South Lincoln and commute via the Ripton road. But your wife would probably hate being that isolated.
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Bristol is the place. Close to everything and not as isolated as Lincoln. Better eats than Midd imho. Did my masters at midd and love the town. If you mtb in the summer it is hard to beat.
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Not much BC close to Bristol, though there is some, due to being on the west side of the range. That being said Bristol is a real town with a great mix of residents and a nice friendly downtown complete with town square. Easy [great snows] access to MRV skiing and 116 to Chittenden Co for other needs. Great 4th celebration with outhouse races, much better than the Warren 4th.
Lincoln doesn't have as much community to offer.
That's good to know about about Bristol. I figured that we would want to try to stay as close to central Middlebury/the college as possible just for its little shot of cosmopolitan culture. It's good to hear about other areas with good dining/community nearby, as the housing market is not ample.
Also, I very much do mountain bike in the summer. The mountain biking where I live is one of the things that makes it hard to consider leaving.
Well there's only wo houses for sale in Bristol but they both seem pretty cool and they're not way overpriced.
What activities do you want your kid to do? Summer swim team for example? Driving into Middlebury every morning for that plus swim meets twice a week on Tues and Thursday gets old. Of course Vergennes also has a pool and a team. So if you're out in the sticks in say Starksboro or Monkton, you could take your pick. The point is, you're going to want to do enrichment for the kid and it's VT. Whether it's multiple season sports or academics, you should factor where and when and how far you want to travel from home for that, in addition to biking and skiing and work.
^ good point. I have a neighbor that just moved from the base of Magic down to Manchester (VT) because they were making that trip too often (more than 1x per day) for kid hockey/baseball/school.
Bristol is a beautiful place but it's really small. Not much variety for food and beverages. Definitely going to get more of that in Midd.
Yep, I'm pretty spoiled now. My son and I bike to school in the morning. We walk to the town pool or rec center for sports. We walk to our town's restaurants/bars. The only time we really have to drive is for soccer, which is at a park a couple of miles away. I do have to drive to work now, but it isn't bad. Still, I miss my previous job where I lived right off campus and biked in in about 2 minutes.
The area in general. Chipman and TAM can be accessed w/out a car from Midd, and there are various trail networks in Bristol yoy can drive to. The silver lake access (10 mins from Midd) gives you lots of woic ride options with more going in.
And the gravel/road riding around Midd and Bristol is killer.
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Thanks, that's really helpful.
It's funny, I ended up in my current town as I interviewed for a job out here, then took an extra day to ride the nearby trail network and liked the town it was in. But then I had a definite transition phase where I really missed the forest and dirt that isn't super dry. Now I've really gotten used to desert riding and would have a hard time giving up the trails out here with their scope, year round availability (though only for short, early rides in the summer), and options for sheer nasty challenge if so desired. I do love riding bikes in the woods though.
And in the end, those bastards didn't offer me the job! Apparently they felt a woman wanting to move back to the area was "the safer option for a successful search" apparently. Apparently they didn't hear me talk about Snowbowl...
Actually I was totally cool with it. Middlebury was somewhere that I absolutely think I'd have liked living, so it was worth applying, but I really like where I am and wasn't super keen to leave the West and current job. I liked it enough, though, that it would have been a hard choice had they offered it to me, so at least this was the one option that left me with no regrets.
Thanks everyone for all the info in any case!
As much as I liked the idea of you moving to VT, it wasn't meant to be.
Wish it had turned out differently. Sometimes what we want isn’t really what we need. Sounds like status quo is going to work out for you.
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