For all Y'all who have been wondering about the cripticity of my explination of where my Location is:
Asheville NC (now y'all can stalk me!)
and yes, I do love where I live! AVL is a big city (for me) and has a funky eclectic downtown with a lot of neat shops, all with nice people in them (except for Tops for Shoes- they're a bunch of bastards who won't give you the time of day unless you look like a 50 year old yuppie woman who has a Burberry umbrealla and Channel glasses /rant) and there's lots of um... interesting people wandering downtown to say the least. Esp. on north Lexington street. But I've never felt threatened or intimidated by anyone here, which is nice.
AVL also has
UNC-Asheville , pop 3000 or so students, and it's small, public, and liberal arts. Plus it's got my
Multimedia Arts and Sciences major, which is major fun for me! I love this school, tho the buildings look a little like 70's mental institution. The teachers are all awesome, I've never had a teacher who was an exception to this rule. They're all really nice and really willing to help students if they need it.
There's also the obligatory "strip" which has the mall, the Kmart, the Wal-mart (biggest one in the world, baby!), the Lowe's, the Target, and so on, and It's nice that all those places are right next to each other within about three miles. I don't have to scurry about town to go shopping at the big places, since they're all right next to each other.
AND there's a GAZILLION different resturants in AVL and the surrounding area, all ranging in price and type of cuisine, but for the most part all are really really good. Thus the "Paris of the west" for all the resturants.
AND of course, the surrounding area. We've got the French Broad River running right through town, and tons of places to go rafting, canoeing, kayaking, etc. And there's the Blue Ridge Parkway, also running right through town. And there's the mountians, everywhere, with tons of hiking, camping, FLY-FISHING!!! (my favorite), and the outdoorsy stuff.
About the only thing I don't like about AVL is the way the smog blows in from TN and settles over the city, which makes it hazy about 7 out of 10 days in the summertime. Damn coal burning TN!
ShaniFaye- you're more than welcome to come and visit sometime!!!
