave when it isn't "cool" to live there anymore, and head to the next "cool" town; meanwhile, leaving native locals or longtime locals to clean up the economic mess. Am I wrong?

@lilknapsack1880 4 года назад

Dana Hill you’re not wrong, but people also come here to retire and about idk 10 years ago they built a large neighborhood of gigantic homes. That brought a lot of wealth into the west side. I happened to go to that high school and there was a clear wealth divide. Hipsters definitely come here too. The problem is that most of the jobs available are service or hospitality. We have an outlet mall but you can expect $8/hr there. Rent is outrageous. Trailers are over $1000 on the outskirts of town. I am 25 and was born here but I had to move 45 minutes out of town into a crappy woodpaneled house to be able to afford to live.

@robinreece920 4 года назад

Agree. Asheville was a far calmer city 30-40 years ago. I no longer live there because of the insane expense and rude transplants who've invaded it.

@robinreece920 4 года назад

@@danahill9008 , no you are not wrong. We, the natives, will be cleaning up the muck left by these "outsiders" once they become bored and abandon the city.

@madmessw127 4 года назад

I've lived in Asheville my whole life and definitely has grown so much and it is so expensive to live here

@tarheel2348 4 года назад

Same in Madison

@madmessw127 3 года назад

@@GULLAHTV33 ? How did you get that from my comment

@Rivers198 2 года назад

The infrastructure can’t handle the growth.

@ronwells8806 4 года назад

I have lived in Asheville for over 50 years, the Government is so Corrupt, very costly,I hope new comers will think twice before moving to Asheville.🤔

@sitdowndogbreath 4 года назад

I reconsidered !

@blackberrylady6025 4 года назад

Thanks really help me..🎈🎈🎈

@editorjuno 4 года назад

Ron, you have no idea what costly and corrupt are if you think Asheville is in that category -- trying living any of the big cities along either coast and then get back to me. Been there, done that, love Asheville!

@mikewood8208 4 года назад

Getting near that retirement age and starting to look around where I want to relocate. Spent a week in Asheville and had a blast. The Mrs. and I will be going back for several weeks next time to get a better feel for the place. Thanks for the heads up about the local Gov't. Have to research this and ask the locals.

@editorjuno 4 года назад

@@mikewood8208 -- As long as it's within your retirement budget, you'll love it here.

@ticnatz 4 года назад

I grew up in that wonderful city...had a great childhood in Asheville. But, let me give an example of how crazy home prices have become. The house I lived in there, between the ages of 3 & 13, my dad sold for $35K. I found it for sale on Zillow recently for $774K. Sure, it's been a few decades, but DAMN !!

@ricforbes9 4 года назад

Sounds like EVERYWHERE ELSE IN AMERICA

@davidpayne747 4 года назад

Lol....no my friend....not like everywhere else in America... ..I travel a good bit... Unless you go to bigger cities you do not get this.....in many parts of TN... SC....VA....Eastern NC....The towns people always laugh at Asheville and if you say you live here....they are like.....Whyyyy?....and.......Realllyyyyy???....Asheville and the not true locals are the only ones who think Asheville is cool.....of course unless your from somewhere else and a hippy...druggy....or just a nasty ass.

@skylartipton909 4 года назад

My thoughts Exactly

@GULLAHTV33 4 года назад

@@davidpayne747 and you're white so ..who cares.

@ganymeade5151 4 года назад

Time for a Middle Class, Working Class Revolution. Demand Affordable Housing if you make less than 100K a year.

@desirreichyan365 4 года назад

I know right... always we are full. Don't come 🙄

@jackalope9205 4 года назад

Growing up in Asheville is nice, but the moment you move out of your parents home and attempt to live on your own, life becomes very difficult. I've seen far too many of my friends pushed out of Asheville because they couldn't afford the housing or find a job that will give them a livable pay rate.

@missmable6015 4 года назад

I thought about moving to Asheville then i reconsidered. Glad i did now. Thanks for sharing

@jimmines1342 4 года назад

I live there and I'll tell you it's a s..thole.

@robertracy6860 4 года назад

@@jimmines1342 naw...my Mom lives there and loves it

@jimmines1342 4 года назад

@@robertracy6860 most retires do.

@gaiasophiaschoolofhealing 2 года назад

I moved here almost four years ago and wish I hadn't.

@fierro7771 2 года назад

@@gaiasophiaschoolofhealing please give more info? I just moved here but dont plan on staying long. Maybe a year

@MichelleRaiford 4 года назад

As a resident for more than 20 years, I can attest to the veracity of this list. PLEASE don't move here.

@johnlabus7359 4 года назад

From a voting perspective, NC is not a "very red state". It's about as purple as one can get in the USA. It's purple because the state has a lot of very blue cities among a large sea of red countryside.

@MechaGodzilla-vg4ki 4 года назад

Yes totally agree with you.

@kevinmencer3782 4 года назад

Yes. I never thought about it that way, but you just NAILED North Carolina.

@stephenpowstinger733 4 года назад

It’s not unified - Even in the Civil War it had a large pro-union population.

@bobbylawsen9638 4 года назад

This is why it's best to evaluate the red or blue based on counties, not the entire state.

@kevinmencer3782 4 года назад

@@bobbylawsen9638 city by city would be even better, some of the counties in North Carolina are very purple, as far as politics goes.

@codyway7424 4 года назад

I grew up near Asheville, and up until the 90's, Ashville was a great place. Been stradily going downhill since. I see it as a small San Francisco. Same problems, same reasons.

@fredsavage4925 2 года назад

yep. when be here now closed, asheville was done.

@danielwilson9640 4 года назад

I'm a native of Asheville and for me as a local country boy this is truly home.. Fishing+hunting basically anything outdoors you just cant beat it.. We as locals are very respectful and welcome most outsiders but yes downtown has become very liberal and more and more tags I see on cars are from the great north west and honestly the more and more people move here the harder it is for locals to afford buncombe county.. Anyway I'll be nice to you if your nice to me see you soon...

@romason124 4 года назад

I promise I'll be nice to you

@tt55k 4 года назад

Great attitude! Hope to meet you some day . Bless

@jayblazer9750 4 года назад

Whats up Daniel? Hope all is well with you. And your comment was on point✌😁

@ericmcmahan3907 4 года назад

I agree if you go outside the city it is way better

@danahill9008 4 года назад

Daniel, the same thing happened to the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia. IT was a beautiful place and the locals were all so kind. The originals still are. Then they opened Interstate 66 from Front Royal to northern Virginia. Now, Novas (Northern Virginians) have moved in by the thousands and brought hugely inflated real estate prices as well as a general increase in all prices. I am told by some locals that they can barely pay their property taxes any more. IT's so sad.

@Nate-vi6pm 4 года назад

Also there is absolutely NO people fighting for preserving historical areas and family farms. It all turning to urban sprawl of condos, very expensive custom homes on small lots, and apartments complexes (typical 2 bedroom goes for $1300-1400)

@Suzjoh825 4 года назад

I lived there for nearly 35 years. MOVED back to Florida. Homeless situations, crime, So many homeless, I thought I found a dead man laying behind the business I worked at. Thought about calling 911, but he eventually moved. It used to be a quaint little town, not now.

@chad735 4 года назад

We're full to capacity, we don't want you to move here. 😂😂😂😂😂

@kennethmay9002 4 года назад

No worries. Too much lib politics for me.

@chad735 4 года назад

@@kennethmay9002 plenty of conservatives around here though too bro. Plenty.

@feldspar3858 4 года назад

Tough luck. I was ASKED to move here.

@conni70 4 года назад

people are moving to my city, so i'm moving to yours...

@feldspar3858 4 года назад

KD 2 - Dumb broad.

@karlhungus5554 4 года назад

Asheville has been ruined, unfortunately. Lots of low-wage jobs, high (and still rising) housing costs, a steady influx of people into the city (visiting but also relocating), more traffic, inadequate roadways, too many hotels (some blocking the mountain views from downtown), more chain stores and restaurants, loss of locally-owned businesses, etc. One of the worst parts of the overdevelopment is the cutting of trees and bulldozing of land.

@jennyandrews1671 2 года назад

The taxes are rising, so high my best friend can hardly hold on to her place. I begged her to sell. How do you sell the house you grew up in....

@karlhungus5554 2 года назад

@@jennyandrews1671 I'm sure that's a tough dilemma for some people. Even if she did sell, the question would be: Where to go? Other homes are expensive, too. There's a tiny home community between Mills River and Brevard, but even tiny homes have become overly-expensive. I rent, but that's got its own issues. Most people are getting squeezed, it seems. At least, many people in my income bracket.

@jennyandrews1671 2 года назад

Never said she'd be homeless

@karlhungus5554 2 года назад

@@jennyandrews1671 I never said anything about her being homeless. My point was if she sold at a high price, if she wanted to remain in Asheville and own a home, she'd also have to buy at a high price. You said she "...can hardly hold on to her place" and that you "begged her to sell." That sounded dire, so my reply was based solely on your words. What is it with commenters being so pedantic and combative?

@noahpatterson5667 2 года назад

But above all there's way too many yankkes

@awomanwalksintoabar954 4 года назад

Excellent piece on Asheville. I have lived here for 15 years now and have seen it devolve exactly as Mr. Briggs states in this video. DO Not move here unless you are independently wealthy. Every day a new apartment building or condominium is popping up... shoddy and fast construction and the rent will be $1500 for a studio or $400,000 for a one bedroom condo. Seriously people, every single point made in this video is absolutely accurate. Also, you can bet nearly half the people you will encounter in a day downtown are homeless, impoverished and there is absolutely no way out for them.

@ganymeade5151 4 года назад

greedy landlords and developers

@CWWJR 3 года назад

Thats cheap as hell compared to the high rockies. Average home price here is 3mil. Count your blessings

@thaikravmaga3215 4 года назад

@briggs i am born & raised here in Asheville, NC. I am moving from here asap. I'm writing this @ 12:11am. it's gotten way worse than this list brother!.

@MattieWaynette 4 года назад

Facts! Asheville is way worse than this list and I can think other reasons that should have made this list. I mean christ one damn large ass sink hole is cause for concern on the whole city to make the top of this list? GTFOH

@jigxys924 4 года назад

I currently live in Asheville, I’ve lived here my whole life, some of the points he made are very false but some are also true. Crime rate has spiked recently, and poverty is becoming more common as the prices of everything is rising. Schools are a hit or miss, if you have money and can afford to live in a nice area you will be blessed with a good school but on the other side the bad areas have schools that are lacking the drive to teach students. The jobs are not so good unless you have already built a good career, if you are young and starting out in the job world you will have a hard time finding good paying jobs. He was spot on with the political side of Asheville, there is a big political war between the different views people have. Asheville might be a good place to visit but living here is very lackluster, it’s a money pit for tourists.

@reginaaguilar9300 2 года назад

I live south of you and while I know and understand we rely on tourism its that same reason everything is so expensive and tbe natural resources are getting devastated 💔 😢 I love our mountains

@casfox 2 года назад

What did he say that you disagree with?

@jennyandrews1671 2 года назад

For the locals as well!

@noahpatterson5667 2 года назад

Police defunding made it worse we need more police

@HowtheWorldWorks-yj4fg Год назад

Only real political war in the city is centrist democrat vs Progressive Democrat. Only real bastion of conservatives is in the South by TC Roberson high school.

@designmaniac3920 4 года назад

Just moved back out West from living in Asheville for a year. Horrible weather: the rain never stopped! No decent jobs, expensive housing, very high crime. Thank God we chew our leg out of that one.

@brainshrub 4 года назад

Hiya! I'm the guy you quoted. Thanks for getting my name pronounced right. Anyways - it was weird being quoted rather out of context. You really needed to stretch to find anything controversial. Back in 2010ish a local reporter by the name of David Forbes (Who, I am a big fan of his work on The Asheville Blade, BTW) had opened a conversation around an observation that “Asheville remains a largely segregated city, something the tacitly liberal hippy/ hipster population chooses to ignore for the most part.” I wrote: “‘Segregated is a loaded term that does not apply to Asheville or the hippy/hipster scene.” My point, at the time, was that Asheville's alternative community wasn't trying to exclude or ignore anyone - and that accusing cultural creatives of willful segregation is inaccurate and unproductive. Weird to see it being twisted to imply a defense of excluding people. But meh.

@kla.louise 4 года назад

I live right across the border in TN, close to Wolf Laurel, NC. I love Asheville but I’m glad I live in TN. It’s a lot more expensive in NC.

@ladymaiden2308 4 года назад

Amen.

@ganymeade5151 4 года назад

Tennessee is kinder to retirees. Great idea to move to the eastern TN border near NC.

@thewanderingamerican5412 4 года назад

@@ganymeade5151 thanks for the info.

@frankkositz2342 4 года назад

It's quickly turning into the portland of the east

@stephenpowstinger733 4 года назад

I’ve heard about that. A sad fate to a charming foothills city when a bunch of weirdos start running around.

@zackbrand9311 4 года назад

Frank Kositz you have the hippies in Asheville in the city and the hicks in the surrounding

@frankkositz2342 4 года назад

@@zackbrand9311 we usually go to Brevard nice small mountain town, camping and Sierra Nevada brewery close by.

@dougarnold7955 4 года назад

Now, wait a minute...Portland is the Portland of the east...Portland Maine that is.

@nunyabizness9045 4 года назад

Now that is sad

@jessiekimbrough311 4 года назад

Traffic is HORRIBLE. I live less than 30 minutes away from downtown and it takes me almost 2 hours to get to work in the mornings and sometimes longer to get home in the afternoon.

@MattieWaynette 4 года назад

DONT MOVE HERE I'm born & raised here and it has changed so much in the last 10 years. Some for the better but mostly for the worse. Housing and employment suck, traffic really SUCKS, the homeless population is quickly rising (other cities actually send people here on one way tickets), the drug problem (heroin, crack, meth) is getting worse, effin needle exchange on the west side so now you have to keep an eye out for needles before you step out of your car (mostly on the west side closest to the needle exchange... don't get me started about that place). I live what should be 5 -6 min to down town when was in my teens to 30 now it's more like 15. Oh and did you know the income to cost of living deficit in Asheville is roughly $6,000 higher than Boston (which is very expensive to live in) both having deficits in the $20-30,000 range? Idk how people afford to live here with prices being so high. I live in our family home so I don't have to worry because it's paid for, but I couldn't live here if it wasn't. So please come visit but take your ass back where you came from.

@Prettykittychimi 4 года назад

The reason we’re mad about traffic is because it wasn’t like this 12 years ago when I moved there. The city is growing and the streets are staying the same. Go sit in line on Sweeten Creek and tell me traffic is getting better.

@bluestar249 3 года назад

Ikr! All the roads around here are garbage

@keilana6 2 года назад

Sweeten Creek is unbelievable! Like triple traffic in just five years.

@dianaflegal4495 4 года назад

I'm a yankee that moved here 8 years ago and loved it. The music and the people it I've had to keep downsizing to afford to live here and our neighborhood watch is constantly talking about vehicles being stolen and it finally hit my street. Though you can't beat our beauty, I can't really afford to live here any longer. And the density of population is ridiculous. Almost all the homes in my neighborhood WEST are building tiny homes in their back yards! When the spoon lady moves out you know things have gotten upside down. 😏

@wncgardener4766 4 года назад

"Merrium Avenue"

@wredrfyghjtyfhgjhklm9410 4 года назад

I thought I was the only one that heard that 😂. I'm guessing he was trying to say merrimon???

@jeremyray4714 3 года назад

Definitely called Merrimon

@dhbillings 4 года назад

You realize you talked about high cost of living, low pay, and then wondered why crime rates are high? I mean... you kind of answered your own question there.

@skorptheengineer 4 года назад

That IS how crime works and there are statistics to prove it.

@skorptheengineer 4 года назад

@Boxing Bro You believe what you want. It's obvious you're going to do that. So Ignore the stats. Bothers me none. There is a direct correlation between low income/poverty and crime. The government and independent agencies have produced those findings for decades.

@dividad1 3 года назад

@Boxing Bro Low income/high cost of living breeds poverty, poverty breeds crime. Statistically proven fact. Poor people can't afford a $1200 apt, so they become homeless, or often times live in govt subsidized housing and start selling drugs or what have you to make ends meet.

@dividad1 3 года назад

@Boxing Bro yeah, section 8 housing never tends to house criminals or drug addicts, and no one has ever scammed welfare or used it in a nefarious way 🙄

@billybobhorten1764 4 года назад

They have been doing road work at the brevard road exit of highway 26 for literally 20 years. They are never going to finish I swear. So dumb

@chad735 4 года назад

Malfunction junction is never going to be done. 😂😂😂

@jayblazer9750 4 года назад

😂🤣🤣😂

@tylerk.7947 4 года назад

Hahaha yeahhhh what the in the hell has been going on there????

@djthebeast23 4 года назад

I thought the same exact thing ! Haha. Hendersonville Spartanburg exit has been under construction since I moved here 5 years ago from SC

@828enigma6 4 года назад

Thank the tree huggers and NIMBYs for that.

@eahudimac 4 года назад

Asheville is a fun place to visit of you like to drink craft beer and go hiking/biking and do outdoors type of stuff. I always have a great time when I go there. I would not live there, but yeah, fun place to visit.

@chad735 4 года назад

I've lived here my entire life, it's cool. So much diversity in such a small City. I'm a Christian conservative and love the area.

@ChrisSimpson1979 4 года назад

Asheville, Hendersonville, Brevard, were all great places to live. I was born and raised there. Now we have all of these people moving in from out of town corrupting and destroying this area. It will look like every Florida suburb in 5 years.

@anamiheart 4 года назад

Exactly why this video needs to be shared everywhere.

@feldspar3858 4 года назад

Naive thoughts with small minded ideology.

@828enigma6 4 года назад

Emphasize were great places to live. Not so much now.

@blaacksheep 4 года назад

100000% accurate

@ganymeade5151 4 года назад

Many Homeless due to Unaffordable Housing cropping up everywhere and other home prices rising.

@mollykinns4424 3 года назад

I've live in Asheville for years and my husband is a local and we are seriously looking to move. It's too expensive, too much poverty, and crime and drugs is a problem. The schools aren't great, traffic is ridiculous...and the government is more concerned with catering to the retired tourist buying their 3rd summer hone than the people who live here. It used to be great and now it just sucks.

@HowtheWorldWorks-yj4fg Год назад

Yo what schools r u talking abt? Buncombe and Asheville city school are pretty alright

@BobEgg1996 4 года назад

I moved to the AVL area in 1991. The I-26 connector project has been talked about and STILL hasn't started since we moved here. Tennessee completed their section ahead of time while the NC section has not even begun.

@flatearthgenius5732 4 года назад

Just moved away from Asheville.....traffic is worse than this video suggests. It's a parking lot on I-26 to Hendersonville. 2 lanes to handle all traffic...remember I-40/ I-26 junction is a major south eastern crossroads. Semis outnumber cars on the highway usually. Driving in DENVER is a breeze compared to Asheville.

@Jamesgangcreative 4 года назад

So you were able to afford a move to Denver? Sweet.

@ganymeade5151 4 года назад

Denver is way more expensive than Ashville.

@ganymeade5151 4 года назад

Denver is unaffordable for average earners making less than 100K/year. The HOAs there also kill average owners. Don't move to CO, if not rich.

@carlowens2193 4 года назад

Listen to what he says in the beginning of the video "Asheville isn't exactly bursting with jobs".

@marywebb9127 4 года назад

Asheville has tourism and retail. There are a few factories in the area but not a lot of job opportunities.

@ganymeade5151 4 года назад

low-paying jobs, mostly

@sephiraabraxas9146 4 года назад

I'm from Germany, but me and my sister love the US. Of the 20 states we've been to, we only ever didn't feel safe in Asheville. We've seen people doing drugs in the broad daylight. And I don't mean some good old pot, I mean the full "needle-in-arm" kind of drugs. And people generally seemed to be wary and hostile. It's a shame, since the Blue Ridge Mountains are absolutely breathtaking. BTW, any chance you're planning to do Gatlinburg?

@editorjuno 4 года назад

I live here and have never seen anything like that anywhere in the area -- the only time I ever felt unsafe since moving here was once when I had to catch the last bus home at the Coxe Avenue A.R.T. station well after dark, and that was a tense encounter with a loud and drunken homeless derelict, the sort event that can happen in just about any city in the U.S.

@anitaholcombe4006 4 года назад

This makes me sad. I grew up in Asheville and have been gone from there since the early 1980s. When I have been back and visited it is so changed from what I remember.

@danahill9008 4 года назад

I am sorry this has happened to your hometown Anita.

@ChristianF15cher 4 года назад

What city on this planet isn’t going to be different from how it was 30 years ago?

@vevedehavilland4743 4 года назад

The crime scene tape said Nashville not Asheville

@kevinmencer3782 4 года назад

Lol Nashville, NC isn't even in the mountains. It's on the Coastal Plain, several hours drive away. I like Briggs' videos, but that's just ridiculous.

@828enigma6 4 года назад

I can send you some if it's important.

@ganymeade5151 4 года назад

Too bad that Nashville and Memphis have become Shithole Shitty Cities.

@gillianfisher752 4 года назад

Okay, I lived in Asheville for seven years. Finally left in 2017. Most of the info is accurate, although I don't understand why the crime rate was number one. It's most certainly not "out of control." As for the traffic, we know it's not the worst in the US but it's unreasonably bad. Asheville has been growing for decades and the city has done nothing to accommodate the new residents. Compared to other places of similar size and population, the traffic is awful. It once took me 45 minutes to get home from work, which was only a 5 mile commute.

@lindaconley9969 4 года назад

This is my hometown. You did pretty good. I wil! give you a B+ on it. I have lived in four states over the years. I am amazed at having to sit on I 26 for three hours just to get home on the holidays. Right on about the diversity and jobs. That is why I didn't go back after graduating from college.

@louissummers1987 4 года назад

I lived in AVL, from 10' to 16', and he mentioned three of the reasons I moved away. 1. Cost of Living 2. TRAFFIC 3. Over crowding, All the tourists coming to visit, and seem to want to stay.

@HowtheWorldWorks-yj4fg Год назад

You don’t know nothing u barely lived here 💀

@Thefutra2000 4 года назад

I just moved out of Asheville, after living there for 16 years 🤷 never been happier to leave that cesspool.

@TheHelghast1138 4 года назад

See you later space cowboy, enjoy those old folk blues.

@Jerrel28 4 года назад

CurbsideUnderwood Bang!😎

@ganymeade5151 4 года назад

@@TheHelghast1138 You never know. It could happen to you.

@wiregirl 3 года назад

I want to leave too!! It’s hard to work my way out of here!!

@keilana6 2 года назад

You so lucky. Enjoy your new life.

@jondavis2206 4 года назад

The corruption in the county and city government is mind boggling. Finally some of them are headed to prison but we still have lots more that need to spend time at the grey bar inn.

@jimthompson7402 4 года назад

AMEN!

@astridgalactic9336 4 года назад

Well, on the bright side, at least you're arresting the more corrupt ones. Wish they would do that in my corrupt area as well as a whole lot of other places, starting with DC.

@wintertheampharos4725 4 года назад

Complete with rock hard beds, a bucket for taking dumps and pissing, and other ‘fun’ stuff.

@cnyrollinghillsponyclub5780 3 года назад

I moved away because of corruption in the courts. Even family court is corrupt. I didn't want to be under the local judge's thumb. I haven't kept up with local news. Who was arrested and for what?

@jondavis2206 3 года назад

@@cnyrollinghillsponyclub5780 the county mgr and some under her, a few retired, odd timing for that.. They say from about $100,000 to a couple million appear to be missing, not really sure how those numbers are so far apart. I am not sure if any of them have actually gone to jail. I thought when the judge hands down a sentence you go straight to jail, wasn't what happened.

@CarolinaKrush7 4 года назад

I’m from North Carolina and I have a couple properties there and I emphatically disagree with some of your assessment in regards to living in the gorgeous city of Asheville. People move from all over the country to live here and the one reason most people have for moving here is the fact they they felt free and the people are just so welcoming and nice. You sound bitter and you admitted that because Asheville is so nice that you reached to find all the negatives that most cities have to deal with.

@ocean88eagle9 3 года назад

Whatever helps you sleep at night. I wouldn't own a dog house in that hell hole.

@jimmines1342 4 года назад

Briggs, I'm from Asheville and I didn't recognize a single picture that you showed in your video. The schools are over rated and actually suck out loud.

@ChrisSimpson1979 4 года назад

Little Switzerland is not in Asheville.

@Shy_Hulud 4 года назад

One of the pictures early on was the Jackson Building.... You sure you're from here? Hahaha. Just screwing with you.

@jimmines1342 4 года назад

@@Shy_Hulud I didn't recognize the Jackson building and I've lived in Buncombe Co. 45 years. I'll go back and look again. But what about the rest of the pics? I can't identify any of them.

@jimmines1342 4 года назад

@Sherrie Smith What are you talking about?

@jimmines1342 4 года назад

@Sherrie Smith I've watched Asheville deteriorating since 1976 when I moved there. It's heartbreaking to watch.

@yeah_yeahwhatever 4 года назад

10 reasons not to live in Asheville: 1-10 hipster, rich, white kids with dreadlocks.

@paticusmaximus12 4 года назад

And so called socially conscious liberals investing in property

@Darkpara1 4 года назад

Trustafarians

@gypsyfiresign1064 4 года назад

Us older A'ville natives always referred to them as Crunchy Granolas lol

@jenniferreed7911 4 года назад

Dont forget our democratic senator who has gun control Bill's and bathroom Bill's for the sexual predators poised in washington to vote on while our reps in buncombe rob us of millions

@marywebb9127 4 года назад

Lots of wanna be hippies who were born with silver spoons in their mouths. They like to play peasant. It makes them feel like they are rebeling against society.

@mikelyda2292 4 года назад

You have obviously not been to Asheville in the last 2 years... There are 3 major highways into and out of Ashevile. Due to the mountainous terrain there are no other routes around. The reason for the high crime rate, is meth and heroin. They are building an average of 200 more apartments and condos per month to provide housing. Even though Asheville is a city with a tourism based income so no-one can affird the 1500/ month fir a 2bd apartment rent.

@alexbraswell2955 3 года назад

The Subaru thing is so accurate 😂😂😂😂

@futurefootballelites6093 4 года назад

As a resident of Asheville, go away we are full

@Mimi-ux7qd 4 года назад

LOL

@victoriasimonetv 4 года назад

😅

@mywhorled 4 года назад

Another tolerant lib

@futurefootballelites6093 4 года назад

Bagrilla Jenkins I’m a proud republican. To many libs live and moving here.

@mywhorled 4 года назад

Many apologies. Typically liberals voice such intolerance but I don't blame you. If they were invading and destroying my city, I would feel the same way

@free65riv 3 года назад

Was there 10 years ago. Was folksy and bluegrass music..great street performers....was there over the weekend and wow what a change....for the worse....

@CheeksE-yi8mt 4 года назад

I’m from Asheville and concur with this man’s every assessment

@kimwiliams5434 4 года назад

Wrong: the traffic is the worse through west Asheville all the way to Fletcher.

@ganymeade5151 4 года назад

too many Aholes moving in

@douglaskuykendall8058 3 года назад

That 26 corridor is so bad

@larryhernandez2594 4 года назад

I lived on the outskirts of Ashville and I'm originally a New Yorker and I was treated well and loved downtown Ashville.

@gwillis9797 4 года назад

Smart move. The locals had to do the samething.

@MyNameHousefly 4 года назад

@YouSurf 2 okay boomer

@davidwells3922 4 года назад

hernandez whoopee shitballs.go back to new yawk.

@larryhernandez2594 4 года назад

@@davidwells3922 Nice attitude you have Wells !

@828enigma6 4 года назад

You probably kept your mouth shut and didn't tell them how great it was where you came from. Folks are welcoming but not if you go on about things not being done the way it was elsewhere.

@navret1707 4 года назад

I live in Madison county about 35 miles from Asheville. Buncombe county/Asheville are about as liberal as you can get. If you are there and are Conservative, watch your back. The outlying counties are great. Biltmore Village floods at a drop of rain. I don’t know where you got most of your pictures, but I recognize only about 3 of them.

@tygressblade 4 года назад

I lived in Brevard, NC. Most conservatives living there are very judgement, hypocritical, and they steal and they are proud of it. And that is my experience growing up all of the south. If you see the same behavior from the same group of people all the South then you aren’t making generalizations.

@tygressblade 4 года назад

And anti-Democracy is the name of the game through out the south.

@tygressblade 4 года назад

Joe Sawyer I mean they like to dictate their Christian values (which means lying, gossiping, and putting their noses in the air) and make your life miserable if you don’t now go to their hypocritical bs. And trust me they are pretty nasty. The Christian Right in the South hardly follows the teaching of Jesus.

@stephend.4748 4 года назад

@@tygressblade I know Democrats who are Christian's. But you can't talk when you force your "tolerance" on others only to be a hypocrite yourself. You don't care about the poor you only want some else to take care of it for you and you don't care about children when you kill them in abortion clinics. You want everyone to think like you; like these "Christian's" here in the south. Also the Democrats were known as the Dixie crat party and started the Klan and wrote jim crow laws so maybe you should read on that too before judging others with your "tolerance."

@justaguy2365 4 года назад

I've lived in Marshall and hot springs my entire life. I'm a liberal Atheist and have never had an issue with the more conservative residents.

@Scorned405 4 года назад

I live in Wilmington and the cost of living has almost doubled in the past 8 years. A tiny one bedroom apartment is now 1000 a month. The jobs are absolutely terrible here too

@likaboss_3022 2 года назад

im living in castle hayne because of that

@talon2201 2 года назад

ayy i’m living in that 1000 wilmy 1 bedroom rn

@jeffsimpson9183 4 года назад

I'm still here born and raised but I see exactly what you saying

@juantomas3630 4 года назад

You need to do a video on Flagstaff, Arizona - both good and bad.

@cocotaveras8975 4 года назад

juan tomas I've heard it's good. :)

@juantomas3630 4 года назад

@@cocotaveras8975 it is, it's very pretty there.

@crazeyjoe 4 года назад

It is in deed pretty there. It's cool in the summer however, it can get very cold in the winter in Flagstaff. It has the Arizona Snow Bowl for the winter recreational enthusiasts. For a town of its size, it has a good amount of restaurants, bars and clubs. The one thing it does lack is good employment opportunities.

@crazeyjoe 4 года назад

@Seth Jaffe Unfortunately, anywhere near a college, the housing prices gets jacked.

@PhilWorley 4 года назад

I was there 20 years ago, I loved Flagstaff.

@RoseShell91 4 года назад

I am a 28 year old AshevilleNative and I completely agree with this list! Thank you for keeping it real

@iLuvAirin 2 года назад

Where do the black people hang out?

@RoseShell91 2 года назад

@@iLuvAirin we mostly leave town for hang out activities that aren’t a get together at a friends/family’s home or the park.

@noahpatterson5667 2 года назад

@@iLuvAirin strip clubs , bars

@eileenlohrer5876 4 года назад

It was nice for awhile. Unique. Not anymore 😭.

@ocean88eagle9 3 года назад

Lived there for 30 + years. Glad I got out when I did. Only miss my firends from there, thats it.

@andrewammons1236 4 года назад

I was born and raised in Asheville north Carolina it has gone to hell overtime cost of living is going up cause people from all over moving in so I tell y'all this don't bother with Asheville there's plenty of places to go

@frankihatch 3 года назад

Too bad ppl will come there regardless

@haydenyoung123 4 года назад

Who else lives in Asheville and is sad watching this

@14hank1 4 года назад

Very

@cindy7792000able 4 года назад

Hayden as an African-American do you face a lot of discrimination there?

@irenarch6537 4 года назад

There are some odd people in Asheville glad I was moved out

@juliamatthews3418 4 года назад

I WAS THINKING OF MOVING TO ASHEVILLE! ... NOT NOW! juli

@spearzoid 4 года назад

click bait bullsh*t, but really, we are pretty full up. Glad the video creator isn't moving to Asheville.

@cprocker100 4 года назад

I'm from WNC, lived in Asheville for 16 years and the only thing I really miss is the mountains. We're in Raleigh now and it's great to be in a city that is greatly diverse. We live in a safe and beautiful part of town that is highly integrated and they know a lot about keeping almost half a million people moving on the roads. 4 times as many people here as in Asheville and traffic jams are few and far between. My husband has a great job here and after all the struggling years in Asheville we're not living paycheck to paycheck. Also the downtown area in Raleigh is a lot more than hotels and wall-to-wall tourists. I used to love Asheville but as some of the old timers back up there in the hills might say "it's going to hell in a handbasket"

@apathy3399 Год назад

It's okay. The city council is going to ban handbaskets!

@fr.jimwatersfranciscanprie7187 4 года назад

Funny but Asheville was for many years known as the New Age Center of the US. There are a lot of new age oriented groups and people living around the area. Such as Black Mountain. Crafts.. you have Penland .. best in the US for crafts.

@editorjuno 4 года назад

...and for all sorts of music, from the local ballads and fiddle tunes to first-rate jazz, rock, hip-hop -- and, of course, bluegrass (such greats as Red Smiley, Doc Watson, and Earl Scruggs were born nearby). Lots of touring acts make it a point to include Asheville in their travels -- the city proper has at least a dozen venues with fine sound systems and acoustics, all pretty much within walking distance of each other, and many of the (mostly very good -- you can't stay in business serving lousy food downtown) restaurants make a point of featuring live music.

@jsphillip60 4 года назад

Yes. Kind of like the Santa Fe/ Taos of the Appalachians. I've got lots of friends in Asheville, Boone, and Blowing Rock.

@dougarnold7955 4 года назад

Yoga Journal listed it as one of the best yoga cities in the US. (2010, I think)

@Jamesgangcreative 4 года назад

We live in Asheville and went to Black Mountain, just by happenstance, on Father's Day. We amused ourselves by trying to find a person of color or "diversity." Anywhere: Waiters, waitresses, town folk... never saw anyone. And mostly blond too. Sort of scary. And ironic, with the name "Black" mountain. LOL

@monkeysteinel 4 года назад

I work in Asheville and just don’t move there

@takidrayoung8912 4 года назад

I was born and raised in Asheville. the cost of living here has skyrocketed dangerously. Gentrification has hit. 🤦🏾‍♀️ stop coming here 😭😭😭😭

@ganymeade5151 4 года назад

Protest Gentrification that will render you and your children homeless.

@sammiebarnwell8071 4 года назад

As a native I can agree with most of this. Please dissuade people from moving here! 😂 although my best friend is native to NY but some people come in with a cocky attitude and really talk down to us that’s why we don’t like new comers very much.

@JamesJonesTech 4 года назад

Moved here last year and noticed this is well. What's up with the out of towners moving here and belittling locals?

@user-pq6mr6op3p 3 года назад

I moved to Asheville last year. I paid $500k for a 3 Bedroom single story home right outside the city limit. Property taxes are insane here.Since then my car has been broke into 3 times and the last time someone left a needle on my driver's seat. The Police said they are having trouble with the homeless doing heroin. Just keep that in mind.

@joemamma5403 4 года назад

I was born and raised in Asheville and i can say that he was spot on. The cost of living in this town is so high. A 30 year old, two bed room trailer in a trailer park cost around 800 a month. A two bedroom one bath 900sf house in Buncombe county is 1500 to 2000 a month. When i was a kid we lived in west Asheville just off Haywood rd in a small two bed one bath house. The rent was 250 a month. That same house 30 years later is 2200 a month. Iv been looking to buy a house but everything is this town is so over priced i may never get to own a home for my family to grow up in. Thanks to all the ppl that come from up north.

@jennyandrews1671 2 года назад

Have you seen Waynesville lately? OMG it's packed! :(

@jeremiahlittlejohn922 4 года назад

The traffic in Asheville is pretty bad, there is an intersection they're called malfunction junction it is we're interstate 26 meets up with 240. I've sat in traffic at that particular junction sometimes up to 3 hours.

@jdarov 4 года назад

I'm originally from Asheville, NC. I actually moved into a nice house in Canton North Carolina because it was way way cheaper and it's only 15 miles from Asheville so I still get to enjoy the city without paying City prices. Asheville is a quaint little city but I'm a truck driver so I've definitely seen more cities now and I don't understand why it's so expensive it definitely doesn't have what others have to offer. But the Appalachian Mountains of Western North Carolina will always be home for me

@bigmada 4 года назад

I visited Asheville a few years ago. Traffic and road work was awful.

@cocotaveras8975 4 года назад

Bigmada That's What someone else just typed in a comment. But other than that, everything else is relatively fine, right?

@bigmada 4 года назад

@@cocotaveras8975 Food was good.

@cocotaveras8975 4 года назад

Bigmada Stop trying to make me hungry.

@kevinmencer3782 4 года назад

That's literally every major city in the United States.

@cocotaveras8975 4 года назад

Kevin Mencer Yeah, especially NYC.

@wayneshipman7210 4 года назад

Asheville born and raised. Absolutely just fair. I mean, this man just spit facts only.

@cw4959 4 года назад

STOP MOVING HERE. STOP GENTRIFICATION. STOP REPLACING US

@editorjuno 4 года назад

I rent and have nothing whatsoever to do with gentrification.

@dougarnold7955 4 года назад

Sounds like a good plan...not moving there...

@editorjuno 4 года назад

@@dougarnold7955 -- Those of us already happily living here appreciate that "good plan." :-)

@cw4959 4 года назад

Esoteric Wolf this is the dumbest and most yt thing I have ever heard

@embearasedbear3694 4 года назад

Then make more money and babies hippy.

@TWBrit65 4 года назад

Love Asheville!! what's the name of the pub that sells over 300 types of beer? I was having such a great time - I woke up on my hotel room floor with a postit note stapled to me by my wife stating my name, nationality, blood group and hotel... It was a great time.

@blackberrylady6025 4 года назад

U call that fun....☹☹☹ try Jesus

@TWBrit65 4 года назад

@@blackberrylady6025 I have all my life - but I'd argue that you don't understand having a laugh, blowing off steam and general moderation - it was a great night, it was hilarious fun and It was with my wife... Try a war zone and re-calibrate what fun and sacrifice is brother.

@TWBrit65 4 года назад

@kingofallcrypto LOL

@reggiemiller9117 4 года назад

@@blackberrylady6025 get a clue

@williamedwards6165 3 года назад

Same thing happened to Nashville. Overcrowding ruined a great city.

@lorimitchell9025 4 года назад

I have lived in Asheville for close to 18 years and love it. My complaint is to many people that don’t shower

@pixwillow 4 года назад

Thanks for the video Briggs! I’ve lived here for 7 years and it’s changed a lot in the last few years. I live downtown and I know that some will disagree with me when I say that crime has definitely risen. I’ve personally been accosted three times in the last year and half, in broad daylight. Violent crime and drug related crime have gone up a lot too. Prices have definitely gone up as you mentioned too. The area is beautiful for sure, but living downtown not so much. Great video. Pretty spot on for the most part.

@vibelife5133 4 года назад

I did some personal online research and crime is definately high there, you are a good example being a victim, thanks for sharing, that sucks you got robbed or whatever, sorry to hear that. Criminals suck, we need more cops and tougher penalties on actual real crimes.

@pixwillow 4 года назад

Ernest Rountree thank you. I agree with you. We definitely need more enforcement and protection to get this under control.

@mattcowan3899 4 года назад

I’m not sure you did your homework on Asheville. While we’re definitely not NYC as far as the traffic goes. We have the second most deadliest intersection in the nation. It’s the intersection of Patton ave and New Leicester hwy. We have the most traffic fatalities of any WNC county. The highest per capita pedestrian related traffic accidents in the state. The roads are in such disrepair you’d better get that lifetime alignment plan at the tire store. Some of our schools are so bad they get a D educational grade (Erwin). It’s so bad the schools were legally obligated to send home letters to the parents of students stating this. Unfortunately I have the letter. Our schools are full of heroine. Multiple children OD in the schools themselves each year. My son seen a boy OD last week in the bathroom at Erwin HS. School had been in session for less than two weeks here at the time. The liberal government corruption is horrific. We had at least three local government officials sentenced to federal prison time last week. The local law enforcement is a joke. We recently had someone abducting young women. There have been body parts found on the roadsides locally. But...by all means move here!🙄 From a Asheville native who’s family has been here since 1787.

@kastenkasten2862 4 года назад

matt cowan isn't a pawn shop 0n the that corner

@mattcowan3899 4 года назад

Kasten Kasten Yes. Alan’s jewelry & pawn.

@GarretGrayCamera 4 года назад

11. When traveling and people ask where you live, you'll have to explain you're from Asheville because they'll hear, Nashville.

@Jamesgangcreative 4 года назад

And spell it Ashville. :-)

@j.adamtaylor5642 4 года назад

Yeah! Why is this guy hating on Asheville? I used to live there too and I loved it!

@christiananderson4171 4 года назад

I was raised here. Nothing like it used to be. I hate it here, now. Too many people, practically no affordable housing, and the cost of living is insane!

@mtidbit6343 4 года назад

I live in Hendersonville, worked in Asheville for a bit and love both places. The points raised (short of poor employment) pretty much apply to any city... Crime is far from “out of control”. Housing is expensive..because the location is absolutely gorgeous... you can easily afford a place in rural Kansas, but you will be hard pressed to find mountain hiking, rivers, waterfalls etc.. San Francisco suffers from similar fates (again short of employment). I love it here and of course would like to stem the tide of those moving here but am complimented so many love our home and it would be selfish of me to have so much of what others want and then tell them to stay away... I realize there is a price to everything and if the points you raise is the price, I remain more than happy to pay it.... there just is no place more beautiful.

@michaelluciano1980 2 года назад

Gotta hustle living in Asheville. Got two jobs and my own business just to keep life moving forward. Not for everyone

@Dubbletap187 4 года назад

WNC used to be the greatest place on earth. Everybody knew everybody and there was zero crime and nothing but fun. Then the rich and the rich retirees started moving in around 2000. Now it’s minimum wage seasonal jobs catering to the rich, no careers, huge drug problem causing a lot of crime, and nowhere to live, and people just keep coming and coming and coming.

@michellerobinson1318 4 года назад

Exactly, just listen to the police scanners, drug over doses daily

@timothyandsherryblair7688 2 года назад

I live in Asheville. I was born and raised here. I love my city. I would absolutely be considered a local and would gladly welcome anyone from anywhere. Asheville, from my perspective, is actually pretty diverse. Multiple races and people with all sorts of cultural backgrounds live here and love it. With that being said, it IS expensive to live here. This is true. 20 or so years ago all of the plant jobs that could support a family very well left the area. Couple that with inflation. Now, a single middle class family of 4 needs at least 3 SOLID streams of income to live comfortably. That’s my one gripe about Asheville; they took away good, solid plant jobs and left us mostly fluff and fast food to support our families.

@timgreenglass 2 года назад

agree, asheville is pretty diverse. the buses have instructions signs in russian and spanish.

@HowtheWorldWorks-yj4fg Год назад

⁠just go out by Erwin or Hillcrest and u rlly see the diversity….. ALOT OF UKRAINIANS

@DeadofWinter321 4 года назад

I grew up in Asheville. All of my family is still there, but it's gotten too expensive and way overcrowded. I moved to Wisconsin, I'm happy here. :-)

@bugzy-19ironcityrebels53 4 года назад

I lived in Asheville NC for 8 years and loved it

@aaronfield7899 2 года назад

As someone who lives in Asheville, the only problem I have here is crime

@heidgraben8921 4 года назад

Yeah, I spent some time in Asheville in the 70's and it is lovely, but it sounds like it has been Californicated.

@giovannigamez8901 4 года назад

Heidgraben89 no not Californicated more like Floridacated

@davidpayne747 4 года назад

It would BLOW your mind to see this place now .......true locals are now only 16% of the population... The rest are the sewer drip from other cities.

@gingerpuff764 3 года назад

My Dad and his family is from Asheville. I remember visiting in the 70s. I have fond memories and kind of sad to hear some of this.

@KaileyB616 4 года назад

The crime is from all the drug addiction. Great idea for the video, I need to make one convincing people to PLEASE stop moving into the Mooresville/Lake Norman area.