I hear you about the mountains and streams; it ain't Calgon that will take you away, mmmmm, but the mountains and water.Heck, before AC, the mountains were playgrouds for men like Henry Ford; John D. Rockefeller, and bless him for giving half the money to buy up the land for the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
F. Scott Fitzerald lived at the Grove Park Inn in Asheville for two years, heck, Thomas Wolfe is from there, talked about his mother running a boarding house in "Look Homeward Angel" And, heck, you can go home again, and it IS in the mountains.