I've camped at Half Moon Pond. Absolutely loved it. And there's a Revolutionary War battlefield nearby if you're a history buff.

Front Porch Forum for sure.

Also, do you have any experience building front steps? Need to replace mine. Plus a hundred or so other handyman jobs I've been putting off.

This thread is saltier than I-91 after a snowstorm.

I'd pile on, but my plow guy didn't show up either, and I'm now curled up in a ball underneath my kitchen table, keening.

I moved to SE Vermont in 2020 after spending a little over a year looking for a place.

All I'm going to say about housing is this: Things are tough all over, not just in Vermont. Housing is expensive across the U.S. Decent rentals are hard to find for anyone making less than 6 figures. And forget about buying property within commuting distance of any major city, unless your household income is above a quarter million.

I chose Vermont because I like its beauty, its history, and even the people. Communities here are actually communities, not just places where people come home to sleep & then commute to the city the next morning. I moved in at the beginning of lockdown and my neighbors left & right of me introduced themselves over the fence, asked if we needed anything, even brought over groceries while we were quarantined the first couple of weeks.

Now that everything has opened up again, there's always something going on: art shows, music, plays, community clean-ups. Everything is on a smaller scale compared to Boston, but the adjustment wasn't too painful.

Vermont needs (more) people with energy and ideas and a desire to help their community. You would be welcome!

Joy Wah is consistently reliable, thoroughly decent Chinese food. That's slightly above the bar for this state.

I drive to White River Junction every few weeks to grab a sandwich at Phnom Penh. It's also the only decent pho I've found in this part of the state.

The Bellows Falls Canal was the first canal built in the U.S. (1802), pre-dating the Erie Canal. https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=74471

Canal Street (currently closed at one end as the new apartment building is being finished) is one of the oldest streets in BF and because it was built over a preexisting path used to portage barges and canoes, technically may be much older than the village.

The Adams Grist Mill is one of the best preserved water wheel grist mills I've ever seen. The horizontal water wheel is still in place under the building but went out of use in the early 1920s when the new hydroelectric plant came online. It's open for tours in the summer & fall: https://www.bellowsfallshistoricalsociety.org/gristmill

People say that about every Irish bar.

The fish ladder is only open to the public in June and September, mainly on weekends. Those are migration periods for shad, lamprey eels and salmon. Other times there is nothing to see on the ladder, or so I'm told.

Yeah, the past couple of weeks has felt like Mother Nature going, "doo dee doo, winter here, what am I forgetting OH SHOOT VERMONT HERE U GO"

It depends. When I was looking at houses in the Rockingham area, one of the places I looked at outside the village had double the taxes of a similar square footage house within the village. There were probably a number of reasons why, such as more acreage, the view tax, etc.

1. Brattleboro to Boston South Station for sure.
2. Burlington to Boston North Station.
3. More than 1 NB/SB train per day.