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Originally Posted by Ecky
You're right, not as "middle of nowhere". Burlington is 2 hours from Montreal and 3.5 hours from Boston, and you can get just about anything you could desire here despite the small population. There's also an international airport.
Eastern Vermont is very scarcely populated, most towns are only a few thousand people and have a very isolated feel (3-4 family names in total and the streets are named after them), but you're never more than 1.5-2 hours from Burlington or Boston due to the state's small size. I live half an hour north of the city now in a town with around 10k people - property values are around half here what they would be in town and I have a lot more land.
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I was actually talking about my area with that comment. However, between my town of 6,500 and the town I work in, there is only two other towns, together less than 500 people. Past the town I work in, it's 100 miles to the capital city (~80k in the 'metro'), and one town of about 800 between there. Past the capital it's another 140 miles to the next city of 25,000 or so, with
nothing between but cows, some wheat, and a couple bumps in the road that consist of a gas-station and the people that run it.
50 miles east of my town is Fargo, with a 'metro' population of ~250,000. While Fargo seems like a big deal to us up here (my wife and I actually buy all our groceries there, much cheaper), on the national scale it's still quite small.
That's all on the I-94 corridor, away from the interstate it's even thinner, perhaps matched only by mountainous Wyoming, and for some reason western SD.