Smoke and ash moving into Sacramento and Bay Area

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8. I'm seriously exporing going back to

Western NC where I grew up. Have been here on the Central CA Coast for 43 years, but last year being socked in by fires to the North and South, and having a bag packed, has me edgy. The drought is insane and won't be getting better. I'm safer than most, but ...

Pros for here: medical care (have an uncommon cancer and love all my docs!), climate (my windows and sliders are open from April through Oct pretty much w/ no A/C needed, just fresh air), hard to throw a rock and hit a conservative

Pros for Asheville: cost of living (prices have exploded but still can get more there than I have here), deep roots, seasons (summer sucks on the East Coast though), rain!, thunderstorms!, not as conservative as much of NC