Posted on 11/15/2021 4:06:39 AM PST by cotton1706
Vermont has such a small population that it did not take many New Yorkers and Massachusetts folks moving in to turn into lefty zombie-land.
But—aside from the politics, it remains a beautiful and wonderful place if you can survive the winters.
Leahy was the AG who decided that Vermont won’t arrest skinnydippers. Most swimming holes in Vermont are clothes optional and one of New England’s popular beaches is The Ledges...
Know right where that is. Nice area. Large outpatient medical park nearby.
Lot of history in Rochester. Spent hours with a friend wandering the cemeteries along Lake Avenue looking at the old headstones. Did drill at the old and now closed ARNG “castle” on Main Street.
Having Kodak, Xerox, B&L and their economic activity “hid” some of the socioeconomic problems that Rochester had, mainly lots of single parent households in minority neighborhoods that had high levels of poverty. A recipe for disaster.
Now when I travel back to Rochester, I eat and shop more outside the city - Pittsford, Victor, some in Greece. There’s just a lot of Rochester that I would consider unsafe and not worth the hassle. Still some nice areas, but not nearly as many as, say, 20 years ago. The other problem with Rochester has been an incompetent mayor and administration (that dislikes police) the last 8 years. Just clueless. She’s on the way out in a couple of weeks, The new mayor can’t do any worse.
I was in Burlington a few weeks ago.
Quite pale. When the white population is >90%, you can afford all that crazy-ass social experimentation.
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