There's no reason for a city to be there, just a stream and a broad Appalachian valley. But Joseph Anderson wanted a city, and in the 1850s he willed one from the ground after a railway company built its state-line terminus on his father-in-law's farmland. He named it, oddly, Bristol, after one of England's biggest ports. "Paradise" was his second choice. Now, after the decline of the area's timber and coal industries, paradise is what Bristol has left to sell. The city's cost of living is 20% below the national average. The mountains beckon, as does nascar's Bristol Motor Speedway. And Bristol offers what 87% of America's towns and counties lack: the optic-fibre internet.
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