California's Blue Sky

I have returned to California after being in Asia for almost 4 weeks.   While Singapore and Hong Kong are both hot and humid, I could certainly live in either of those cities.  Both cities are safe and clean and offer good consumer amenities.  Their universities are filled with many interesting faculty who (not surprisingly) are working on issues related to Asia. Given my current research focus on Asia, I'm interested in spending more time there and interacting more with scholars who also work on that region.   Too much environmental and urban economics focuses on the United States and that's not where the action is.   With the exception of macro economic research (where much more work needs to be done),  academic economists have probably spent too much time studying the U.S economy.