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11 Signs You're From Western North Carolina

Your home is across the Blue Ridge Mountains.

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11 Signs You're From Western North Carolina

1. Fall is one of your favorite seasons.

Actually, all seasons are your favorite season. The mountains have a way of making every season beautiful, especially autumn. Fall anywhere else just doesn't compare to the crisp cool air and the mountains covered in reds and oranges.

2. You consider eastern style barbecue a disgrace.

Vinegar is not a sauce.

3. Asheville is considered a big city.

WNC has so many small towns, each with their own charm. However, you oftentimes have to go to Asheville to buy certain things that are not offered in your small town. Driving 30 minutes to the mall is normal.

4. People who aren't from WNC ask if Boone and Asheville are the same place.

You then proceed to show them a map.

5. When you tell people where you're from, they list off names of people that are from the mountains.

Their friend lives in Yancey County and since you live in Macon, you must know them. In all fairness to their friend they probably just tell people that they are from Asheville because no one has heard of the town almost two 2 hours away.

6. You love to drive on the parkway.

The Blue Ridge Parkway is a great way to go into town with a view. Nearly every turn takes your breath away, and you never get tired of it.

7. You had Chacos before they were cool.

This might justify the stereotype that people from the mountains are hipsters, but whatever. Chacos are, and always have been, your go-to shoe.

8. People ask you if you have been to the Biltmore Estate and Tupelo Honey.

Only everyone who has made it through the fifth grade has been to the Biltmore House. You might have even had your prom on the Estate. Now that Tupelo Honey is a chain, you are a little bit proud to have grown up going to the original, however it annoys you that Tupelo is the only awesome independent restaurant anyone seems to ask you about.

9. You had to buy a cell signal booster for your house.

Without it you'd probably have to send telegrams to your friends.

10. You've been to more festivals and farmers' markets than you can count.

Given, your parents probably dragged you to most of them, but now that you're older you actually kind of enjoy going.

11. You're proud of where you're from.

Even though your life may have taken you away from your mountains, you love that people think you are cool just because of where you grew up. It's genuinely flattering when people have an interest in your hometown, whether they know where it is or not.

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