The Sweet Lure of Your Graduate-School Town

By MURRAY SPERBER

When I retired from Indiana University, af-ter teaching there 33 years, my department threw a party and, as part of the festivities, asked me to speak. During my remarks, I outlined my plans: My wife, Aneta, and I had bought a condo in the San Francisco Bay area and expected to live there. In fact, she already had a high-school...