Don't Move To Asheville: A Ruthlessly Honest Guide That Will Ruin Everywhere Else - Softcover

Wilczynski, Paul

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798995501701

Publisher: TheSeniorTechie Press, 2026

Synopsis

Everyone told you to move to Asheville. You're already thinking about it. You've looked at the listings. You've watched the reels. You may have told people you're considering it.

Don't.

Don't Move to Asheville is the reverse-psychology relocation guide that takes the standard "here's why you'll love it" format and turns it inside out. Nine chapters. Nine reasons to stay put. None of them will work.

You'll learn about the food scene that earned two James Beard Awards and a Michelin Bib Gourmand in a city of 95,000 people. The outdoor access that puts world-class hiking, whitewater, and trout fishing within thirty minutes of downtown. The creative economy that attracted artists, brewers, musicians, and makers who arrived as visitors and couldn't make themselves leave.

It covers what you actually need to know: the hospital situation, the housing costs, the cost-of-living math, what happened after Hurricane Helene, and whether any of it is still worth it.

Spoiler: it is. Annoyingly.

Written by a reluctant Ashevillian since 2014, this is the honest guide that relocation books are too polite to write: funny, specific, and completely useless as a warning.

Consider yourself warned.

About this title

About the Authors

Paul Wilczynski was born in Chicago, which should have been his first warning about weather. He survived it anyway, then spent nearly four decades in Boston, which is essentially Chicago but with worse drivers and a self-congratulatory accent. In 2008, having finally lost patience with winter, he moved to Charleston, South Carolina, where he discovered that escaping one kind of miserable climate is not the same as finding a good one. Charleston was warm, which was the point. It was also approximately the surface temperature of the sun from May through September, with humidity that made the air feel less like something you breathe and more like something you wade through. He left in 2014. Asheville, it turned out, had figured out weather in a way that Boston and Charleston had conspicuously failed to do. For most of his working life, Paul was a software developer, which means he spent decades persuading computers to do things they didn't want to do. This turned out to be excellent preparation for moving to Asheville, where the variables are endless, the outcomes are unpredictable, and the mountains make you forget you were trying to optimize anything. He lives in Asheville with his wife Joan and has no current plans to leave, which for him is something close to a miracle.

Designer: Andrea Kulish Wilhelm. Imagine being surrounded only by things that are hand-made, created with love and inspired by spirit. Studio A is one such place where the vibrant artist and designer, Andrea creates Ukrainian pysanky eggs and mixed media art as well as her graphic design workAndrea creates pysanky using traditional Ukrainian patterns as well as her own modern designs. The creation of the eggs is very personal and meaningful to her because it is a tradition her mom passed down to her starting when she was only five years old. For her, the making of the eggs is both a way of expressing her creativity, connecting with her late Mom, who as an artist herself was a huge inspiration, and also a way to keep this rare Ukrainian folk tradition alive. It is a unique part in the mosaic of America's varied cultural heritage. Andrea is very excited to share the making of the eggs with people and will be doing live demos and workshops for those who want to dive deeper in the pysanky egg making artform.Andrea is very excited to be part of the River Arts District and draws inspiration from the rich and vibrant artist community. She is eager to continue making her contributions as a member of this community and grateful for the opportunity to share her work.

Edition details

• Publisher: TheSeniorTechie Press
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798995501701
• Binding: Paperback
• Illustrator: Kulish Wilhelm Andrea
• Number of pages: 236