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Meet the four best fri who all moved house to live on the same street – and say they have built their “own community.” Sarabeth Stine, 43, was delighted when her pal Kelly Holbin, 45, found a house just around the corner 10 years ago in their neighborhood in Atlanta, Georgia. When their friend Erinn Cottman, 40, needed a new home three years ago they couldn’t believe their luck when the house across the street from Sarabeth, who works in sales, became available. And two years ago, Kristi W, 44, surprised her fri by buying the house next door to…

SWSCmusic – by Stephen Beech Music makes people move – even when they don’t like it, according to new research. The pleasurable urge to move to music – “to groove” – appears to be a physiological response independent of how much we generally enjoy music, say scientists. The study, published in the journal PLOS One, found that the groove response is so strong it is even found in people with musical anhedonia – those who take little or no pleasure from music. Recent research shows the two aspects of groove, pleasure and the urge to move, while usually closely correlated,…