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"The Green Mountain State’s secession movement brings together hippie greens and libertarian gun owners:" Free Vermont: Green Mountain boys ponder secession.
The article is full of interesting information, for example:
The Green Mountain State is on my short-list of places to consider for resettlement upon my return to the United States in a few years. Its climate and landscapes are similar to my native Upstate New York, another of my options. HALLOWED GROUND country in Northern California is also on that list. My parents have conveniently retired in that region. Still, it's hard for me to imagine my kids growing up with snowless winters. I guess the Sierra Nevadas are close enough. My wife and I fell in love with Northern New Mexico, another candidate, on a visit there a few years ago. Southern Oregon was also beautiful. Ideally, I'd like to find a rural area with enough hippie-types to allow a Thai restaurant.
"The Green Mountain State’s secession movement brings together hippie greens and libertarian gun owners:" Free Vermont: Green Mountain boys ponder secession.
The article is full of interesting information, for example:
Montpelier is the only McDonald’s-less state capital in the land....
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, who in bidding farewell to his neighbors in Cavendish, Vermont, where he had lived in exile for 17 years, praised “the sensible and sure process of grassroots democracy, in which the local population solves most of its problems on its own, not waiting for the decisions of higher authorities.”
The Green Mountain State is on my short-list of places to consider for resettlement upon my return to the United States in a few years. Its climate and landscapes are similar to my native Upstate New York, another of my options. HALLOWED GROUND country in Northern California is also on that list. My parents have conveniently retired in that region. Still, it's hard for me to imagine my kids growing up with snowless winters. I guess the Sierra Nevadas are close enough. My wife and I fell in love with Northern New Mexico, another candidate, on a visit there a few years ago. Southern Oregon was also beautiful. Ideally, I'd like to find a rural area with enough hippie-types to allow a Thai restaurant.
Redeemed by Our Savior, I work out my salvation with fear and trembling in Pohang, South Korea, where I live with my wife, daughter, and son and teach English at a science and technology university. Baptized a Methodist and raised a Missouri Synod Lutheran in Buffalo, NY, I spent six years as a guest of the Anglican Communion before being received by the Grace of God into the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church on the Feast of Saint Andrew, my patron, anno domini 2002.
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