North Carolina's Cesspool of Sin: Asheville
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- A look at some of the what makes Asheville North Carolina's Cesspool of Sin
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Is sarcasm truly dead? Anyone who thinks I actually hate Asheville didn't actually watch the video
The Carpetbagger I live here and i know that that down town there's a lot of hippies
This guy is like the most wholesome guy on the entire platform and you are calling him hateful, lol.
You were being facetious...tongue in cheek as it were.
u need bigger sideburns and bigger glasses. then your look will be complete
It's obvious you like Asheville. I don't like your opinion of the "typical" Southern city or the South in general. The rest of the South is very quirky and eccentric. You're a bigot. Go back to whatever shithole you came from.
Love the music on the street. However, if you think Asheville was a cesspool in 2015, you should see it now!!!
Born and raised in Asheville, way to many moving here now causing lots of congestion and housing shortages and the job market is low, expensive to live here.
Russ Williams I'm an Asheville native as well. I have a love/hate relationship with how much it has grown.
It’s the same whenever Liberals move into any area; first they bring in the “Artsy stuff”, then the drugs, then the suppliers, then the crime, then the homeless, inside of 20 yrs the middle class is destroyed and you’re left with Government workers (the small middle class), the wealthy and the immigrants and poor folks who all serve the wealthy. Don’t believe it, look at California, Oregon, Washington, Arizona, Colorado, and that’s just the Western U.S.
Arts and music equals greatness. I welcome it in every city I have lived. Nyc portland or etc. They are great places to live and get wealthy as well.
As far as I've known, it's been hippy town
Born and raised there too - 60's and 70's until I went to college in Chapel Hill (another interesting place!) It was a sleepy little town then. Love, LOVE Asheville but it's a lot different now - I still visit every chance I get.
Needs more cowbell.
5:33 More cowbell.
I said the same thing!!!! I got a feva for more cowbell!
At least the boy and girl playing old time mountain music was pretty good.I like that stuff and they were pretty good at it.
And then people started living in tents, and taking dumps everywhere. The end...
Didn't see one tent in 3 days.
Sarcastic Maniac... San Francisco actually has a City funded crap patrol that picks it up and hoses it down.
welcome to the hotel california lol
Sarcastic Maniac Lmao 😂 😂 😂 😂
Raymond J it’s such a lovely place! Where’s the needle? Lol
Asheville is weird.....I’ll never go back
Please don’t. And you’re correct
I'm read there are a lot of cults there.
Appalachia's Portland, if you will.
That’s the very reason I WOULD go!😁😁
The world is a cesspool of sin
Hahaha. Amen.
I go there on holidays
Everyone needs to start pooping in their garden.
Jay Dub ya truth
some places more than others.
I love Asheville! If you really want to see a cesspool of sin, take a trip to my boyhood city, Washington, DC. Asheville is a kindergartner’s birthday party compared to that.
What makes it so much worse in that regard?
Living in DC now. Originally from NC. Wouldn’t move back at all. DC is the best city in the US.
@@2jcward, hey, to each his own.
Atlanta is the real cesspool of sin; high crime, homicides, sex parties, STDs, wide open sex, high HIV rates, etc.
Are you kidding ? My wife and I love visiting Asheville! We love the arts and music screen of it all. The craft breweries are so enjoyable . Great city , great outdoors and great vibes . This is what I take away each time when visiting .
Asheville has changed over the years, like most towns, but what you showed is less than 1% of the real Asheville.
I could enjoy this video if I wasn't so genuinely concerned that this dude was about to have a heart/asthma attack. Focus on breathing, bro.
Aaron: He's way overweight. John Candy died in his sleep because he was overweight. Heart attack.
It can be very, very loving and caring to tell someone they're overweight. If your telling them that causes them to do something about their unhealthy eating habits, it could save their lives. This guy's breathing while walking normally is a bad sign. America is obsessed with eating garbage, and eating too much, thus we have an overweight issue of epidemic, deadly proportions.
Joel Midkiff - Anything posted on TH-cam is "ya own business." The purpose and intent of comments is to express anything and everything, within TH-cam's parameters. Anybody may say and caution that The Carpetbagger is overweight. If something is "ya own business" then it shouldn't be on TH-cam. Further, being silent about someone endangering their life is NOT loving/caring.
Joel Midkiff you're a piece of shit, dude.
First thing I noticed. Being overweight is not healthy, especially at his age. That visceral fat build-up is from eating way to many carbohydrates for pleasure.
Every town has its crazies, but Asheville is a great town!! I should know, I was born 20 miles down the road!!
It reminds me of Seattle about twenty years ago. The beginning of the end is near.
Annette Testa , Ah--ha. I knew there was a reason why Seattle is one of the fastest growing metro areas in the United States!!
This is the most astute comment after reading 100's. Not just Seattle but the whole state, especially Spokane.
I am a native-born North Carolinian that traveled extensively in the state of Washington in the trucking industry.
Seattle has ended??? That's news to me.
It reminds me of Seattle now it's just at Seattle's worse we have rainbow colored sidewalks and the rainbow flag flying right next to the American flag
J. Marie follower of Christ got a problem with gay people being treated like human beings lady?
Fell in love with a young lady from Asheville.
One of the coolest places in the US! Visited there for about a week and I'd love to get back there. Tons of great breweries too! And then there's the Biltmore... wonderful town!
More micro brewery's since you've been there
You wanna see a sespool of sin, Come to SF. CA.
Jim Cox Who the heck can afford to live there now unless they are a millionaire? Even the smaller cities like Pleasanton, San Ramon, and Livermore are just as expensive!
Or PORTLAND.
Liberals destroy culture. I’m not talking race , like liberals are obsessed with ; mean small town culture . Once liberals move in , chain stores , tax increases, unaffordable housing, homelessness, and progressive ideas that change the charm of these towns . Sad
Went there. Oakland was much worse.
Sin? More like an unaffordable due to the tech industry. The hippie days are long gone in SF and Bay Area.
The mountains are busting at the seams. The way of life my family knew for generations in my homeland is dying because of the influx of people from everywhere. Our long held traditions and accents are dying. Families who’ve lived in these mountains for generations can’t afford to keep families intact and stay here anymore because prices are being driven up. There’s a sacred history to these mountains and generations of stories I’m not sure outsiders can appreciate. I think it’s so very sad that people don’t have their own generational family bond anymore. They come here as lost souls and raise their children, if they are able to foresee the need and beauty of children, without their extended family. I find this so sad. Please go home.
@Michael Hill Trump voter I bet.
Same in Florida
Go cry about it to the Cherokee
Feel your pain... From North Ga
Stolen mountains...
What?
Nobody staring blindly into their phones? What a horrible place..
Oh Wow! I'm 80 years old and this looks like a fun place with lots of talented people to me. I particularly like the drum circles, being a conga player myself. Enjoyed the video. Thanks!
If your playing the Conga at 80 and think this is 'the most' sounds like you got offtrack 40 or more years ago. Maybe you should shift to clogging or 'flat footing' like your regional heritage, lest your another one of those Yankees. Robert at 68.
@@bobmalack481 Hi Bob: I started playing the Congas when I was 78. I will never really be great at it. I can't do the really fast hand speed things, but I can do a lot of nice
rhythms. I have a lot of Afro-Cuban and Latin albums and I sit and play my congas along with them. I really love it. I am 84 now. I took up the tenor saxophone when I
was 82. I'd never seen one close up before. I got a "wild hair" feeling that I would like to play the sax. I can play a lot of the music I really like now and have kinda let the
congas slide but I still play them once in awhile! Thanks for your post to me!
The place doesn't seem to be what it was when I first visited it in the late 70s. This is what happens when the local population doesn't make sure its expectations are fulfilled and that its values don't get corrupted.
Okay, what place on earth is just like it was back in the 1970's? Not even Antarctica. The past is a nice place to visit in your memories, but you can't live there.
Asheville is and always has been a beautiful place. The beauty of the mountains and her people filled with art and whimsy. Then there isn't much not to love in most of NC except their government.
I used to live in Hendersonville, NC. I only went to Asheville 3× in my whole 10yrs living there.
Don't blame you. Nothing there but the 3 D's: drinking, drugs & debauchery.
As a resident, there's to much witches and weed.
How's that a problem?
Matthew Polston
Wicked's and a drugs can bring about evil demons you can't even imagine and that seems to be what's happening
sitdowndogbreath Except that you have zero evidence for that outside of a book written by superstitious primitives who worshiped a god who was appeased by blood sacrifices and allegedly murdered millions through a global flood that never happened.
Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to roll a fat joint and laugh at the rest of these equally ridiculous comments
Fabulous Taco , By looking at your photo I'm not sure of which group to place you in. My guess is both.
Fabulous Taco weeds good fucktard
Thought about checking out Asheville. Now after watching this video there’s no way I’m going there. Bunch of weirdos. Thanks for giving us the heads up.
Gimme a break. Was just there. It was fine. Good restaurants, walk around, get a drink.
LOL....you are sure uptight. I bet you are conservative.
I bet you are moron.
I live only an hour away. I avoid it like the plague!
I love Abby the spoon lady❤️❤️
Me too!
this caught my eye, cause recently a friend went there to visit someone, he quickly left said was to weird for him
I lived in nearby Weaverville for 5 years. I would regularly visit Asheville; it was an awesome place to be. But now, it seems like it's in danger of being overly developed and the types of people there are rabidly liberal and ironically just as close-minded as their right-wing counterparts.
God help you if you even whisper against their liberal beliefs.
Liberals are far more intolerant than people who are more conservative and think the world would be a better place if everyone was converted to Science through TED talks seminars. It's just another form of evangelical madness.
Lived in Monford Park
Girlfriend was from Weaverville
Late 70's (Laurel Moody)
It was a Utopia and dirt cheap to live.
Drove a truck as a teenager with a fake ID...no pics on license back then
Some older folks that knew me...
Still call me Uncle Chris.
I stick to the north these days
Closer to New Tazewell and the Gap
We just passed through Weaverville not too long ago. It’s like a small Asheville now.
+a mountain's a mammal - You're thinking of Scientology... that is the religion/cult... plain old science is not mutually exclusive with religion... you can believe any religion you want and still be educated about science. I'm honestly afraid to ask, but what is so bad about TED talks?
If only everyone was like you right?? 🤡🤡🤡
You should touch on the amount of homeless that outnumber the people who live here 5:1. Or the fact that people from NYC and Florida come up here and buy all the houses and rent them out at NYC and Florida prices so no one can afford to rent them without having 100 flatmates to split the cost. The fact that everything here is overpriced and people keep flocking here is turning the place in to a bigger and bigger cesspool. It wasn't like this 20 or even 10 years ago.
I did and thank you for your generous offer.
Al Nightly ... you are 100% correct ... I was there, then; I went back a few years ago and vomited. My family members in Jackson County feel the impact of Those You Mentioned raising prices and pushing them out. It is sick. It is foul and dirty. It seems to have started with some of the California Hollywood rich, buying up the land, and making mansions with gates, then calling in their friends, and the friends of their friends. They built houses so high up and steep that no one could get there without 4-wheel drive and extra water for when the radiator overheated. These houses dot the once beautiful Smokies, marring a National Treasure. Why no one fought to save these mountains is a sin.
There's 450,000 homeless people in Asheville, Al Nightly? Wow, that is a problem. Makes me wonder about your other "facts" like the 100 flatmates statement. You got yourself a serious case of hyperbole Al Nightly.
Sounds like an agenda to me.
No you are 100% correct
What the hell happened to Asheville? I was there many years ago and it was a quiet, quite southern town. Now it looks like some California shitville.
Dennis Goebelt ? Asheville is fine. Was just there.
raleighman3000 Looks like there’s a big street scene. None of that crap years ago. I guess if you’re into that, it’s fine. I’m not.
Dennis Goebelt lol, couldn't be more right. There is a huge population of transfers from California here. A lot of west coasters period. And it shows
Richard Parker yes, its better than it ever has been. Busy downtown, good restaurants, good shops. If it was all southerners (and i'm southern), it would be boring and no bustling activity. Thank god for outsiders with money.
Liberals happened. They destroy everything they touch.
Lived there for 5 years... No thanks.
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.
yeah housing kinda blows right now here and everywhere for that matter, my car has never been broken into ever (hide stuff under seats when you leave it somewhere), but yeah the heroin is an issue.
yea back in the 90's my mom found an apartment in downtown for 1k a month
To be a cesspool of sin, it seems pretty peaceful to me. I love my city. Some of the nicest folks reside in these mountains...
100% true
I mean not really lmao
A cesspool of sin is an environment of progressive, nonjudgmental people that are not squares of the worst kind like staunch, God-fearing churchgoers and boring, settled people that work a job, raising kids, and spend their weekends watching sports or tending their yards. 😂
@nikolai pudzianowski don’t you know sarcasm when you read it? That is assuming you can read.
Looks great.
Damn. It used to be such a lovely place.
Drugs will do a job on your brain.
That looks like the Haight Ashbury District in San Francisco in the 60’s.
What a shame.
Lol. U r a fool. I was just there, it was fine.
Nancy Polosis' district.
miami used to be a lovely place until cubans took over in the 1970's... now we have the same shit in asheville... fuck em' and feed em' fish heads !!!
I love the sarcasm and dry humor. Cool vid.
I love Annabelle's dancing... what a sweet little girl! Made my day 🙂
Ashville looks and sounds vibrant. Thanks for the tour😊
The very talented Abby "The Spoon Lady" Roach 02:22
I went to downtown Asheville last summer and really enjoyed it. Very artsy and flowing with good street music. Lots of little places to eat. Kind of a modern day hippie town so to speak.
yay! you showed Abby the spoon lady.
Great food. Great beer. It's where old hippies and college professors go to retire. I go up there all the time to visit my daughter and family.
Philip McGee screw hippies they're bums
Welcome to Asheville NC
The cesspool of sin
Don’t you just love it ❤️
This uptight white guy wandered into that drum circle and got struck by the lightning bolt. Danced like a weird old man. It was fun.
So...it's a "cesspool" because of street performers. Hate to think of what would be thought of the major European cities where it's common....
LucianCorrvinous Son of Hekaté
Sarcasm dude. He was making fun of folks who actually think that. Did you even watch the video? 🙄
Something tells me you failed to watch the video before commenting. Bless your heart. lol
Right? I love street performers
Though not my cup of tea, I thank God we love in a country where freedom reigns. They may be freaks, but they are OUR freaks and this is just as American as apple pie.
Looks likena awesome place! Saw nothing but talented street performer's and people truly enjoying life👍👍👍
Portland of the south?
Much cleaner than Portland! There aren’t protesters, homeless, and garbage everywhere.
pretty damn close, used to live in asheville and have visited portland. Nearly identical
Portland is our sister city (I'm not making it up)
Little San Fran
That man woodburning using the sun was amazing.... It gave me some ideas
Anna dancing 6 years ago...........oh my Jacob. That is cuter than a cat vid!
Kat Willhite Thank you, she is/was a cute kid
Looks like Austin, Tx, land of the lost.
Do you have a problem with our governor?
People that don’t spell, capitalize, or use proper grammar know exactly what they’re talking about!
Wonder Granny I was born and raised in Austin. I was born in the late 1960s, a child in the 1970s, and a teen in the 1980s. I left the city in 1988 and don’t even recognize the place anymore. It was a sleepy and wonderful little city to grow up in. The only weirdos you had in the city were hippie transplants from elsewhere that were going to the University of Texas
I used to think these places were cool when I was immature in life. Now 11 years later I reflect back on wanting t move to cities like Asheville, Austin, Portland and I moved to one of these, even had a fascination with it for some time but living here is not the same as visiting. The place I ended up picking was Portland but I looked at all of these options. One person you know online says ya come up here! but you don't have enough of a support system to stay, you get depressed, lonely, jobless still and its horrible. Never move to these "meccas" or most popular city type places. I fell victim to it before. Portland and St Petersburg FL I lived in as well as Sarasota which made a top city list too.
Now as I am embarking on leaving Portland area for good, I am looking for locations that are low cost where few people are going to.
Low unemployment, University of Texas, Silicon hills... yeah, sure is lost. LOL
I went to 9th grade in Asheville NC lol
I'm born and raised in Seattle, Washington.
And, way back, in 1990, my mom and her dumbass boyfriend drove me and my brother, and a kitten, in a Honda Civic with a U-HAUL box on top, all the way across the country to live with some friends of hers in Asheville, NC.
While we were there, we moved into the projects, I went to a KISS concert, (KISS, Slaughter, and Winger, at Asheville coliseum,) and my mom's boyfriend got his arm almost completely ripped off because he got hit by a semi truck trying to hitchhike home after my mom left his drunk ass at the farmer's market!
After him getting his arm reattached with the help of skin grafts taken from his thigh, and the school year ended, we decided it was probably a good idea to just come home.
You may like Asheville.
You might just absolutely love it!
But I DON'T!
Between having to join JROTC at school, to my brother and I being the only white kids within a 10 mile radius of our giant cockroach-infested apartment, living in Asheville NC, even for less than a year, was an absolute NIGHTMARE!
(I did have a girlfriend for the school year, Heidi Babbitt, and one of the only other white kids as a best friend, David Hostadt, but, a long-haired white boy was obviously not gonna be even close to anything resembling, "popular" lol my kitten was hit by a car not even a week after we got there, and I was the target of every school bus bully all year!)
Keep your Asheville NC!
The lingering strange dreams I have about the place every now and then is quite enough for me!
There is some sin. Drunkenness, homosexuality, paganism, etc. It's not as bad as New Orleans, Las Vegas or Key West though. I'm a born again Christian and was in Asheville for 3 months. I thought it was fun. Lots of music, art and chess. If you like sightseeing, there are lots of old churches and, of course, the mountains.
Sin is a man made concept
Eli Purser some people think sin (breaking moral law) is superstitious belief, but they still judge me when I hoof them in the nuts & steal their shoes....haha!
This looks incredible, like an actual resemblance of a community in 2018!
I was recently in Asheville for a few days. Met some great people and had a good time. As always.
This is pretty accurate. Most of this was filmed during a festival, but there are a lot of festivals. And some of this goes on even when there's no festival.
The phrase "cesspool of sin" goes back, I think, to the prohibition era, because of moonshine, or something. Idk, but the hippies here - real hippies not hipsters - are pretty wholesome. There's no red light district or street-drug culture. More like back-to-the-land sustainable-agriculture type of hippies with liberal arts degrees. Lots of vegans. Mostly white and from upper-middle class families, though they'll pout if they think you notice that.
Of course, they're hypocritical and kind of dumb, in a cute way, but still wholesome and friendly and safe. We like our hippies here. They play banjo and dulcimer, and sing mountain blue-grass songs. Come see them. But don't move here; too much traffic.
Drug culture???
I guess you don't notice the needles laying all over town.
I was just in Ashville two weeks ago, soon as we started walking the sidewalk, I yelled out "I smell Pot" well I did haha
Geez, I didn't know street performance was sinful. Must be wicked me, in this hell hole that is NYC.
THEY ARE HAVING WAY TO MUCH FUN.
Heading there again tomorrow. I could live there
Hopefully asheville doesnt infect the surrounding towns anymore than it has
When asheville became a sanctuary city, that was the beginning of the end. Its a shame too, when i first got here in 01, it was awesome.
Keep in mind these people aren't from here; 30 years ago Asheville was still a conservative place until people started moving in.
Just a few years back Asheville was a great place to live. This is what happens when you let freeloaders take over, trying to be accepting of course, but the consequences are always the same.
No issues with the street performers as long as they keep it family friendly…if not I will draw a line.
*So this is where all of the street performers wind up if they cant get a ticket to California.*
Or they left NYC
Yup
Yep! That's San Francisco, "the Haight," Goldengate Park and "Berzerkely" right there! Asheville must have an uber Leftist enclave aka hippy land! I guess what I'm wondering is why? The hippy culture usually only becomes entrenched in university towns, tourist towns or cities that have very lax homeless ordinances. Is Asheville a university town or tourist destination?
@GoldenState
Still in Cal or made the exodus? I moved to Texas from San Jose!
I am from California and I love Asheville!!
If that's sin, bring it on! Looks like a fun place
seems like there might be a little more public drunkenness than some other places. and i cant say for certain what sort of state the shirtless guy at the drum circle near the end was in... but having a bunch of street performers doesnt make a place a "cesspool of sin" in my eyes
The title is sarcastic, the locals have taken the label as their own
very nice, thanks man i enjoyed that.
Thank you
Love Asheville !!
WOW the San Francisco of the South
dan conlan BEST ANSWER OF THE YEAR🏆🥇🏆
Also a shithole
Exactly. Dude just drew you a picture.
san francisco is shithole and is expensive everyone is angry they have to work 110 hours a week while hippys and addicts have happy fun time all the time. i can work 40 hours a week in ashville live okay and have enough tolerance for hippys playing drums and dancing . living in any major city on the west coast its peoples money pr lack of the puchasing power that is really causing alot of probs .
dan conlan - You noticed that too, eh?...lol
I was considering a visit. Just changed my mind.
Asheville has become Trashville.
ACIDVILLE
Only thing totally different is to visit the Biltmore Estate, gardens, winery, etc. Google it. Visit, then leave and go on the Blue Ridge Parkway and pick ann Inn or Resort along the way up to Blowing Rock. Visit Mt. MITCHELL, highest point east of the Mississippi with a paved road all the way to the top. The Blue Ridge Parkway has stunning views on the Appalachian and Smoky Mountains with many places to pull off take pictures or just relax. People really need to discover this area and forget about the wacky Asheville scene. You can rent cabins along rivers go to the Chitol Resort in Blowing Rock.. Look up the website. Incredible vacation resort. Can't say enough about the mt. Ranges. Go next year to the beautiful beaches, where horses run wild on the outer banks. I live in Cary. A lot of Northerners and honestly, the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill area is an extremely diverse culture with people from all over the world coming to work in the area because of Duke University, UNC- Chapel Hill, the Research Triangle Park with major computer companies Pharmaceuticals Etc. The most PhDd's in an area this size in USA. Duke University Hospital UNC hospital Wake Hospital a major Heart Center. Rex Hospital. Sports stadiums I could go on and on but you get the picture this state has always been in the top 5 of places to move to. Then you have Charlotte a city that is a banking Capital in the Southeast. Just think about it. Many Northerners have married Southerners, there are many biracial and multiracial people hair there is a large Hispanic community a large black community there is also an Indian Community in RDU. Any other pockets of different nationalities. It's no longer a truly Southern State and some people like it other don't, probably people who are Southerners and don't want to mix with other people groups. So, that's my speech, just thought I'd give you something to think about
I live in NC and haven’t been and never will now
This is a very bad portrayal
Asheville isn’t a bad town it’s a good place to visit if you haven’t visited you don’t know
Hey, J! My my my! Those are mighty clean streets for a cesspool...
Not everybody loves the drum circle.
This city is clean, safe, and easy to walk. The people are diverse, open and friendly. The performing artists are wildly talented and inspiring. The drum circle.....Awesome!! It IS a do not miss place in our country. I Loved it, and can't wait to return!
The stench of unwashed hippie, overbearing patchouli and sour dopehead sweat will gag you several yards before you reach the drum Circle of Filth. 😁
The footage of Annabell dancing in the drum circle made me laugh really hard. Thank you.👍
Asheville is actually a combination of very Christian and anti-Christian people all at the same time. Remember, this is where Billy Graham is from, and they have a wealth of churches and Christian radio stations. But they also have a huge element of wiccan and the occult as well, which we discovered one time when we found ourselves staying the night there on Halloween. Something I wouldn't recommend.
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Billy Graham isn’t originally from Asheville. He’s a native of Charlotte, N.C. He and wife Ruth built their home there in the early years of his ministry.
While watching this video I was quite disturbed. This world has just become really sad man
Optimus Rhymes That’s weird, it looked like a bunch of people having a good time and enjoying themselves to me. Im not really sure how this could’ve made anyone sad
Optimus Rhymes you wouldn’t understand cuz ur not from Asheville
It’s all “fun & games” until the players suddenly realize they can’t make ends meet/ survive.
Then the crap hits the proverbial rotator, or the streets.
Then everyone is off to the next “greener pasture” to go ruin it too.
Starting with the ones with the money that fueled the fun who run like the hypocrites they are. The well-healed yuppie types. Then those still somewhat mobile.
The businesses will close.
The real jobs will be gone.
What’s left is a mess of humanity & poverty.
Witness current Venice Beach.
All fun until it wasn’t.
Now a nightmare.
Hahaha We have those in the old closed up river in Valencia Now a way to travel throughout the City, among gardens, benches, traffic free. It is so much fun to drink whilst pedaling in group Laughter assured Love it
I grew up in Hollywood got the heck outa there. Love the mountains of NC as a fly fisherman but I don’t go to Asheville on less I have to . If ya wanna know what Hollywood blvd is like? Just go to Asheville same madness same principalities and powers.
I am glad I saw this video thank you because I was actually looking to move to the Asheville area. Thank God I saw this video I will
stay far from Asheville.
Thank you we already have more than our share of idiots here.
NC is different from the beaches to the mts and everywhere in between. Different cultures and people. Nothing like Asheville, a world unto itself.
+D H oh yeah we are all idiots who just sit around drinking and smoking and robbing people 😒. Wait... If I'm not r to stupid to remember, I think that the Wright brothers(who came from NC) m aD e and flew the first plane... So maybe you should do a history check before you call us idiots. And if you want you can tell that to my sister who is a straight A student and who also happens to be a black belt in karate. And if your to scared to then you need to go get a life
Lol
@Jeff Goodman why the bible?
Asheville was actually voted the number one most beautiful place to visit in america by good morning america in 2011. i live here and i can definitely say its much more that "dirty hippies"lol. we actually have the largest privately owned residence in America, along with some amazing views :)
julia willett There was also a scientific study were they found that Asheville is the happiest place in America.....for real!
+The Carpetbagger I can believe that, what a fun town! if we didn't take ourselves so seriously, the world would be a better place. @ 4:00 ...the ol' plastic thumb trick (I've still got one in the drawer somewhere) I used to play that trick in bars; and make peoples money disappear.... mostly the reaction was good....mostly :)
+ObsoleteOddity Honestly, I didn't know how he did it until you just explained it :)
It's a good cheap trick, most people can't figure it out, but once you know, you can spot the fake thumb, lol
+julia willettThere are too many crop circles in the Asheville area.
As a Native of NC I love Asheville now if you want sin city in this state check out Fayetteville NC. A military town with a history of crime.
It's like a hillbilly version of San Francisco.
LOL
Oh ashville!
The Portland Oregon of the south!!
Cesspool of Sin? So, this is how you spend your time and money.
I'm a originally from NC Madison county area and my daddy used to work for mission hospital n everyone there call Asheville " Hell Town'
Dana H. Ledford lol Madison County
Yeah Madison county is just poor Asheville atleast has a economy
The most frightening thing about this video was the guy with the mutton chops walking around filming him self almost as much as showing the city lol
What's the name of the senator who called it that?? We have a vacation cabin there for 50 years....my second favorite city to visit.
Ever wanted to live in a place where Atheists, Buddhists, Muslims, Christians, and Catholics, and perhaps some strange combination of all the above can all live in harmony? Asheville might be your place. I don't see it as a "cesspool of sin", just a city that has a different vibe than say Atlanta, Charlotte, Raleigh, Nashville, etc.
+CaptainJack88 Don't forget wiccans as well, and I agree, Asheville is awesome
I agree, I would love to live in Asheville if it wasn't so expensive.
I appreciate what you say, Asheville is a very, very liberal city that allows everyone to do their own thing. In this day and age. Just let people be that People. It is like my Nephew say. Excuse the word: " What You eat don't make me $%#@&^&" I know you can guess what he said(Vulgar). Take care.
Believe it or not, but Asheville is much cheaper than Chapel Hill, NC.
byron stevens and from my experience (although it was a while ago since i've been in chapel hill) people in asheville are nicer and more laid back. in chapel hill and raleigh you get a lot of people that seem to be trying REALLY hard to be chill. asheville people tend not to care. this isn't always the case though.. there are awesome people and annoying people in both places
I spent a week at the Grove Park Inn while on a business trip to Asheville and had one of the best times of my life: I've dined at Maxim's in Paris, spent a couple of nights at Treetops Lodge in Kenya and toasted The Little Mermaid in Copenhagen Harbor with akvavit and a bunch of friends on New Years Eve, 1967, so I am somewhat jaded and my standards are high--the Grove Park was right up there.
Just reading the comments is pretty disturbing. Stay in your little cocoons were everyone is just like you and all will be fine. Some find that boring.
Rumor has it you can smell that town from 200 miles away.
Rumor confirmed!
Add homeless n you got Portland Oregon
Hands down, the COOLEST city in the South!
I seen Abby the spoon lady! I was just watching her videos earlier. Pretty cool lady.
If you love Asheville, you will be welcome there. I haven't been back for 7 years but recognized friends in this video.
Are you sure your not in Portland OR .
That's true...all the same things in downtown Portland OR. Also, the legal weed in Portland is a magnet for the homeless. You can chart the pot hobo migration from the east coast to Colorado, Oregon, and Washington State. Also, I would bet that Portland has more suburban zombie RV dwellers.
The worst part is the housing has become so expensive there it is out of the reach of many of the artists that it attracts. I love your sarcasm!
5:39 "Need more cowbell!!"
Proud to live and be from this unique place. Asheville
Stephen King wrote a book about this place! NEEDFUL THINGS....
Send in the dogs
Jeff Goodman I'm sure your a liberal
@Jeff Goodman you need to move out of your moms basement, stop making pointless youtube comments, and maybe even get a job.
Asheville has enough dogs already, the gutter punks use them to get sympathy while panhandling.
my kind of place. i like weird and cool things, while others would hate it.