The upper foothills of western North Carolina are exceptionally comfortable, and just about everything is convenient for us on the eastern slopes of the Blue Ridge mountains. Comprehensive health care is moments away, all the necessities can be found right here. There are so many great things around, it is just plain fun to explore the area.

From Rutherford County, anything you might want to do is an hour and a half or less in driving distance. We’re talking white water sports, water or snow skiing, touring the Biltmore, shopping in Asheville, walking the ridge of Roan Mountain, standing at the highest point east of the Mississippi on Mount Mitchell, driving along the gorgeous Blue Ridge Parkway, or taking a dinner cruise on beautiful Lake Lure.

Sounds great, doesn’t it? We have it good, and want to share it with you. Friendly, salt-of-the-earth people live here. They’re cheerful and will go a country mile to help a neighbor. Walk into the old hardware store and strike up a conversation, or stroll down to the library and pick up an old book to read on your front porch. We have good restaurants, great people, gentle land, nice weather and good times.

What will you miss, realistically, if you leave the city? We don’t have opera, a large multiplex cinema, a convention center, a hundred acre shopping mall. We also don’t have roads turning into parking lots with traffic. We don’t have gangs, graffiti, and sirens wailing everyday. We don’t have city lights dimming your view of the stars, and we don’t have a video arcade.

Shake off the city hassles and come enjoy small town living. It is as quiet, quaint and as peaceful as you’ve always heard it was.