All these liberal areas are not it you want a place with southern charm

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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.

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 😂.

That house, even though it is supposed to be in a blue collar town, would be way out of a single mom’s budget. Mom was a maid at the inn and then moved up to manager. So unrealistic.

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.

The problem with Lenox is that it has so many summer/weekend residents that it becomes hard to have the same type of community feel all of the time.

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Anonymous wrote:I live in a city, Hoboken, but it sort of has that vibe. It is hyper-local with friendly faces everywhere and yet the city is right there.

Awww. Lived in Hoboken for years and I’ll always miss it. I used to describe it to people as being like a Richard Scarry book come to life.

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Anonymous wrote:Falls Church City

100%. We even have the wacky small town characters. It was much more like SH ten years ago, though. The development boom and surge in housing prices has taken away some of the small town vibe, but as someone with kids in the schools, it still feels VERY small.

Locally - Falls Church City or Hyattsville

Anonymous wrote:Guilford, Connecticut is very close.

-CT native and fan of the show

Depending on what your threshold is for closeness to a big city, I’d say almost any coastal Amtrak Northeast Corridor town from Guilford CT to East Greenwich or Middletown RI.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes. I briefly lived in Milford, CT (Yale) and Skillman, NJ (Princeton). However you can find this near the small midwestern liberal arts schools as well, like Hiram, Kenyon, or Oberlin in Ohio.

There are also towns all over that aren’t college towns, but still have that small town feel. Hudson, Ohio and Summit, NJ are two I am aware of but surely there are hundreds of similar places.

Adding. I grew up in Ohio in a college town. Put aside the style of the houses, the age/history of the town, and the level of affluence. I think what you are looking for is a community where people are not transient and have deep ties, where people have the education and style or tastes that often come with wealth, but where people are not necessarily wealthy or if they are, no one talks about it. Growing up in a very middle-class town in the rust belt, being a college town meant that I was surrounded by educated adults who valued education. We had access to independent movies, a great local book store, vegetarian restaurants, art exhibits, theatre performances, visiting speakers, and other social and cultural amenities that a small town would not normally have.
You can find those towns both in the NE and Midwest, albeit with slightly different vibes.

Yes. I briefly lived in Milford, CT (Yale) and Skillman, NJ (Princeton). However you can find this near the small midwestern liberal arts schools as well, like Hiram, Kenyon, or Oberlin in Ohio.

There are also towns all over that aren’t college towns, but still have that small town feel. Hudson, Ohio and Summit, NJ are two I am aware of but surely there are hundreds of similar places.

I have a friend who loves Lawrenceburg, Indiana and often compares it to Star’s Hollow. I have no idea about private school availability.

Anonymous wrote:And can I raise my kids there? Close knit, small community, down to earth, kind, charming but also close enough to a big city and within 30 min drive of amazing private school. The best of all worlds.

They do exist all across the map. There are downsides of living in that type of town though. Btdt.

It boggles the mind that people are still obsessing about a mediocre show that ended more than 15 years ago.

Anonymous wrote:Bryn Athyn, PA. But rarely do houses come up for sale- they are passed through family. One is actually available now. Seriously the most peaceful and lovely community I’ve ever seen, close knit and everything you could want. Happiest place on earth!

Hershey, PA is nice. If you don’t want the amazing privates in Harrisburg or Lancaster nearby you can do a virtual/onsite charter gifted school for free. Great place to raise kids. More diversity than you’d expect.

I grew up 15 minutes away from Bryn Athyn and always thought it had creepy inbred vibes because of the Pitcairns and Academy of the New Church. If they all know each other it’s because they’re actually related…