rabidsoccerball in response to your 10 minute flights are an exaggeration. That isn't true, flights go up to a max of 15 mins. You can even get a mod that shows flight times when you click on your flight master and also counts down whats left of the flight in your casting bar.
Although its kind of stupid people would take these long flights, you can cut the flight times down a lot but taking boats/zeps.
I've played SWG for a while before NGE and then played it a lot after NGE went live and I liked it but most of my friends went to WoW and I had already been playing a little so I converted over to full time WoW. Been playing for almost 3 years now.
To tell the truth, WoW is great and everything, but it does get boring. From levels 1-40 are the worst part of the game, it's just a constant grind even with all the quests. Only fun thing to do in the game for me now is to do endgame instances like Molten Core etc. But even they become boring after you've done them a million times. That's why I am coming back to SWG and starting fresh *downloading update as I type this*
World Of Warcraft Player Housing was just a rumour, it hasn't been confirmed by a blue and if it has I would love a link. They do put things in that players ask for though so maybe in a later expansion pack they will ad player housing, but it won't be burning crusade and I doubt it will be for a very long time if at all.
Overall, WoW has its pros and its cons, so does SWG but SWG is my favourite. WoW's community also really sucks, majority of them are immature or just plain rude. Alliance have now gained a reputation for being full of immature kids.
Blizz are also starting to ruin the game in small ways, just shows that any company can ruin their game a little, SOE just sped things up a bit
The whole /4 Global channel really sucks and just makes things harder to find a group.