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Yeah they only do the stable cafe dinner during the Christmas lights. The food is underwhelming especially for the price.Asheville was an hour from my medical school.
Had Thanksgiving at the Biltmore once. In the stables or something. An ice storm came in and I got to enjoy random people ****ing up other random people's cars in the parking lot. Breakfast at Waffle House was better.
Chilis is terrible for tacos. Their beer is domestic and cold. Nothing wrong with that.
I'd still rather live in Asheville than Boone though.I really like Tupelo Honey for food, but my favorite place is a bit out of town - Harvest Records. Great selection, friendly staff - definitely worth the trip for any records junkies like myself.
That said, I wouldn't want to live in Asheville these days. I think it peaked about 5-10 years ago.
Ahem. East North Carolina BBQ.Carolina barbecue is usually good.
Thanks for the replies everyone.
Headed back to Asheville tomorrow for round 2; hopefully with 50% less Ashe-Holes. Nightshift tonight. Stay tuned for the continued adventures next week.
You seem to be under some presumption that RF has any say in this...Just curious, but is it your preference to go on vacation right after a night shift? I'd be exhausted...
You seem to be under some presumption that RF has any say in this...
Just curious, but is it your preference to go on vacation right after a night shift? I'd be exhausted...
Pretty spot on right here.@RustedFox - I think you hit the nail on the head with the homeless adjacent activity. I felt like there were a lot of people living in rich mommy and daddy’s basement at night while trying to look homeless during the day. It didn’t feel like a weird city as much as it felt like a city that wanted so, so badly to be weird. Like, we’re weird....I mean...can’t you tell....please like me!????
If you want a little different type of experience than a cabin, try to Grand Bohemian hotel across from the Biltmore. One of the nicest hotels and guest experiences I’ve had. It was like 5 years ago and could have changed, but it was amazing. Greeted by name when I walked in. They knew it was our anneversary and upgraded our room to the room right across the hall since they knew we had a coupes massage scheduled so we wouldn’t have to change back to real clothes. Truly a great experience. Plus, they had a moonshine oldfashioned.
So, we went to Asheville...And when we got to “town square” we found literally dozens of “crust punks” who had decided that town square was now their bedroom/bathroom/kitchen/etc. Seriously, the entire “downtown square” was overrun with homeless folks who were busy conducting homeless folk business. It was like a Wall Street for homeless people, or people who were semi-domiciled and wanted to otherwise be involved with the business that homeless people are involved in.
Congratulations...you've passed the prerequisite course to visit San Francisco.
If you do go to San Francisco just make sure you either pack some thick boots you don't care about or download "SnapCrap," their human-feces-on-the-street poop-locator app. Don't question, just download. You'll thank me, later.
"'SnapCrap' app invites San Francisco residents to report poop on city streets"
Edit: App download temporarily taken down because the app icon was too triggering. I mean, Apple should be triggered. This is their own town, for Pete's sake. But don't worry, the app is soon to be back up for download, apparently with a more PC icon that candy coats the fact that SF is covered in 24,456 piles of human feces, and counting.
Yes, they feel their policies are "doing good." Their excuse for their catastrophically failed policies, is always the same, that, "We need more of them."Do these permissive social justice types really feel that their policies are doing good on the whole?
Yes, they feel their policies are "doing good." Their excuse for their catastrophically failed policies, is always the same, that, "We need more of them."
It's not at all a preference, it's just the way the cookie crumbled both of these times. Flight left at 4pm today, so I slept from 6a to 1p, which was just fine.
Policies that lead to streets covered in human poo.What policies are you referring to?
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Policies that lead to streets covered in human poo.
Yes, I assumed that was what you were referencing. My question is, what policies does SF enact that "lead to streets covered in human poo"?
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- Generous social services benefits which attract homeless
- Non-prosecution of public urination/defecation
- Allowance of loitering/tresspassing/squating on private and public property
- Inadequate public sanitation
- High housing costs due to NIMBY policies which drive people to be homeless
Workhouses, like in a Charles Dickens novel would solve a lot of the homeless problems. That and bringing back Sanitariums for the chronically mentally ill who refuse to be compliant with meds.
Workhouses, like in a Charles Dickens novel would solve a lot of the homeless problems. That and bringing back Sanitariums for the chronically mentally ill who refuse to be compliant with meds.
The problem with liberals is that they don't hold people to accountability.
Rather than argue your salient points (and I don't have a dog in this fight other than I really like California wines and often end up starting and ending in SF), my rebuttal would be "why don't other cities have as bad of a problem as SF"?I am open to ideas more than you may believe.
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Rather than argue your salient points..., my rebuttal would be "why don't other cities have as bad of a problem as SF"?
I would be happy (probably not the right word) to hear about other cities that have had similar outcomes.
I'm not sure LA and SD are that different politically than SF though.
I don't have a dog in this fight. It wasn't my accusation. I was just asking for more information.
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That said, the politics in San Diego are very far from those in SF. San Diego may not be Trump country or god-fearing Alabama, but traditional conservatives have great power and the Republican party there (including the mayor's office, for years) would laugh at the suggestion that SJWs or "progressives" are directing policy.
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Too bad B1 Bob Dornan is gone.