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SiO4 posted...

Oh I do love New England. Don't get me wrong, but you have to be rather hardy to make it though the tougher months....or just a crazy skier.

I think that's what's so interesting for me about relocating somewhere with real winter. We've definitely had bad winters but most of that is because we don't have the infrastructure for it. A week or two of cold weather with maybe some snow (or ice, more likely) and everything goes to hell. We may get that two or three times a winter, broken up by boring cold weather or decent days.

I don't even have a proper winter jacket because a hoodie with a long sleeved shirt underneath will work just fine most of the time, even with my distaste for the cold. If it's colder than that, I just don't go out because there's nothing to do anyway. I want to go somewhere that requires the art of layering. I want to go somewhere that doesn't freak out because there is a possibility of snow. I know blizzards and all that can be brutal and I'm not trying to romanticize it but it is part of the appeal. I want that experience, you know?

I've spent many of days in Vermont and it is as charming as it is made out to be. Not without issues, but the ideal isn't a fake vibe.
I am in New York, but I only live like an hour from Arlington, where Norman Rockwell did some of his work.

Vermont looks incredible. I might spend a couple of weeks in New England because it seems difficult to pick one place to go.