I live now in a whole different world never mind country. I'm about an hour north of Boston (Southern New Hampshire) were I was born & bred (thick in the arm & thick in the head). what I miss that you can't come close to getting up here (or anywhere else, well maybe, but most won't admit it) are the drinking spots that are best discribed as "kick 'm & kill 'm joints, lively most of the time. Never has there been a place on earth that's so level (Boston was built on 7 hills, What A Joke) & has so many crooked streets to navigate. You couldn't find a bunch of more determined drivers that are out to make the start of your day, getting around those former cowpaths) more memorable (unless that's where you come from). I really miss the world war 2 style housing projects were everyone knew that you were doing what, to who, when they were getting it from them. And they're really the only people in the states that talk the talk & walk the walk in such a way that everyone else is asking what the hell did he just do & what the hell did he say about it. And mostly everyone knows where you're from when you're somewhere else & they say "hey, you talk like a Kennedy" when there's not a soul in the state never mind the city that talks like a Kennedy and got away without taking one terrible beating for talking like that unless they are a Kennedy which in that case all of Boston well buy 'em a drink (just to watch them fall down drunk, great Boston pasttime). And where else can people drown on the city streets in molasses or get to amass at midnight just to see 10,000 people, in trenchcoats & sunglasses, try to catch an opening of a James Bond flick & have the streets riot when the party got to be to big. And the rest of you dare to talk food, why we have the Boston Baked Bean & New England Chowda, you couldn't get a pig to eat some of that shit & the Scrod (Special Catch ????? Of the Day) & the Spud (Society for the Prevention of Undernourished Diets). And lastly the unforgettable smell in the air, as a storm starts to brew, of salt air & water rat. Well these things I haven't been able to find anywhere else, so that's why I just can't face the chance of ever moving to far away. I hope I didn't make the rest of you to jealous. Barry