that and there's nothing else to do in Iowa :P Hey.........hey, hey.........watch that kind of talk :wink: Well there sure isn't much to do in your neck of the woods, I must admit. :P Being very serious here. There is more to do within 5 blocks of my house in Chicago than there was to do in the entire state of Iowa. It's a good place to raise kids, but that's about it. "Raising kids" is pretty substantial, probably more substantial than ANYTHING that's within 5 blocks of your house. Not to be argumentative, but what can you do within 5 blocks of your house that we can't do in Iowa? I was 22-26 when I lived in Des Moines. It was a very hard town for a young 20s person to live in. The town had a lot to offer if you were 12 years old or 35-75 years old, but very little for a recent college grad. Iowa is very conservative and I am not. What it comes down to is that I'm a city person and Iowa doesn't have any true cities. As far as things to do within 5 blocks of my house, that's not fair because I live in one of the best hoods in the greatest city in the world.