Vermontification is happening to at least some rural parts of almost every blue state at this point and a few purple ones. lot of appetite for a version of crunchy rural living where women and gay people still have rights
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for sure. maine had a similar back to the land movement as vermont in the 70s, but at a smaller scale. so there's already a pretty strong crunchy undercurrent. then you add in no longer needing to live in boston for jobs and the feeling youre talking about. its a recipe for big demographic shifts
aug 27, 2025, 3:03 pm • 9 0 • view
Strongly believe that David Mallett could have beaten Susan Collins for Senate in 2008.
aug 27, 2025, 3:05 pm • 9 0 • view
people forget the greens do kind of insanely well here in state wide races. they were getting like 10% in gubernatorial races in the 90s/00s. 5% in the 2020 senate. they're still a total joke full of cranks but they have an appeal to a certain kind of mainer
aug 27, 2025, 3:12 pm • 6 0 • view
A Dem or Dem-aligned independent who could harness that dumb-dumb energy.....let's go babey
aug 27, 2025, 3:14 pm • 6 0 • view
Downeaster doesn't hurt either, tbh. Not perfect but better than anything else New Hampshire has or is likely to have anytime soon, straight down to comprising literally all of its non-excursion passenger rail too.
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Gerard Winstanley's dream is still alive in the Verdant Forests of former Puritan Kingdom of Heaven
aug 27, 2025, 5:37 pm • 0 0 • view
My sister, BIL, and nephew did literally this a month ago, moving to the outskirts of Ithaca, NY.
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"Leave me the f•ck alone" is a net into which all sorts of fish swim. Some of them are more into Tannerite than I would personally care for, but them's the breaks.
aug 27, 2025, 4:48 pm • 2 0 • view
not for me personally, I need cell service, but I did love the crunchy rural gay trans wedding I went to recently
aug 27, 2025, 2:59 pm • 32 1 • view
yeah i had previously vowed to never live in a town smaller than portland again after growing up in rural nh, yet here i am living in a town of 20k people lol
aug 27, 2025, 3:04 pm • 13 0 • view
(in fairness its 70% dem)
aug 27, 2025, 3:08 pm • 10 0 • view
TBF, I think New Hampshire just acts as a sin-eater for the rest of New England, absorbing all the absolute worst people in the region.
aug 27, 2025, 3:19 pm • 2 0 • view
oh for sure. a lot of republicans move there from southern new england
aug 27, 2025, 3:31 pm • 1 0 • view
I live in an 8k/sq mi streetcar suburb 35 minutes from NYC by train and I think it's the least urban I can do lol
aug 27, 2025, 3:18 pm • 9 0 • view
i do miss public transit, i loved living in a big city. covid brought me back up here cause i had to move back in with my parents. i assumed i would end up leaving for a city again, but met my partner instead
aug 27, 2025, 3:30 pm • 2 0 • view
There WAS (But decidedly is not, with the exception of the upper parts of the Hudson River Valley & even that's really more its own thing compared to the rest of Upstate) a 6th type of acceptable rural voter: the Upstate NY voter, especially the "Burned-Over District" but it disappeared...
aug 27, 2025, 5:31 pm • 1 0 • view
...Arguably to a large extent before the current set of rural-urban, rural-suburban, & rural-exurban divides in this country truly solidified but it's definitely starting to make a comeback both in its old stomping grounds & the nearby Finger Lakes, spurred in no small part by Ithaca...
aug 27, 2025, 5:33 pm • 1 0 • view
See also Colorado ski towns, trying to think where Vermontification is happening in PA/MD/VA/WVa
aug 27, 2025, 4:46 pm • 3 0 • view
spoiler alert: not the PA Wilds/Laurel Highlands
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That makes me sad, it’s pretty up there
aug 27, 2025, 5:51 pm • 1 0 • view
I will give it that.
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