Aside from a certain politician being from there. I might be moving to Vermont for a job soon. I hear kind of good things about it?
-It’s a bit more left than the vast majority of states
-very pretty outdoors
-very pretty towns
Cons-
-white as fuck and I’m a distinctly not white brown male (not saying this is a huge con, these type of areas can paradoxically be the least racist places, or better said have the most tolerable type of racism)
-expensive with low wages. Brutal combo wtf
-big one for me: hardly any people. I’m single, in my 30s, I need to get to fucking and developing my social life. I can’t spend my time surrounded by fucking bears dude. Don’t get me wrong, I’d love it, but if I know what’s good for me, I need to be surrounded by people in my prime years.
Honestly, I’m hesitantly excited; I’ve spent a lot of time in Texas, Michigan, Maryland. The brief time I spent in a New England college town as a visitor was nice; took an amtrak across this region and it was breathtakingly beautiful, everything from the architecture to the natural beauty.
Just need some advice and opinions about living in Vermont.
People are pretty active and the nice thing about the northeast is lots of public land.
For as much freedom as people like to brag about in Texas like 98% of the state is privately owned. Vermont and the surrounding northeast (come check out the adirondacks on the other side of the lake sometime) have massive amounts of public outdoor spaces where lots of peo0le do outdoor activities. That's your best bet for not only meeting people but meeting people who actively go put and do stuff.
It is pretty expensive but I think a lot of that is there's more independently owned stores and less big chains which will be more expensive but can also be way better.