Cary made the list... interesting... seeing as how it's right next to Raleigh, which I had always understood to be a pretty mean place.
Asheville is, at least as far as I can tell, a pretty safe place- there's only a few areas of the city I would not recommend someone going after dark, and that would only be if they were white. I like it here

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She answers hard acrostics, has a pretty taste for paradox
She quotes in elegiacs all the crimes of Heliogabalus
In conics she can floor peculiarities parabolous
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