Wise lady. You are extremely correct about compromise - however much I am Capetonian and love this place, being Zimbabwean is about having a corner of your soul always conscious of loss. No-where is ever perfectly "home". Nowhere can be, ever again. I could get all depressive about it, except actually one trundles along and is basically quite fine. Life is perfectly liveable even if one's Melancholy is perpetually around 3.

Echo Bazaar, fast becoming the place with a Metaphor for Everything :>.