Do towns like stars hollow exist?

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Anonymous wrote:I will be honest, my block is like this. I am in Arlington so its not a small town, but we are hyper local here. I know everyone on our surrounding blocks and we all support each other- except for one person but we all need a bad guy in the story. community is what you make of it, you can be lucky to have great neighbors move in, but small towns can be tough to break into socially

Is this Westover? Westover people seem to fanatically insist on how folksy and close knit their “little town” is.

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Anonymous wrote:I will be honest, my block is like this. I am in Arlington so its not a small town, but we are hyper local here. I know everyone on our surrounding blocks and we all support each other- except for one person but we all need a bad guy in the story. community is what you make of it, you can be lucky to have great neighbors move in, but small towns can be tough to break into socially

Ha are you kidding. Arlington is not stars hollow

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Mountain Brook near Birmingham, AL

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I grew up in Simsbury and Farmington and fully agree with this.

Anonymous wrote:West Hartford, CT or some of the towns around there. Gilmore girls premise is silly though (even though I loved the show)—Rory absolutely would have had no problem going to stars hollow high and getting into the Ivy League. I would wager stars hollow high was probably a very good and solid school—I’m saying this as someone who grew up in that area (Middlesex/Hartford county) in what is considered a more blue collar CT town where at least a few kids per year went to very selective colleges.

DH and I are thinking of moving from the DMV to west Hartford/simsbury area because it’s got a really good quality of life, public schools are great, tons of good private options if that’s what you want.

It’s not super cheap (though cheaper than where I live in the DMV). And I’m not sure if it’s close enough to a big city for you. It’s about 2 hours in either direction in okay traffic to Boston and NYC.

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Anonymous wrote:Mountain Brook near Birmingham, AL

My Instagram feed somehow got infected by mom instagram accounts from Mountain Brook. I think it would be pretty magical if you were white, pretty, rich, and the right kind of Christian. I am not those things but they seem to have a really nice life.

I think any decent school district with just one HS can have that vibe.

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Anonymous wrote:Mountain Brook near Birmingham, AL

My Instagram feed somehow got infected by mom instagram accounts from Mountain Brook. I think it would be pretty magical if you were white, pretty, rich, and the right kind of Christian. I am not those things but they seem to have a really nice life.

I think any decent school district with just one HS can have that vibe.

The good news is these type of smaller towns in New England, particularly Massachusetts don’t care what your religion is or what is in your bank account. It’s not Alabama.

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Anonymous wrote:I think you’re forgetting the essential part of the town—lots of rich people and people without a real apparent source of income that nonetheless act like rich people.
For that, I vote Lenox Massachusetts. Maybe great barrington.

There are also probably some towns closer to Boston (newbury? West newton?) or in New Hampshire (Durham? Portsmouth?), in westchester (mount kisco?), or outside Chicago (highland park?).

If you want small town without the moneyed feel, there are lots more options, especially if you venture into more random parts of New England, maybe upper Michigan, etc.

I didn’t get the sense that Gilmore girls boasted a town of rich people. Well, besides Lorelai’s parents. Lanes mom, single, owned an antique store. Luke owned the Diner but he was never fancy. None of the neighbors dressed fancy or acted rich.

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:Mountain Brook near Birmingham, AL

My Instagram feed somehow got infected by mom instagram accounts from Mountain Brook. I think it would be pretty magical if you were white, pretty, rich, and the right kind of Christian. I am not those things but they seem to have a really nice life.

I think any decent school district with just one HS can have that vibe.

The good news is these type of smaller towns in New England, particularly Massachusetts don’t care what your religion is or what is in your bank account. It’s not Alabama.

Yes but instead they are insular and critical and scared of anyone new. There is less diversity and everyone is expected to live a certain way. They absolutely do care what’s in your bank account because if you’re not relatively wealthy you can’t live there.

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Falls Church City

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Middleburg, va

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Anonymous wrote:I think you’re forgetting the essential part of the town—lots of rich people and people without a real apparent source of income that nonetheless act like rich people.
For that, I vote Lenox Massachusetts. Maybe great barrington.

There are also probably some towns closer to Boston (newbury? West newton?) or in New Hampshire (Durham? Portsmouth?), in westchester (mount kisco?), or outside Chicago (highland park?).

If you want small town without the moneyed feel, there are lots more options, especially if you venture into more random parts of New England, maybe upper Michigan, etc.

I didn’t get the sense that Gilmore girls boasted a town of rich people. Well, besides Lorelai’s parents. Lanes mom, single, owned an antique store. Luke owned the Diner but he was never fancy. None of the neighbors dressed fancy or acted rich.

Lol. The homes in that town were huge. Where a single mother got the money to buy that beautiful old home is beyond me. They have unlimited funds to eat out every day.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think you’re forgetting the essential part of the town—lots of rich people and people without a real apparent source of income that nonetheless act like rich people.
For that, I vote Lenox Massachusetts. Maybe great barrington.

There are also probably some towns closer to Boston (newbury? West newton?) or in New Hampshire (Durham? Portsmouth?), in westchester (mount kisco?), or outside Chicago (highland park?).

If you want small town without the moneyed feel, there are lots more options, especially if you venture into more random parts of New England, maybe upper Michigan, etc.

I didn’t get the sense that Gilmore girls boasted a town of rich people. Well, besides Lorelai’s parents. Lanes mom, single, owned an antique store. Luke owned the Diner but he was never fancy. None of the neighbors dressed fancy or acted rich.

Lol. The homes in that town were huge. Where a single mother got the money to buy that beautiful old home is beyond me. They have unlimited funds to eat out every day.

Stars Hollow absolutely isn’t supposed to be moneyed. It’s supposed to be very blue collar CT as that is how a single mom could afford it and why the school was “bad” and not good enough for Rory to go to a good college (even though I’m the poster who grew up in CT in that area and said it was likely a good school). Lots of central CT exist like this but don’t have the cute downtown area that Stars Hollow has.

I also always found it funny Richard and Emily are in Hartford. That makes no sense for a really rich person to live in CT and be surrounded by super wealthy folks. Hartford is not wealthy at all and not where the super rich people who would have maids and cooks live. Most of the moneyed CT folk live in Fairfield County.

I’ve clearly thought too much about this 😂.

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Anonymous wrote:I will be honest, my block is like this. I am in Arlington so its not a small town, but we are hyper local here. I know everyone on our surrounding blocks and we all support each other- except for one person but we all need a bad guy in the story. community is what you make of it, you can be lucky to have great neighbors move in, but small towns can be tough to break into socially

Is this Westover? Westover people seem to fanatically insist on how folksy and close knit their “little town” is.

Yes we are in dreamland

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Lincoln or Concord, MA

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Anonymous wrote:Falls Church City

Ahh yes, that cute center square of Founders Row? Falls Church City has nothing in common with Start Hollow.