What's Cool About Farmington:
Farmington is a small college town. It has enough of the city to satisfy me: an 24 hour diner, a health food store, and a movie theater. Otherwise, there isn't "much."
There are trees throughout the town with amazingly angular branches.
There is a public library and a college library.
The Sandy River has the kind of beach that is really more a pile of rocks, but some of them are shaped like noses, and some of them can be skipped.
The sky is clear enough that you can see all of the stars if you ook hard enough on clear nights. Sometimes adventures happen at 4 in the morning that lead you to watching the stars, standing on a wire bridge over a frozen river.
There are two chinese restaurants, neither of which I have been to. There are at least three book stores, one of which sells used books and houses beautiful book nerds that will laugh at you and take you seriously at the same time. Down town is flat and you can walk in the middle of the street at night because there aren't any cars, but on the sides there are hills, and a little further away, mountains that are good for climbing with the friends you will make here.
In the basement of one of the university buildings is Everyone's Resource Depot, aka the best place on earth, where you can buy recycled everything with your pocket change. There is a coffee shop called Cherries that is sometimes open until one, with desserts and chess and sometimes live music. At the university, there are Lawn Chair Pirates to make you laugh and open mic nights to evoke various other reactions.
And there are people everywhere that will make you smile and play tag with you, make piles out of leaves or snow, to lean on drunkenly, to each french toast with in the wee hours, to knit with or to teach you how.
Need further convincing?
I might be working in Vermont this summer - I probably wouldn't move in until August or September.
There are trees throughout the town with amazingly angular branches.
There is a public library and a college library.
The Sandy River has the kind of beach that is really more a pile of rocks, but some of them are shaped like noses, and some of them can be skipped.
The sky is clear enough that you can see all of the stars if you ook hard enough on clear nights. Sometimes adventures happen at 4 in the morning that lead you to watching the stars, standing on a wire bridge over a frozen river.
There are two chinese restaurants, neither of which I have been to. There are at least three book stores, one of which sells used books and houses beautiful book nerds that will laugh at you and take you seriously at the same time. Down town is flat and you can walk in the middle of the street at night because there aren't any cars, but on the sides there are hills, and a little further away, mountains that are good for climbing with the friends you will make here.
In the basement of one of the university buildings is Everyone's Resource Depot, aka the best place on earth, where you can buy recycled everything with your pocket change. There is a coffee shop called Cherries that is sometimes open until one, with desserts and chess and sometimes live music. At the university, there are Lawn Chair Pirates to make you laugh and open mic nights to evoke various other reactions.
And there are people everywhere that will make you smile and play tag with you, make piles out of leaves or snow, to lean on drunkenly, to each french toast with in the wee hours, to knit with or to teach you how.
Need further convincing?
I might be working in Vermont this summer - I probably wouldn't move in until August or September.