Posted on 10/28/2020 4:28:19 PM PDT by conservative98
They took off in a hurry — but these New Yorkers are on the express line back to the city.
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Turns out, not all New Yorkers are cut out for country living.
“I was definitely not in farm-shape when I got there,” said Thacher, who briefly volunteered at a friend’s organic homestead.
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And so after testing out life in Massachusetts, Vermont and Beacon in upstate New York, Thacher settled on, well, Brooklyn.
“It’s just so easy to walk places without having to plan things out. You can stumble upon bars or restaurants and not be on a script here.”
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On June 1, she signed a lease on a much bigger three-bedroom flat in Burlington, Vt., where she moved with her two Siberian Huskies.
“After two weeks I was like, ‘Is this all there is? Where is everybody?’ ”
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She was happy to return to the churn of fast-paced city life — and soon found herself back in her old routine of visiting museums, walking through Riverside Park and volunteering with the Wild Bird Fund.
“I moved back right in time for the Met re-opening,” said Cross. “When I walked into the room with the Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko paintings, my cells fell back into place.”
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No, we don't.
We are a bunch of inbred, banjo playing, Bambi killing hicks. Possibly cannibals too. Stay away. Move into one of those nice towns on the east side of the bridge.
Thanks for the insight. I wasn’t aware that there was an ugly side to Vermont.
Boy do they detest middle America values and down to earth people. Give me the phonies at the Broadway play.
and during the hot muggy days in the summer that unmistakable aroma of cow manure in the air.
Oh, yeah. She looks like the roughing-it type. LOL!
In her defense she did move to what I consider the “ugly side of Vermont”. Burlington sucks, it’s flat and ugly. Yes it has the lake, but you are on the lee side where it’s windy and cold most of the time and in early winter the lake effect is brutal. Siberia would be preferable.
Please GOD, tell everyone from either coast to go home, especially New York and California.
“gps systems which ALWAYS route the driver on freeways “
All GPS systems I’ve seen have a setting to “avoid highways (or freeways)”, which is my default.
And serve him up with dumplings. :)
There ya go!
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