Andrew Churchill said:
What was wrong with St. Johnsbury?
Tom C.
we had to move w/o much research. there were a few houses we thought might be good for us to buy there. but in our price range it turned out they looked much worse in real life than on the realtors site (duh)
but i mean the one i thought would be good was just awful up close. and they wanted way too much.
the youtube i found later that the realtor put up, with string quartet music, just cracked me up. come on, man!
other than that, the apartment we landed in, while it served a purpose and let us have our cat there, was not really pleasant.
when the woman downstairs and the several adults (in laws, siblings and such), who she was sheltering started smoking, it would rise up and our eyes would literally water.
and i'm not excessively sensitive to smoke.
so i can't really say we looked very closely to find the good points of the town.
the first day i got there with the 17ft. truck full of our stuff, having driven from morristown nj, we discovered that the electricity was shut off from the last tenant having first moved to the downstairs apt. then not paying the upstairs bill. then bailing altogether.
add to that that we were told that the town would be shutting the water off the next for the rebuild project that was going on...
but it wasn't just all that. i just didn't like the feel of the town.
to be honest, it was just overall depressing to me there. what can i say?
what i miss from there is charter cable company. $50 a month, non special offer fee, 14 meg internet and unlimited digital phone service.
and the pizza from the place with the big old smokestack.
oh and there was a bitchin' radio station too.
as it is, i couldn't be much happier with where we did end up.
i love this house. just so solid and well built. and at a price that i never imagined we'd see.
and i love the town too.