Asheville is close enough to Atlanta, Charlotte, Knoxville, and Greenville-Spartanburg to get all their tourists on the weekends, and for us to start restaurants and stores and open new locations there, and for us to get locations of some of their best restaurants and stores.
Which we turn our noses up at, or only patronize while wearing elaborate disguises because this is Asheville and we don't do chains. It just wouldn't do to be caught patronizing a chain.
Although we want you to patronize the homegrown ones we send to you.
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"To sustain the life of a large, modern city in this cloying, clinging heat is an amazing achievement. It is no wonder that the white men and women in Greenville walk with a slow, dragging pride, as if they had taken up a challenge and intended to defy it without end." -- Rebecca West for The New Yorker, 1947
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