Thanks! That's a nice stretch of Cambridge to be located in. I used to live by Davis, but man, that area is blowing up. It used to be cheap and no one would make the trip, but now I probably can't even afford my old place. Personally, I'm with you. I do not like the cold. All the cold resistance I had as a child has melted away and now that Fall is in the air again, eyeing the weird scarf my aunt knit for me (with matching hat, naturally). The urge to lay down roots is something that's been tugging at me recently, but that may be because I find that lots of my friends are getting married or having kids, which means all of their socializing is done with people who just got married or are having kids. This human thing, it's like a virus I tell you. It's pretty interesting to me that lots of the people I know don't seem to acknowledge those external things you mentioned. Lots of little Ayn Rands running around, thinking that the world is an oyster and that no one ever eats a bad one.