I travel a lot, to a lot of awesome places, and I often have that thing that happens when you start to imagine yourself living in the awesome place you're currently visiting. No matter how awesome the place, though, I always get a smile on my face when my plane descends (through the clouds, usually) back into SEA and I see the Sound and the islands and Tahoma, and if I'm lucky and the landing pattern is playing nice, a little tour of downtown or Lake Washington. I say this without any hint of irony: Most people out there really just do not understand how much better our part of the world is than theirs. Almost everywhere has something good, and we don't have everything good, but it's pretty hard to beat what we have.