My office is moving across town Monday. We've been going through the twenty years worth of collected detritus: mail, project reports, financial records, flip-charts from some workshop a decade ago. You know, the usual.

We're moving because we've found a building where the elevator doesn't occasionally capture you for four hours, the AC doesn't come on in the winter, and the heat doesn't come on in the summer (we had to open the windows the week it was 90 outside to try to cool the office; I am not kidding), that doesn't have mice - and squirrels - and birds, the stairwell doesn't leak - and the resulting puddles wouldn't freeze if it did, where the super will come when we call. Oh, I could go on.

But mostly we're moving because the new building is cheaper. With all the dot-com bankruptcies in and around Boston, the cost of office space fell off the side of a cliff. So, if you're looking for office space . . .

Housing is still outrageous, though.