I was working there last year at Champion Paper in Canton, just 10 miles west of Asheville.Yes! We were looking to move there. I made friends with a Newspaper editor as a way of checking it out. He said that the town was getting so woke, mostly from New Yorkers, that the kids who grew up there could no longer afford, nor did they want, to live in such a place.
There are plenty of small towns around Asheville where the cost of living is reasonable.