Wow that's weird, not sure why you had that experience, I haven't at all.

It's really about the place you visit, it's not just all "Vermont" there are nooks and crannies specific to each locale. It takes years to get into a place, I know you're just looking to check it out, I think you should generally see how you vibe with the place, do some local stuff, drive to a few other things that interest you, the drives are always beautiful in and of themselves. Give some ideas of what you're into and I bet you'll get a lot of local suggestions.

Middlebury Marquis. They have real butter on their popcorn and the best hidden burrito stand I have seen in Vermont.

I would, there are a lot of sweet spots and I am sure you can find just what you are looking for. I wouldn't go to the crowded spots - just trawl up or down the road and find some less busy spots. I have a memory of such a place when I was 2 or 3 - I couldn't swim but I remember the beauty.

I have to agree there. Been single the last 4 years, everyone my age is married and has kids.

I moved to Vermont because of a girl. I stayed because I have many connections here, and I love my river in the summer and the winters are easy now, lol.

I've read a little about this in histories of my town, Bristol in Addison Co. There's a hill east of town that is now forested, but used to be cleared a long way up the slope. After they'd logged the original hardwoods, they got lucky with a second growth of white pine, which was logged in the latter 1800's. After that, it was used for sheep farming: there was a boom in merino-type wools in the late 19th century, and everyone was raising sheep. The soil is very rocky because it's glacial till, so there were many accounts of farmers clearing fields (creating the stone border walls) only to find the stones had re-emerged in their field the next year. Many of these pastures were abandoned, as ours was, and has returned to mixed forest - white pine, maple, birch, beech. I would not have given up so easily! Couplemore seasons you'd have high walls and clear fields.

Warren store

Just watch the unpaved roads, especially in mud season

LoL

Yes, I always buy them up through Ripton or Lincoln because they're cheaper and the best and of course they cut out the middleman.

That is a very strange dude. Though I disagree that he is the quintessential vermonter at all (where's the camo? No beard?), I do thing he would probably end up living here. Or rural Oregon, looks like an Oregonoan to me.

I wonder of I know you...

Bristol area, Lincoln. Some good places in the rural areas, but proces went way up during covid with peo0le fleeing their cities to come here. Still, you can find places, life is moving on. Community is incredible for small town living, a lot of good folks doing good things artistic. So beautiful here, can't really do better unless you want access to shit. Mad river valley too. Good luck, I lived in the South too for years and hated it. Welcome to paradise, hope to see you at the river.

His real name is Chevy Chase, but you can call him AI.

1 and 3 are closest.

THAT'S what it is! The color ain't right

Yeah I'm pretty sure my summer swimming home is right behind that church. It's a little too close to the river though. I like how it's all churches.

It can be tough. I'm alone but I do have my cats, which is a lot. It's pretty desolate out there. Good times ahead, do your best!

Postman here, always go full leather waterproof, and treat them.

It was doable before covid, not so much now

Street tacos, DF style, are done with two soft tacos. You don't know what you're talking about with authentic there.
As for the rest, man sorry you had a bad experience.

I mean, that's nice but the market now has stabilized where it's easy to get professionally grown bud for less than 200 an ounce, if you have been around for a while.
I think it's good for the tourist/college market, but the rest of us will keep doing what we've been doing. Which is why Vermont is the best, they made it the poor can grow, the rich can buy, qe're all happy.

I would like to second this. As someone from the Hudson Valley NY, I found I was treated with the same distain all people not-of-Vermont get. The word for it is Flatlander and it doesn't matter where you are from, you were not born in Vermont, your last several generations have not come from here, you are basically a foreigner. It will take you 5 years to find even the beginnings of friendships, and likely you will never be fully accepted.
It's beautiful here and you will love it, but it will always seem fleeting and you will always be an outsider.

I am in that position and I have accepted it, although I have done the next closest thing which is to be a postman in my town, almost an honorary member status. Still, there is the knowledge that this title is ceremonial, it is not transmissable to my kin, it dies with me should i ever move.

I'd go with New Hampshire.