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Yeah, I'd say just about anywhere in Washington or Oregon.
Not at all. The vast majority of the small towns are conservative. Very much so on the east side of the Cascades. Lots of suitable college towns though - Olympia, Bellingham, Eugene, maybe even Ellensburg, Pullman, and several others. Plus a few non-college towns with a hippie reputation, like Astoria and Port Townsend. And then of course northern California within 50 miles of the coast is the small-town-hippie epicenter of the universe...
Sounds like Fairfax, CA. It's a great place, with a charming, laid back downtown area and a very chill, throwback kind of vibe. Beautiful mountains and mountain lakes are all around. plenty of great weed. There's a live-and-let-live attitude that permeates the small town and stands in sharp contrast to some other Marin County places. It's only 40 minutes fro San Francisco, but it seems like it's hours away. Simply beautiful.
Marin is super expensive and though I don't know anything about Fairfax I don't think of Marin as hippy. I was born and raised in San Mateo County (Palo Alto, Woodside).
The only thing that does not make your list is that it is 4 hours from San Francisco. But it is a lot cheaper to live up there then many other places in CA. I have never been but I did a second Bachelors in nursing in Puerto Rico and there were many of us from CA because we just could not get into a school but a handful from Arcata and Humboldt after Humboldt state shut down their nursing dept. Very, very nice people from that part of the state.
I think Arcata is as hippy as you get in CA.
Here is a random web site listing hippy towns by state: Hippie Havens
Not at all. The vast majority of the small towns are conservative. Very much so on the east side of the Cascades. Lots of suitable college towns though - Olympia, Bellingham, Eugene, maybe even Ellensburg, Pullman, and several others.
For sure not Pullman or Ellensburg. And in only a small part of Olympia (around Evergreen) and Bellingham, and it is expensive in both places, especially for larger parcels of land. Olympia has more military than hippies, being adjacent to Joint Base Lewis-McChord.
Ithaca's definitely not a bad rec. Certainly couldn't do much better in NY state. However, regarding Trumansburg, which is for me directly en route to Ithaca, well, Trumansburg seems like a standard very small upstate NY town, and if it weren't located, what, 5 miles from Ithaca, then I'm not sure it would've ever crossed your mind. Culturally I see it having more in common with random village X than Ithaca. I certainly could be wrong, however.
As for the cannabis issue...although NY has some arcane law on the books where they were technically the first state to establish a medical MJ program (which was subsequently underfunded/ignored but never actually rescinded, if I'm recalling this correctly...definitely google-able for someone more motivated than I), it's not "MJ friendly" as per the wishes of the OP. However, in Ithaca proper, I would have to assume that possession is decriminalized, if only because I can't conceive of marijuana-related arrests being made in those environs.
The PNW/NorCal recommendations made in this thread are probably better bets, but Ithaca and Burlington VT are worth checking out in the NE
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