NC Mountain Towns You Can Actually Afford to Live In

Join me to explore 5 NC Mountain Towns that you MUST visit! These affordable towns could be your next home or vacation home!

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Ellen Pitts
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[EllenPitts]

I'm currently working on a video about super cheap mountain towns!! I know prices have gotten high so I am trying to find some places that are both beautiful and have lots to do but where you can still find affordable housing. Please let me know if there is anything in particular that is important to you in a town or a community! I would love to include your ideas in my next video!

[susanzipf]

I guess for a realtor, these are "affordable" towns.
For those of us who are NOT in the top 5%, these places are stupid expensive.
Candler, Sylva, Bryson City, Monroe - these are towns where you can still actually own a home bigger than a storage shed on a postage stamp sized lot.
Why would you think that a secretary, a school teacher, warehouse worker, or some other normal job call a $500, 000 house affordable??

[naz]

How you going to have a video of towns you can afford to live in and your first place has a average home price over 500K? That's not affordable for majority of people.

[kduncan]

This chick is actually OUT OF TOUCH! I live in North Carolina and this video is geared towards the rich!

[karjurassic]

Well, I certainly couldn’t afford to live in any of these communities, but I made a very wise decision in the last recession to purchase a little mountain getaway (bank owned) for $79, 900!
It’s currently worth approximately 3 times what I paid for it.
Perhaps for the average person, waiting until the next recession might be a better option ( and it may be here sooner than we think).

[bryanbennett]

Asheville was a nice place many years ago. Now it is like going to a small San Francisco. People laying around and sleeping everywhere. Not safe to go out at night if you are a family with children. Even some places aren't pleasant during the Day if you have children. There are a lot of people smoking weed in the Parks and what we used to call Hippies are everywhere.
There are a couple of nicer Block Areas for couples and friends to go for some good meals and a Beer or three but as I said it is not for families anymore, other than just going to Biltmore(Family Environment) so they can see that.

[angelatownsend]

These nice little mountain towns are expensive and everybody and their grandmother is trying to move here. We probably don't have to guess what crowd our realtor is catering to.

[saxahainerz]

Over half a million is affordable???? I think someone has lost touch with the regular folk!

[volsonrockytop]

I'm glad you didn't talk about the greatest small city in all of North Carolina, we'd like to keep it that way!

[RAlex-ersm]

I was born and raised and still live in NC. We are a dying breed for sure. Most of the people in these areas are rich move-ins that are ruining our heritage. They move in and change our politics and run up the prices on all the real estate. They’re also very “snooty”. My family always use to go to the mountains every year, but now we can’t afford it anymore and they always make us feel like we don’t belong. Wish we had our old NC back.

[keithpeele]

I live in NC and have been to all these places and yes they are great but not affordable to live in unless you are rich or retired with a lot of money. There is not the jobs for locals to support these prices it is the same where I live on the coast.

[chri]

I guess it's all perspective, but I live 40 minutes east of blowing rock and it's where rich folks retire. Come down the mountain to Wilkesboro where the homes are less than half as expensive, and the shops are actually open

[SmyrnaApostolicMission]

I love the mountains and love a real winter (lived in the Green Mts of Vermont for 16 months), but I have to give you a "bless your heart" on the affordable part 😂

[vickieellenburg]

Realtors are a scourge in our beautiful, once peaceful and serene Appalachian mountains.

[angelastewart]

She said a place you can afford… who did she have in mind ? Will smith. 700.000 homes the lowest 500

[AustinthGenTexan]

Just changed my plans to retire to a small town of 13k in East Texas (my hometown, actually). Had to radically rethink it.
It has a decent newer, hospital - very close to the house I own there. But other than a weekly potluck dinner and dance at the county singles center (mostly a lonely hearts club / find a new wife venue) and church activities, there's not much on offer. This is especially true if you have no children or grandchildren nearby. If you plan to age in place and stay at home, you must consider the time when you can no longer drive - then you're stuck in the 'burbs. No public transport system, no reliable taxi service, no Uber and no Lyft. Although I could sell my house in Austin for a fortune right now, I have to consider the quality of life once I'm a bit older. A large city has the resources and infrastructure for old people.
Retirement communities are too homogenized - besides: I don't want to live with only old people as neighbors. 😼

[danielmoore]

You honestly believe $750K is affordable? Maybe to Karen &

[beckywhitt]

You missed the jewel of Little Switzerland, The Big Lynn Lodge. 102 year old Blue Ridge Parkway Inn. Some couples and families go there year after year.

[briancarroll]

Yeah, let’s bring more people into Boone and Blowing Rock to build more condominiums on the peaks of our beautiful mountains.

[ModoNayr]

AFFORDABLE! Excuse me why I go in a state of depression!