My Return to New York City

I will be back in NYC at the end of next week for  this NYU Wagner School event and a friday talk at the Environmental Defense Fund.  While the temperature in New York is 45 degrees cooler than what I'm used to, I'm still looking forward to participating in these events and seeing my family.

I understand that the Northeast corridor (Boston,NYC, Washington DC) is an exciting place to be but I remain convinced that Los Angeles is heaven.   The right test of this claim is to contact the ex-UCLA faculty who have left for other schools such as Michigan, Yale, Texas, Washington Univ, Penn, and Duke and ask them how much they miss LA.  Have their new destinations offered them a higher quality of life than what they had in Los Angeles?  I strongly doubt it.