Well, WLOS, the local ABC TV station keeps trying to promote Asheville as some glorious place only the angels could invent! It's not.. it's often a hostile, unsafe place to walk around, or visit! I was walking downtown the other nite and this guy throws this big backpack right in front of my face across the sidewalk to a lot nearby! He didn't even say I'm sorry, or watch out, or anything! Had I been there 2 seconds earlier, he could of hit me in the face with it!
We went into a local nightclub the other night. Now I like the decor and location but whenever I go into that place, I'm always treated like pond scum! I was dressed nicely. Had on a new top, and clean pants. The bartender, when I asked the drink specials, was so unpleasant and unfriendly, I wanted to run out of the place that minute! Wow.. and the waitresses are always these young 20 somethings, rail thin and dressed as minimally as possible!
Why not try hire a 'friendly" nice personable bartender, and older waitresses for a change, Usual Suspects? They always make you feel in this town, that if you are NOT in your 20s, you shouldn't even be stepping into a nightclub in the first place!
Asheville has become so cliquey and unfriendly in the past few years, it's pitiful! I remember all these great clubs they used to have in A-ville. Be Here Now, 45 Cherry Street, Cowboy's on Tunnel Road, great bands, low drink prices, good parking. None of these places even exist now. They took out Vincent's Ear a few years back, that was a shame too. Good place to chill.
Well, this city has gone to hell in a hand basket I'm sad to say, there's just a few spots here and there I even think of frequenting, but most times I don't have enough money to even walk in the door!
Par for the course in Asheville. Don't try to find a job in this town. You will not get one, if you are not in your early 20s here or covered with tattoos & body piercings here! Very large age discrimination in this town, very large! They claim they have so much "DIVERSITY" here. What's so diverse about only liking or hiring only ONE type of person, Asheville, the new agers or counter culture folks? That's not diverse, that's discriminatory!
They had really good employees too at APBC for a time too. Now I cannot even get them to even notice you when you go to buy a ticket there! I often feel like I'm invisible walking around this town. I went in there for a movie this week, and this lady was standing in the aisle with this huge full glass of beer and almost walked right into me! She acted like she didn't even notice me and the lights were all on too! People are so rude & disrespectful and unaware of anyone but themselves here lately! What gives with that? Are they all on some kind of weird drug? It sures seems that way.. I've heard that many people in the town of Asheville take alot of strange prescription pills they were not even prescribed in the first place! Well, that accounts for all the strange behavior here then.... Bad enough to be a drunk.. and we certainly have lots of those in our town...but you can be a drunk or be drunk and be civil.
Another thing I notice too, is there is a plethora of really ugly guys coming to Asheville now! Is there some advertising campaign in some major city saying, "come to Asheville if you are a butt ugly man, you'll be very welcome here!"
Ugh.. is all I can say... they all act like they're something really special too.
Forget trying to meet a nice looking guy in the town of Asheville who's not attached! It will be impossible!
Wow, Asheville has become nothing but pack of liars lately! Don't keep advertising that this place is so friendly & welcoming when it's just the opposite!
I hate that for this place! You really ruined such a great town! Or maybe it was only a great town scenery wise, I don't know. I remember a friend, who's a local native said to me, 14 years ago, that Asheville had a bunch of arrogant jerks in it! I don't know.. I am not from here, but years ago, people sure seemed much nicer than they do now!
Never should of tried to make it a city! It's not cut out for that. The terrain, and the roads are way too narrow for that. The cops are so inexperienced or poorly trained, they don't know what to do with all the increasing crime that a huge population influx has caused!
People often ask me where to move to in Asheville. I always recommend they not move here at all, but move to another town. I hate to see people come here & then be forced out, cuz there are so FEW JOB OPPORTUNITIES in this area!
But people don't care here in Asheville! They will lie through their teeth to make a profit off someone else's misery or hard luck!
The city council ought to STOP all this development in the town for once & for all! They are turning this place in a garbage dump! Once you destroy all the forests in this town, they are going to take literally YEARS to grow back.
If you destroy all the beauty of a town, no one is going to want to stay here. Then what? How you going to sustain your "image" of a beautiful mountain town then? good luck with that, you fools!
Sunday, August 15, 2010
Saturday, August 14, 2010
another cool day out of Attitudeville, NC
haha... that's my new name for the AVL, NC town! LOL.. it's appropo given that most people nowadays in AVL seem to have this HUGE attitude problem.
It's funny, cuz I'll be so depressed hanging out in Attitudeville, and then leave town and keep meeting such nice people and having such great conversations out of town. People are really very polite and pleasant out of the town of AVL!
I was talking to one woman today in the grocery store and we both agreed how hectic AVL was getting to be, and how bad & dangerous the drivers in Asheville actually were.
She mentioned she had stopped at a stop sign and these kids in back of her, were beeping their horn over & over at her, trying to force her to go ahead. But the impending traffic made that reckless and dangerous and she just couldn't.
I told her that happens all the time in AVL! People just DON"T care about others' safety in the town of Asheville. That's just how it is! I have a landlord who ought to go in the hall of fame as the most negligent and dangerous landlord to have of all times.
We had a snake literally crawl up to the back steps over a month ago. When I suggested that he get some SNAKE AWAY to deter the snake, he insisted that if I wasn't "comfortable" with snakes coming up our back steps then we ought to just MOVE OUT!
I mean, what is it about Asheville, and the people from here? Is it their HOBBY to be mean as rattlesnakes and care only about themselves? It sure seems that way to me, and they LOVE to try intimidate and harass you to death!
What hateful people Asheville people are becoming. That was another thing the lady mentioned in the grocery store and I had to agree with her. I talked to the cashier and asked if she'd want to work at the AVL store and she said, "no way". I don't blame her. It's most unpleasant most of the time to shop at the AVL store, but it's more convenient so we do it.
I cannot say that I will ever miss living in AVL, because they are destroying the town's culture and its beauty.! I realized this when I pulled into a parking lot out of the county! It looked like a rainforest and was surrounded by jungle.
In Asheville, should someone sell their land to a developer, they will clearcut every single PLANT on their property! My god, they are turning that place into a parking lot!
Pretty soon, they won't have any rain coming to Asheville, cuz there will be no vegetation to attract it! It's such a tragedy!
I loved these mountains when I first moved here, for it was so remote and rugged land. But now... forget it.. they are trying to turn Asheville into a little Charlotte, but without any of CLT's advantages!
Charlotte is a cool city, many great places to go see concerts, go out.... etc... there's so many more jobs in CLT and the traffic & highway system is easy to navigate, even if you are visitor.
Asheville, not! Traffic is horrendous. This town was never made to be a big city! There's just not enough space on the roads for the cars to start with.... What they need to do is just start putting passenger trains in effect in Asheville, and not make it so necessary to have a car!
I like to walk around Asheville, but it's certainly not a pedestrian friendly city by any means! The drivers are dangerous and take no precautions to not try run you over! I told the woman in the grocery store that so many times, people will put your life at risk and you ALWAYS have to be on your toes, watching out for yourself when you leave your car!
How GREEN a city is that, if that's the case. It IS the case.
I also hate how they try to intimidate you into not speaking the truth about all the ills of this city! There are a TON of social ills in Asheville, but NO ONE wants to mention them.
I noticed, leaving the county, that even the local newspaper will actually speak the truth and tell of social problems. In Asheville forget it! You cannot even voice your opinion on a local forum for Asheville, the trolls will eat you alive.
Well, so much for these thoughts.
And even the local hospital Park Ridge was saying how predatory the Mission Hospital of Asheville is! They are so right! Mission Hospital treats you like crap in many cases if you are a patient. I once signed myself out, after checking into the ER because they had me in there for like 13 hours and I was about to pass out from lack of food! They told me, I could die, but I told my mom, well, I'd rather die at home than in that crummy hospital. My mom laughed in agreement!
Yeah.. and they've taken over ALL the Urgent care places, where once Park Ridge had a few. Park Ridge was nice to deal with, pleasant, efficient....treated you like a person, not like dirt!
Well, that's getting par for the course for Attitudeville.
Maybe I should do up some bumper stickers.. Attitudeville Sucks! hehehe.. i bet they'd sell like hotcakes! lol
well au revoir
It's funny, cuz I'll be so depressed hanging out in Attitudeville, and then leave town and keep meeting such nice people and having such great conversations out of town. People are really very polite and pleasant out of the town of AVL!
I was talking to one woman today in the grocery store and we both agreed how hectic AVL was getting to be, and how bad & dangerous the drivers in Asheville actually were.
She mentioned she had stopped at a stop sign and these kids in back of her, were beeping their horn over & over at her, trying to force her to go ahead. But the impending traffic made that reckless and dangerous and she just couldn't.
I told her that happens all the time in AVL! People just DON"T care about others' safety in the town of Asheville. That's just how it is! I have a landlord who ought to go in the hall of fame as the most negligent and dangerous landlord to have of all times.
We had a snake literally crawl up to the back steps over a month ago. When I suggested that he get some SNAKE AWAY to deter the snake, he insisted that if I wasn't "comfortable" with snakes coming up our back steps then we ought to just MOVE OUT!
I mean, what is it about Asheville, and the people from here? Is it their HOBBY to be mean as rattlesnakes and care only about themselves? It sure seems that way to me, and they LOVE to try intimidate and harass you to death!
What hateful people Asheville people are becoming. That was another thing the lady mentioned in the grocery store and I had to agree with her. I talked to the cashier and asked if she'd want to work at the AVL store and she said, "no way". I don't blame her. It's most unpleasant most of the time to shop at the AVL store, but it's more convenient so we do it.
I cannot say that I will ever miss living in AVL, because they are destroying the town's culture and its beauty.! I realized this when I pulled into a parking lot out of the county! It looked like a rainforest and was surrounded by jungle.
In Asheville, should someone sell their land to a developer, they will clearcut every single PLANT on their property! My god, they are turning that place into a parking lot!
Pretty soon, they won't have any rain coming to Asheville, cuz there will be no vegetation to attract it! It's such a tragedy!
I loved these mountains when I first moved here, for it was so remote and rugged land. But now... forget it.. they are trying to turn Asheville into a little Charlotte, but without any of CLT's advantages!
Charlotte is a cool city, many great places to go see concerts, go out.... etc... there's so many more jobs in CLT and the traffic & highway system is easy to navigate, even if you are visitor.
Asheville, not! Traffic is horrendous. This town was never made to be a big city! There's just not enough space on the roads for the cars to start with.... What they need to do is just start putting passenger trains in effect in Asheville, and not make it so necessary to have a car!
I like to walk around Asheville, but it's certainly not a pedestrian friendly city by any means! The drivers are dangerous and take no precautions to not try run you over! I told the woman in the grocery store that so many times, people will put your life at risk and you ALWAYS have to be on your toes, watching out for yourself when you leave your car!
How GREEN a city is that, if that's the case. It IS the case.
I also hate how they try to intimidate you into not speaking the truth about all the ills of this city! There are a TON of social ills in Asheville, but NO ONE wants to mention them.
I noticed, leaving the county, that even the local newspaper will actually speak the truth and tell of social problems. In Asheville forget it! You cannot even voice your opinion on a local forum for Asheville, the trolls will eat you alive.
Well, so much for these thoughts.
And even the local hospital Park Ridge was saying how predatory the Mission Hospital of Asheville is! They are so right! Mission Hospital treats you like crap in many cases if you are a patient. I once signed myself out, after checking into the ER because they had me in there for like 13 hours and I was about to pass out from lack of food! They told me, I could die, but I told my mom, well, I'd rather die at home than in that crummy hospital. My mom laughed in agreement!
Yeah.. and they've taken over ALL the Urgent care places, where once Park Ridge had a few. Park Ridge was nice to deal with, pleasant, efficient....treated you like a person, not like dirt!
Well, that's getting par for the course for Attitudeville.
Maybe I should do up some bumper stickers.. Attitudeville Sucks! hehehe.. i bet they'd sell like hotcakes! lol
well au revoir
Monday, August 2, 2010
There are no opportunities for no one over thirty nine here
This town is ridiculous! I absolutely HATE the way they insist we spend ALL our money at the local stores & businesses!
[b]Why should we? The local businesses never hire ME, or my friends![/b] Why should I give them my money?
The bad thing this town is NOT just the lack of jobs, it's the lack of people to be friends with. People are so shallow and fickle here. I cannot remember the last time I had a friend to go even see a movie with! Yeah, they're that self-centered.. They want you to do all this stuff for them, but they never bother to try to contact YOU, or see if you're ok or need help with anything!
They'll want to know ALL about you, and every single aspect of your personal life, but 2 weeks after meeting you, they cannot even BOTHER to answer a simple phone call!
That's a friend? I doubt it.... Well, I'm just tired of wasting ALL my time in this damn area of the world. The deep south SUCKS, let's face it. Low wages, loose morals, cut-throat people who swear up & DOWN they are FULL of hospitality. Fuck that Asheville, you're full of hostility, not hospitality. A friendly person does NOT need to know ALL your business in order to make you a friend. That's just being nosey.
I don't know.. I know so many people with good credentials who are highly talented but still, at the age of 50 & up, they STILL need to have roommates, cuz they cannot afford their homes or rentals by themselves! That's ridiculous, but that speaks VOLUMES on how BAD the economy in Asheville actually is. That's true for most of Buncombe county. An expensive place to live, with very few opportunities!
I don't know WHY they tout this place as so great.. well, the views are nice, but if you are living as a pauper or on a shoestring, you're not really goign to be noticing all the "great views" out there. You'll be more worried about your own survival, and if you are smart, so you SHOULD be!
Asheville sucks big time when it comes to decent paying jobs! They also treat like absolutely DIRT here. I remember being assaulted on the first day of a new job and they just stuck up left & right for the arrogant black queer who hit me, and the guy was way over 6 feet tall! Nice town, yeah, right! in your dreams.
[b]Why should we? The local businesses never hire ME, or my friends![/b] Why should I give them my money?
The bad thing this town is NOT just the lack of jobs, it's the lack of people to be friends with. People are so shallow and fickle here. I cannot remember the last time I had a friend to go even see a movie with! Yeah, they're that self-centered.. They want you to do all this stuff for them, but they never bother to try to contact YOU, or see if you're ok or need help with anything!
They'll want to know ALL about you, and every single aspect of your personal life, but 2 weeks after meeting you, they cannot even BOTHER to answer a simple phone call!
That's a friend? I doubt it.... Well, I'm just tired of wasting ALL my time in this damn area of the world. The deep south SUCKS, let's face it. Low wages, loose morals, cut-throat people who swear up & DOWN they are FULL of hospitality. Fuck that Asheville, you're full of hostility, not hospitality. A friendly person does NOT need to know ALL your business in order to make you a friend. That's just being nosey.
I don't know.. I know so many people with good credentials who are highly talented but still, at the age of 50 & up, they STILL need to have roommates, cuz they cannot afford their homes or rentals by themselves! That's ridiculous, but that speaks VOLUMES on how BAD the economy in Asheville actually is. That's true for most of Buncombe county. An expensive place to live, with very few opportunities!
I don't know WHY they tout this place as so great.. well, the views are nice, but if you are living as a pauper or on a shoestring, you're not really goign to be noticing all the "great views" out there. You'll be more worried about your own survival, and if you are smart, so you SHOULD be!
Asheville sucks big time when it comes to decent paying jobs! They also treat like absolutely DIRT here. I remember being assaulted on the first day of a new job and they just stuck up left & right for the arrogant black queer who hit me, and the guy was way over 6 feet tall! Nice town, yeah, right! in your dreams.
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