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Originally Posted by Pointer
 Hey don't knock Vermont. I've raised my kids and spent half my life there. For all the talk about the good ole days when it was safe to let your kids go out to play and you didn't have to lock your doors or worry about a person keeping their word etc. etc. we found to be alive and well there.
I don't miss the snow because I'm not a skier, nor a youngster, but the people, beauty and safety of Vermont will always be in my heart. |
So true. We were lucky as well to raise our family here.
They had the safe wholesome childhood that is elusive now in so many other locations.
We were just saying the other day that our kids were able to walk on the pine trail to school........never once did we worry they would be molested. All of the children played outside in groups with their friends, just as we did in New Jersey in the 1950's.
Carefree childhood. They walked down the hill to the library in town. They walked to the movie theatre. How many kids can still do that. They could enjoy a rural life with horses, etc. or a "townie" life (believe it or not we have some culture up here).......
We left our doors open as well.........neighbors helped neighbors; generations knew each other.........the continuity of life was a given.
Our son lives in Colorado ever since he graduated Univ. of Vermont at age 22, then went west (as did so many Vermont boys) got his M.B.A. out there; made a great life for himself; is a business owner........lovely family.
HOWEVER, when he returns to Vermont & we all drive through the gorgeous green mountains........he always says how much he loves his home state.........but Colorado is now his home.
I think I played way too much JOHN DENVER back in the day..........but they also say that they will never be able to let their little girls just walk to school alone or play out alone as they were able to play freely in Vermont & Oregon.
Changing society.
Our daughter is raising her kids in northern Vermont up by Ben & Jerry's, Cabot Cheese, very rural forested area, on their ten acres of land; beautiful country again........have chickens for eggs, live a healthy lifestyle. She also has her Masters in teaching; her hubby is an almost Ph.d but without dissertation.
To each his own. But Vermont is NOT filled with druggies. Certainly NOT as many as Florida.
The drug dealers came UP to Vermont from the metro city areas & hooked some weak youngsters on heroin & cocaine. Our police & drug task force have been working hard as they want their own little ones to live the lives they experienced.............just as you mention above.....spoken from your heart.......only those who have been blessed to live in a simple pure state can speak the truth.........the newspapers totally blew it all out of proportion, simply because the DRUG BUSTS came out of pristine lilly white Vermont. Like it couldn't happen here. Our one super highway on the right side of the state was a conduit for those from the SOUTH, & from New York City, Philadelphia, etc.......Vermont was always said to have more cows than people........the little towns & villages are few & far between.