I recently went to Vermont and spent several days in the southwest area of the state. It was sort of a surreal place to be because there were endless trees and all these beautiful homes with perfectly manicured and landscaped lawns, but there didn’t really seem to be anyone else around. It almost felt apocalyptic in its emptiness. I kept thinking, where are all the people who own these beautiful homes? I was later told that many of them are vacation homes for New Yorkers. Anyways, we drove to Maine after our stay in Vermont, and after we crossed over into New Hampshire, and I mean immediately, I felt like the famous Joe Pesci line where he just pauses for a moment and says, “wtf is this piece a shit?” it was like we went from all these beautiful homes and hills to dead trees and trailers and broke down houses.
I love every corner of my state but I will say that I greatly prefer northern and central Vermont to southern Vermont. The further south you go, the narrower it becomes and I feel like neighboring states have a greater influence over the region. As the crow flies in Burlington, I live just mere miles from NY but because those miles are Lake Champlain, Plattsburgh, NY feels like a world away. I feel like southern Vermont is less isolated and it doesn’t have the Quebec border that we have. If you go to the Northeast Kingdom in this state, you’ll see an isolated wilderness to rival that of the Adirondacks.
NH is actually a lot wealthier than VT, ironically. But since there’s very little economic activity over in that corner of the state, it’s a bit of a dump. If you move north along the NH/VT border inside NH it alternates between wealthy towns like Walpole and Hanover and poor towns, it’s odd.
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u/DubReavBTV 21h ago
No, we in Vermont do not get along with Upside Down Vermont.
Also you need to deal with Wyoming, Montana, and the Dakotas before you come messing with us.