[cornsnicker3]

Originally Posted by cgregor

"That doesn't sound specifically liberal. That sounds like a really involved community of people who enjoy their city and get involved."

You won't find reactionaries going near a May Day celebration except to picket it, supporting public education, suffering a gentle mockery of the the running of the bulls, paying to see anything the Hooker-Dunham would stage, or going anywhere near a Woman's Film Festival. Other than that, you're correct.

By reactionaries, you mean non-liberals that are bothered by anything liberals do enough to vocalize or put to action their disapproval? I think that exists everywhere.

The town sounds pretty cool and happening. Almost reminds me of Eugene, OR or Boulder, CO. I think I have read enough to formulate a basic understanding of what to expect when I go to the town to interview.

Thank you for the input.

[timberline742]

Originally Posted by cornsnicker3

By reactionaries, you mean non-liberals that are bothered by anything liberals do enough to vocalize or put to action their disapproval? I think that exists everywhere.

The town sounds pretty cool and happening. Almost reminds me of Eugene, OR or Boulder, CO. I think I have read enough to formulate a basic understanding of what to expect when I go to the town to interview.

Thank you for the input.

It's a cool place. Very small though. I love it there. I tend to spend a weekend there once a year.

[squarpeg]

You got the picture.

Asheville, NC
Carrboro, NC
Boone, North Carolina?
Burlington, VT
Ann Arbor, MI
Northampton, MA? Amherst, MA?
Taos, NM
Ithaca, NY
Boulder, CO
Nederland, CO
Telluride, CO
Flagstaff or Prescott, AZ - not sure if these qualify
Telluride Colorado
Marfa, TX
Santa fe, NM
Oberlin, OH
Yellow Springs, OH
Oak Park, IL
Madison, WI
Saratoga Springs, NY
New Paltz, NY
Annandale-on-Hudson / Rhinebeck, NY
Brattleboro, VT
Minneapolis, MN
Red Hook, NY
Durham, NC?
and anywhere in Oregon, the state...

[cornsnicker3]

I don't see a lot of rentals in the area. Where exactly to do people live aside from buying a house?

[squarpeg]

Vermont does not have a huge rental market. There are apartments in town. Most people without a house live is an apartment.

Places to look:

Craigs list
Brattleboro reformer
town crier
local real estate agents also handle some rentals. Real estate market is soft so yo might try calling a few agents and tell them what you want.

[cornsnicker3]

Originally Posted by squarpeg

Vermont does not have a huge rental market. There are apartments in town. Most people without a house live is an apartment.

Places to look:

Craigs list
Brattleboro reformer
town crier
local real estate agents also handle some rentals. Real estate market is soft so yo might try calling a few agents and tell them what you want.

By soft, do you mean that it is a buyer's market?

[vter]

Front Porch Forum gets used a lot for rentals in my neck of the woods.
Front Porch Forum

[squarpeg]

Yeah probably alway is a buyers market, there just are not a lot of people in Vermont or moving to Vermont. I live in Florida half the year and have a house here and one in VT. I think if I wanted to sell my house in Florida it might take 3 months. Selling a house in VT could take years. Not because the place is bad or not worth it, but if you live in a town of 1200 people. Like I do and most of VT. Start thinking about how many new people are moving in? There are some but I think our town population has fluctuated from 800 to 2000 since about the year 1750. Things don't change much. People are not knocking down the door to move there. Pictures of the town from 1850 look the same except there are horses tied up and the general store instead of pickups. That is VT.

[cgregor]

May we keep it that way! My home town in the Midwest had 300 people in it when I was growing up. It now is wall-to-wall houses.

[cornsnicker3]

Originally Posted by squarpeg

Yeah probably alway is a buyers market, there just are not a lot of people in Vermont or moving to Vermont. I live in Florida half the year and have a house here and one in VT. I think if I wanted to sell my house in Florida it might take 3 months. Selling a house in VT could take years. Not because the place is bad or not worth it, but if you live in a town of 1200 people. Like I do and most of VT. Start thinking about how many new people are moving in? There are some but I think our town population has fluctuated from 800 to 2000 since about the year 1750. Things don't change much. People are not knocking down the door to move there. Pictures of the town from 1850 look the same except there are horses tied up and the general store instead of pickups. That is VT.

In all truthfulness, I am looking exactly for that. I am not a fan of expansion. Here in SoCal and also when I lived in Colorado, all I have ever seen is expansion. I found it disappointing overall. The fact that towns stay the same is a plus for me.