Starbucks is great stuff, but it depends on what you get. The specialty drinks are better than the regular coffee, though. I think with a coffee shop or book store on seemingly every corner of every city in America, Starbucks is no longer all that "unique", so if you've been to Caribou, or Borders, or anywhere else that serves the same general stuff, you're not really missing all that much by not going to Starbucks.