Paul WilczynskiPaul 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 200, 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. Read More Read Less