Things VT had to deal with before it was cool:
- Abolition of slavery (they had none anyways)
- Gay marriage or civil unions or whatever the fuck
- DUDE GMO LABELING LMAO
- For some reason actually not weed
- Some semblance of 2nd amendment rights still exist
- High minimum wage
Vermont is the embodiment of hipsterism. There are probably more woodworking shops specializing in reusing broken furniture and fallen branches than there are people. There are more farmer's markets than towns. There is a minimum price set on milk so local farmers can pretend to compete with midwest organizations. Vermont is the land of the east-coast hipster, rural variant, not like those Jersey urban poseurs.
It's beautiful and an interesting combination of state policies, history, cultural contributions, etc, etc have kept it a very unique and tourist-friendly place, and it's genuinely fun to ski here too. A lot of people are very friendly despite being inwardly depressed and bitter over the cold winters and no actual economy. As long as you don't try to put in any form of power plant or cellphone tower or cut down one of the many worthless white pines littering the area, you should be fine.
Seriously though, people were getting into car crashes and dying because there was no damn reliable cell coverage just 5 or 10 years ago, largely because of deluded eco-fags and "not-in-my-backyard"ers complaining it would ruin the view. Nuclear power is evil and killed 9 billion earths, but wind power is too loud, ruins the view, and might kill a bird, so we get our juice from Quebec. Because the state needed more shit to pay other outside places for.
There are a lot of genuinely interesting, cool, or even decent people here and a nice community, but the delusions are too thick to breathe. I want to leave even though there are few places on earth as beautiful as here and I can actually get guns. No decent job field, and the "new tech" they want to bring to the state doesn't want to come because they'll tax them to death and also interfere with every little thing they do, like, your parking lot might kill a duck somehow, or whatever.
Also the main reason it worked so well and is so nice overall, even off the beaten path, is frankly because everyone is white, part genuine hippies who actually wanted peace and love, part Irish and Italian immigrant families who worked their asses off farming and quarrying granite. Now people are moving up from the cities, and hate to say it but every other new holdup or abuse case or shooting involves some ghetto nig.
Also everyone's taking opiates and getting fucked up because there's a greater supply and lots of depressive self-hating masochistic hipsters. Very strange mix, Vermont.
At least we can /k/ enough to make Texas jealous, though.
