Inception

The quaint, rustic villages all look like something right out of a Dickens novel or a Norman Rockwell painting. The locals all greet you with a sincere smile and a “how do you like our town” attitude. The landscape transitions from the intense bright white snow in the winter to bright forest green in the summer. We have not even witnessed the autumn, the busiest tourist season for Vermont, when they say the multitude of colors in the leaves makes for the most spectacular views from the 4,000 foot mountain peaks. Vermont captured our hearts and imaginations from our very first ski trip in 2016.
It is all in very stark contrast to the steel city of Pittsburgh where three dirty brown rivers flow through a myriad of shiny steel buildings and the landscape is covered with highways and littered with strip malls and endless groups of homes packed so tightly into areas where the homes almost touch each other.
Perhaps it is because Vermont only has a population of 800,000 people so everyone can have an acre or more to live on. It also limits the need for highways and strip malls. It was the combination of all of these things that caused us to fall in love with the area so much so that as soon as I landed a work-from-home job that would permit us to move, we immediately began looking at real estate in the area.