A Californian (who else at 6:45 EST Friday?) e-mails:

The USDA completed a study on amenities to understand why people choose to live where they do and, more importantly, why they are leaving the farm belt.
Basically, they came up with a rating system that shows that places in the west and south that aren’t cold in the winter or too humid in the summer are nice places to live. Our tax dollars at work. Oh, and have more scenery around is preferable too.
The study is here.
I came across it in Scientific American’s May issue. The intro to the story is here.
Kind of fits in with the weather discussion you have going on. And yes, LA is nice (Culver City is about 70 degrees right now…). But we do have Barbara Boxer.

Me: Yeah, and I have Hillary and Charlie Schumer. I can adjust. Pod already backed up his SUV.