utsusemi

I think I have to agree with papercuts. These brilliant strawman applicants with great funding packages from Harvard, Yale, and Stanford, who are sitting on the lot and trying to extract more dough for the sheer evil joy of it--if they exist at all--almost certainly don't read these boards, which are after all full of friendly commiseration, stories of funding crisis, and sympathetic tales from the waitlist. The effect of the OP seems rather to have been to offer the undecideds--probably still a majority at this point!--who are already losing plenty of sleep over what may be their most important life decision for the next five or ten years, an extra helping of guilt over their terrible selfishness.

I'd be willing to bet that most people on this forum who have more than one offer they're still considering could give you reasons just as convincing as the folks who've already been 'excused' in this thread. But blanket castigation followed by piecemeal exemption still spreads a lot of hurt feelings about. I understand the feelings behind this thread (adding to my own slow decision-making is the fact that I'm waitlisted at my hometown school), but it left a very sour taste.

I was waiting for someone else to start this thread, for some silly reason.

History here as well. And also planning to look for off-campus housing, though not in the market for a roommate since my SO is moving with me. FWIW, the History graduate advisor recommended Weyburn to me (before I explained about the SO), and students I met who've lived there seemed to like it pretty well. I also talked to two different grad students who'd met their long-term partners/fiances at resident social events there; interpret that anecdotal data as you like.

xorge84, what field of history? Late imperial China, for my part.