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What are some awesome small towns near big cities in this country? I think I might have discovered a little gem that goes by the name of bremerton washington. Its a town of about 40k surrounded by water and near a national park accross the bay from seattle. There is a ferry that goes back and forth from bremerton to seattle that takes about an hour to get from bremerton to seattle and vica versa. I like the idea of living in a slow paced small town full time but being close to a big city that I can escape to from time to time.
There are a couple that come to mind that are very close to the big city, but still much like small towns. The West Bank towns across the Mississippi River from New Orleans, such as Gretna and Algiers , and the Kentucky towns across the Ohio River from Cincinnati, like Covington and Fort Thomas.
Also, Marine City, Michigan, on the Detroit River just north of Detroit, where there is a ferry to Canada.
You don't have to go more than a few miles out of Pittsburgh, to feel like you are in the middle of nowhere.
I like Nyack NY, which is about 20 miles north of NYC. Nice, walkable village of about 6500 that has some nightlife and history right on the Hudson River.
East Aurora and Lewiston in the Buffalo area would work.
Plymouth outside of Detroit and near Ann Arbor may be a good candidate.
You don't have to go more than a few miles out of Pittsburgh, to feel like you are in the middle of nowhere.
There's places within Pittsburgh where you feel like you're in themiddleofnowhere.
I wouldn't call them awesome, except insofar as they are weird semi-rural backwoods pockets less than a mile away from dense urban areas, but they're interesting.
There's places within Pittsburgh where you feel like you're in themiddleofnowhere.
I wouldn't call them awesome, except insofar as they are weird semi-rural backwoods pockets less than a mile away from dense urban areas, but they're interesting.
To get back on track with the thread topic, Suffern and the Rivertowns of Westchester County(Tarrytown, Ossining, Peekskill, Dobbs Ferry, Irvington, Croton-on-Hudson, Hastings, etc) outside of NYC could work too.
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Athens, GA is about an hour east-northeast of Atlanta. It's far enough away to have its own gravity, but close enough for convenient day trips. It's also a quintessential college town, so it does have some extra ambiance for a town its size.
Forest Grove, Hood River, Silverton, and McMinnville in Oregon, and Camas on the Washington side of the 'ditch' are all great little towns within an hour's drive of Portland. Hood River in particular is pretty great for its size. McMinnville and Forest Grove almost have a college town vibe (small colleges in each town, not big universities) to them.
I think most of these are near large cities. I have posted volumes about Louisville, Colorado, my home.
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