I’m a Vermonter. We moved up here about 16 years ago. It’s absolutely beautiful country, if you can stand the taxes. And the neighbors are very nice, and welcoming. A lot of our children have moved here, with grandchildren. And we have lots of dogs, and some fantastically beautiful walks.
My quickest description of Vermonters here in FR is: “Hippies with guns.”
One of my son-in-laws Father, who lives near us, is an EXTREME leftist. He was in the movement to pull Vermont out of the union because America was too conservative. His wife was complaining that squirrels were cleaning out their bird feeder. So one day he took a shotgun, sat comfortably on the porch (he was pretty old even then) and shot 18 squirrels. I wondered what those shots were at the time, but the sound of guns is pretty common around here.
And the ten months of winter...
I find it odd that a leftist would calmly sit with a gun targeting squirrels. I thought leftists were all sympathetic to natural habitats, animals, and PETA.