But what about Madison, Wisconsin? There are bookstores. There are plenty of cafes; only the Living Room stays open after mid-night. The Onion is well-known to be Madison's only source for news, though there are two satiricial papers of dubious taste, the Capitol Times and the Wisconsin State Journal. There is a university, which I once attended. There is a student ghetto. There are over 43,000 students. There is Balkan lounge funk, performed by the Reptile Palace Orchestra. The summers are hot, humid and mosquito-ridden; the winters are the stuff of nightmares --- ``the glaciers stopped here,'' in the words of the poet. There are visits by Gottlob Frege --- a unique honor in this day and age. There is a great deal of milk and even more beer, Wisconsin leading the country in per-capita alcohol consumption. There are occasional stampedes of 14,000 students in the football stadium.Heard about Houston
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Snow falls as late as May Day. The best times to visit are May and September. Those are also the best times to live here.