I'm waaaay up on the Canadian border again, at the top of New York, between the St. Lawrence River (people! But mostly summer people) and the Adirondack Mountains (also people! But mostly summer people as well). It's where I grew up, lots of farms, lots of fields, lots of forests- very pretty and I like it a lot, but there's not a lot of culture unless you're willing to drive. And I was living in Toronto until relatively recently, so I've traded one of the most multicultural cities in the world for Bovine Utopia, where all those little ethnic restaurants I loved so much are replaced with A-1 Chinese Takeout.

But we have much weirder crime, so it's not all bad. *g*