I'm in the middle of making the same move. My motivations were price (a 512 slice costs half as much on Linode) and locality (Linode have a London data centre;

I'm in the middle of making the same move. My motivations were price (a 512 slice costs half as much on Linode) and locality (Linode have a London data centre; Slicehost don't). So far I've been very impressed.