ONTD Original: The Biltmore Estate, the Vanderbilts, and Hollywood

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The Biltmore Estate might be America's largest private home and a tourist destination visited by over one million visitors to the Asheville, North Carolina area each year, but its connections to Hollywood, the film industries, and a few well-known celebrities via a now mostly broke old money dynasty run deeply. A full deep dive into its legacy and

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[theoryofwar]

My first apartment was in Asheville! It was really close to Biltmore. I miss that apartment so much 😭

[squirrels_oh_no]

And now it probably rents for 5x as much as it did when you were there LMAO - Asheville is now unaffordable.

[theoryofwar]

I went to see the prices, since no apartment has the same layout, it's a bit different, but wow yeah. I think mine was 600-700 a month? It was a studio, but fairly big. The 1 bedrooms go from 1400 to 2005. Why can't things be affordable?

[cleanofslate]

were you in east asheville? i used to live in verde vista, literally like 4 minutes from the biltmore gates. biltmore village is my favorite part of asheville.

[theoryofwar]

I did! I lived in Kenilworth Inn, I googled and we would have lived about 3 miles away. Hi neighbor!

I miss that apartment so much. It reminded me of the Overlook hotel lol