Well I can’t really comment on your situation but I can perhaps give you an idea of how he is going to feel about it all. My parents had lived in the same house for 25 years – I had lived there for 21 of them. Last year Dad got offered a much better job in a town called Tamworth. Its a country town in Sydney and completely different from what they were used to. They had a months notice – and when Dad resigned from where we both worked, they fired me! That was not altogether a bad thing because it gave me a chance to spend some time with them before they left – helping to get the house – which I dearly loved even though I no longer lived there – and themselves ready to go.

My sister, her son and I both decided to go to Tamworth with them to help them settle in and find a place to live and all. They drove up and we flew to meet them two days later. We got them settled in a really nice house and flew back home where my sister moved in with me as she had not moved out of home yet! The hardest parts for me was – I had seen my Dad at work every day for seven years and now I spoke to him on the phone instead – I couldn’t just get in the car and drive five minutes away to go see them like I used to and because Dad had started work right away he couldn’t come back to help us sort out all the stuff in the house when it was sold.

My sister and I did most of that ourselves and I found myself on the verge of tears for most of that time. Three months later my sister got offered a job with Dad, so she and my little nephew followed them up there. That was really hard because she took my three year old nephew with her – who I really adore and who doesn’t like talking on the phone! I would have followed them myself if I didn’t have attachments here and I really miss them but it has taught me to say the things that are really important to the really important people – which is my whole point to you Betsy.

I have one of these, it was a gift at Christmas in a £1 pressie draw thing we had at a meet. It is really nice, says ‘Little Nipper’ on it and has it’s very own last Rolo. Did I use it? I hear you ask, no chance, I might have trapped my fingers, or worse still a mouse. I wasn’t going to deal with dead ones, live ones shooting between you feet while you sit on the loo are bad enough. And then there are those cheeky ones who come to sit on the hearth rug and watch TV or check up on your marking (the marking got packed away and hasn’t been looked at since, got to finish it for tomorrow .

There is also the fact that my neighbors only caught two mice in their traps and they were babies. All other traps were cleaned out withing half an hour, and the mice just sat their waiting for that mini larded to be replenished. Never saw any of these, would have tried them if possible, the ‘Mouse Man’ said they didn’t use them ‘cos they’d run out of places to let them free’. Oh and one final thing, as we sorted the last of the bits in the house, someone went into the loft to sort out electrical grubbiness (did you know you cannot leave a shower in a council flat even if the next tenant wants it, unless it belongs to the council and if you have added a fire surround you should take it out and re wallpaper the room so it looks like there wasn’t one (I left mine)).

Anyway while in the loft they found other droppings, not the birds which nest there every year and create their own dawn chorus with squeaks and hob nailed boots, but either rat’s or squirrel’s droppings. And there was, I am told, a family of sizes. That was the last straw for me and as we left Rodent Place I vowed never to go back. We got a card the other day from Mischief the mouse, saying he missed us and did we want to go back, cos it was boring now the sweets had gone and the pasta in the cupboard. WE occasionally get river rats at my new house, they play in the gardens and eat the bird food, but never ask to come indoors. I’m not keen on them either.

In cosmological first-order phase transitions, the progress of true-vacuum bubbles is expected to be significantly retarded by the interaction between the bubble wall and the hot plasma. We examine the evolution and collision of slow-moving true-vacuum bubbles. Our lattice simulations indicate that phase oscillations, predicted and observed in systems with a local symmetry and with a global symmetry where the bubbles move at speeds less than the speed of light, do not occur inside collisions of slow-moving local-symmetry bubbles.

We observe almost instantaneous phase equilibration which would lead to a decrease in the expected initial defect density, or possibly prevent defects from forming at all. We illustrate our findings with an example of defect formation suppressed in slow-moving bubbles. Slow-moving bubble walls also prevent the formation of `extra defects’, and in the presence of plasma conductivity may lead to an increase in the magnitude of any primordial magnetic field formed. I know this a popular topic here, I’m sure, but I was wondering if anyone had any input to share about moving to Providence, RI, including where to live (in-town someplace neat or in a suburb), cost of living, general quality of life.

Any responses to the group are appreciated. I i moved here a few years ago (from outside of New England). But to answer your questions, how about some more info. Where abouts are you moving from? Are you moving with family? Moving for school or work? Do you like to walk to work, or plan on driving or using busses? Do you have pets? Are you an outdoors person? Does it have to be Providence? Providence is a cool little city. I really enjoy being here. But I wouldn’t give up my car – which I use to take me out of the city. But as far as night life, it has greatly improved in the last few years (+). People in RI have their own concerns about Providence, but I feel comfortable here, and I grew up in an agricultural area, with very little crime. You can rent with someone for around $300-600, or find a place of your own for approx $450+ (usually higher). The east side is great, but if you don’t mind a little more diversity it can be cheaper to live in some of the other neighborhoods.