Linville is a bit misleading, Linville proper is a totally destitute tourist town with some caverns and a falls. The real neighborhood his Grandfather Mountain which doesn't give any property tax income to the local municipality because they're incorporated as their own municipality. They have their own cops and a school so they don't have to give any money to educating the poors who live at the foot of the mountain.

Also right by Boone which is the home of the East Coast's #1 stoner college App State