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Rhinebeck is a blip on the map of the hudson valley. Expensive (yes...even though its far from NYC)...very "bed and breakfasty"....wine and cheese...very into in nature, natural farming....not really the place if cannot deal with not having a dunkin donuts or gap within 15 minutes. There is one main street with very nice things.....and unless you need to do the big box retail..people support the local boutiques, farmers, grocery stores up there. The neighorhood pharmacy and the local coffee house. Its just a different way of life. Good schools, old money. I wonder how people actually make it up there. They commute to southern dutchess I guess and up to albany. Or they are tenured professors at suny new paltz or bard college. There is NO business parks or downtown.
Like I said..extremelly tight knit town..something that isnt common anymore.
Nice place to visit, but totally not a practical place to live, like people said here, you either have (retired hedge funder with an interest in arts) to live there. Very nice boutique stores, restaurants prices are on par with NYC, huge focus on locally purveyed food, I love it, but personally, don't know how one could make it work by just having even a stable, relatively well-paying job because most of such jobs are in NYC and commute will be a killer.
Rhinebeck, old and NEW money, nice main street, small stores etc great example of what can be achieved with a proactive Town Government. Ideal place if you can afford it, no sprawl allowed.
I live in the heart of Rhinebeck and agree that it is very pretty, very clean, pretty snooty (there is an older, artsy crowd here and a lot of educated young families) very safe, full of top-rated restaurants serving food grown locally, high-end boutiques, a tiny indie movie theatre, not too crowded in my opinion, and little to no diversity whatsoever. It does get touristy on the weekends when people from NYC come up to visit (especially during warmer months). It's a very charming town in the center of Hudson Valley's beautiful landscape...when I lived in NYC this was like a beautiful getaway that smelled like grass and flowers and trees. You won't find ANY chain restaurants or stores within 15 minutes...they are all over the bridge in Kingston or 20 minutes south in Hyde Park or Poughkeepsie, NY. The more north you go from here the more isolated and farm-landy it gets.
Also, it's expensive because nearly everyone here is upper-class.
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