[Source: Internal Revenue Service and the Asheville Area Chamber of Commerce]

Floridians are buying up homes in North Carolina. This map of the United States shows the top 100 in-migration "source counties" to Buncombe County, North Carolina -- home to Asheville -- from 1997 to 2005.

As shown, Florida has brought more people to North Carolina's city of Asheville and surrounding communites than any other state.