I grew up in New England and have a short list of the things that I like about Vermont...
beautiful terrain for off road enduro riding (m/c)
greenies (the beer, not the enviros)
the Dunham shoe outlet store
Highgate Springs customs station, best to get to Canada (IMO)
some of the people that grew up in Vermont (real Green Mountain people) and a few who moved there
Bellows Falls (because we called it fellows balls)
The Northeast Kingdom is fairly conservative.....rest of the state not so much.