Sun, Oct 5, 2003 -- 4:30 PM

A Sense of Place
Hot Soup, is, if anything, about place. We live in Northern California, and on the program we tend to tell stories about our little world here, and the people who make it so interesting. But this edition of Hot Soup looks a bit further away from home, at how our California sensibility and identity is felt outside the Bay Area.

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Host: Penny Nelson

SF-NYC
There are plenty of stereotypes about New York living, or the California lifestyle. Hear from people who moved from one edge of the country to the other about their impressions of their new home.

Sister Cities
In some ways we build a relationship with the town we live in. We like certain features and hate others, but basically we have to accept our urban partner in life with all its lovable and annoying traits. Cities are also paired up, according to characteristics and needs, and according to the will of the city's leaders.

In My Backyard
In lean economic times, creative types find themselves struggling even harder to make ends meet. Northern California writer Colin Berry recently moved to the country, where he found out he had a potentially lucrative source of income in his own back yard.

The Escape
If someone says a place "feels like home," they probably mean that it feels inviting and familiar. But, what if you live in a home that feels uncomfortable? One 11-year-old girl found that homey feeling outside her own yard, and kept it a secret from her family.