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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I grew up in northern VT and went to a middling high school. Yes, it was less stressful and less competitive, but there was also a lot that we didn't have-- and the adults didn't even know other kids had. College was a rude awakening because I never developed good study skills or experience with challenging material. Making the state championship in VT in whatever sport or subject usually means you still totally suck by Massachusetts or New York standards.

Do NOT underestimate the drug problem in rural areas. There is no drug you can't get, and everyone's on pills or worse. My high school class has many ODs already and I'm not even 45. If you move to the country, you're giving up a lot of the things that might engage your child's interest, and exposing them instead to middling academics or worse, and a ready supply of drugs.[/quote]

My cousin a raising her family in a suburb of Burlington, VT (where her spouse is from) and it seems frankly idyllic apart from the winters. [/quote]

Burlington, South Burlington, and Essex are great. Montpelier's good. Brattleboro's good. Norwich is good. But even in towns with well-performing schools, the drug problem is terrible. The small towns and most rural part of the state are a place I could never raise kids.

One time I saw a boys hockey game between Hanover and Stowe and good lord it was violent.[/quote]

That sounds like a Vermont thing, not a rural thing. I grew up in a small rural town and didn’t know anyone in school who even smoked pot. It wasn’t until I moved to dc that I heard it was even a thing in high school. [/quote]

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