^^^^^^ That's "winter" weather? (Giggle...) But +1; being independent of the bus and the car 12 months a year is a blessing.

My office looks out over a major artery, a causeway over one of the lakes. Up until a few years ago, late afternoon, you could look out upon a sea of slow-moving taillights (or not-moving brake lights), everyone lurching "outbound" from downtown to get on the Beltline and lurch some more. Recently our economic 800-lb gorilla, Epic Systems, opened a sprawling campus out in one of the suburbs. They hire a lot of millennials, who like the fast pace / pulse of living downtown. So there's also been a high-rent residential building boom downtown. So now, at the same time of day, there's the same sea of tail/brake lights, but also a slow-moving sea of headlights on the other side of the road, all the Epic people driving INTO town to go home. I often go home on the MUP that parallels this road, along the lake shore. At least half the time, I'm going as fast as the cars. And there's a rear-ender or t-bone clean-up probably once a week.