I was a NEK Boy for 27 years.
St. J , Barnet, Lyndonville. mostly Caledonia County.
I loved that place. But work took me away.
Chittendon Co. is a real laugh. Mostly hippies and children of hippies. They take excursions into the hinterlands of Vermont and talk about the quaint natives. I had no time for the idiots back then and I sure as hell don’t now.I remember when Bernie Sanders was mayor of Stannard ( population 16), going around protesting at garbage trucks because there was no recycling. ( One of my Christmas tree farmer friends cucked Bernie by screwing his 1st wife. My how the low have risen off the wave of Chittenden.)
I miss those green hills and huge oak trees in the old growth stands.
Love the NEK. We don’t have any police coverage and we don’t need it - we have excavators on speed dial.
Even the ‘bad-ass’ drug dealers from down south know enough to leave before they get to snorkel in a manure pit.