I understand this line of thinking, and sometimes do the "if only" thing myself. But you know, if we keep it up, this place will end up looking just like the places we left. We knew when we moved here what we were giving up. All our favorites have become special places we visit when we go to see the kids. We never expected TV to be a clone of our home town. That said, if only there was a really good Asian rice/noodle shop.