Arriving at a specified directory instead of the user's home

Hi!

Can I somehow tell ssh to land in a different directory than the home
of the user? I.e., something like this:

ssh -target-dir=/local/cooldir me@themachine
->
me@themachine:/local/cooldir #

or if I could get ssh not to logout after performing a command, that
would be good, too, because the command could be a 'cd':

ssh -dontlogout me@themachine "cd /local/cooldir"

(Just to avoid confusion: the options "-target-dir" and "-dontlogout"
don't actually exist... unfortunately :) )

I am using this version: OpenSSH_4.2p1, OpenSSL 0.9.8a 11 Oct 2005

Can anyone help with this, please?

Thanks,
Agoston

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