Re: Moving to Minnesota

[http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert (Robert)]

Wow.  Minnesota.  Noelle's cousin lives in MN, too, these days.

I guess Lisa comes from MN?  Noelle is a native Can.  I don't
think she could go back to the snow of the east at this point.  And I
certainly do not miss snow :-).

Re: weather.  According to

http://www.weatherbase.com/weather/weather.php3?s=773712

I guess it gets colder in the winter and hotter in the summer than Boston
(http://www.weatherbase.com/weather/weather.php3?s=090527 ).  'Though,
honestly, weather in Boston was never the problem.  I suspect St. Paul
will be much better in that regard.

Re: jobs.  There are probably a number of high-tech jobs there.  I know
that Netperceptions used to be there (similar to the technology Amazon
uses for its recommendations), but apparently they no longer exist :-(.

I don't know if you know, but So_ny laid me off and now, for the last
month, I'm working at this outfit in Mountain View (Tell_me.com).  I feel
conflicted about it.  I really enjoy the work, but I feel much more stress
here than I did at So_ny.  There's an air of laid-back-ed-ness, but beneath
the surface is cut-throat competition.  I'm trying my best not to get
sucked into it.  It's hard.

There's one great advantage to Minnesota.  If you need to escape this
screwed up country, Canada is that much closer.  And you'll be used to the
weather, too :-).

 > From: Mike Abbott <http://www.comcast.net/~mja63>
 > Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2006 00:54:46 -0700 (PDT)
 >
 > Lisa and I are moving to Minnesota.  After the huge truck loads all of
 > our things about two weeks from now, the five of us (including our
 > cat) will pile into our minivan and drive 2,100 miles to St. Paul.
 > We'll rent an apartment until we find a house to buy.  Our repbot.org
 > mailing addresses should continue to work (mike or lisa at repbot.org)
 > but everything else will change a couple of times.
 > 
 > Why Minnesota?  Because we want our sons to experience things that are
 > not possible as long as we stay in Ca:  Our cabin, as a
 > central feature, every summer weekend.  Extended family.  Seasons.
 > Backyard nature.  Ca was a great place for us as singles and
 > as a young family, but we're feeling squeezed as our boys grow.  We
 > co-own a cabin on a lake in Minnesota with Lisa's sister, who lives
 > not too far away.  Simon and Evan enjoy visiting her and exploring
 > there more than they can cram into a single two-week summer vacation.
 > And letting the boys really experience snow far outweighs its
 > inconvenience to us adults.  Lisa and I both grew up with snow and we
 > miss it.
 > 
 > I'll continue to work for Yahoo for a while, remotely.  We'll see how
 > permanent telecommuting works out.
 > 
 > Stay in touch, you betcha.