Boston is a great town. I enjoyed living off Mass Ave. between MIT and Harvard back in the mid 2000's. Congrats on getting back there! I love to travel. Mainly because I get exposed to so many cool new things.. Moving is a lot like traveling, basically like a super extended travelling experience on a deeper level. When moving from Tallahassee to Atlanta for college I was awoken to all that a "big city" had to offer....more culture, more diversity, more public transportation, more places to do things after dark and into the wee hours of the morning. When moving to Atlanta to Boston, I discovered you could do even more things after dark and into the wee hours of the morning, especially if you were in China Town...good times. Moving to cold climates made me realize that I'm only compatible with the warmer climates for the long haul. External things that you don't have control over, I came to realize, are a huge consideration for laying down your roots. To me cold is pain. To my wife heat is pain. So we met in the middle in moderate North Carolina. And since there are some cool folks in the area (back at you thenewgreen) it's easy to be like the Fonz and make the most of where I am and who I'm with.
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.