For the most part, this is the kind of place where you want to ski hard, cozy up in front of a fire with your honey and your kids, eat spaghetti, watch the movies you never had time to see at home or play Scrabble.

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You pay for the health club upfront because you know that if you had to pay every time you went to the club, you would never go.

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Monday's irritation at the lines for everything had given way to resignation and the realization that you can never get anywhere on time.

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"We've never had that direct accountability of our policing to a person that you can hire and fire at election time, " he said.

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Free time that you won't know how to fill, because you've never really had any before.

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