"The Attitude"

[billski]

[h=1]Vermont: nice place to visit[/h]By CINDY ADAMS
Last Updated: 12:43 AM, January 30, 2013
New York Post



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Last year, between my enjoying Australia and Europe, Vermont’s Gov. Peter Shumlin said, “You’ve never visited Vermont.”
I said, “Where is it?”
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Stowe has 2,500 permanent citizens. Although my apartment building has more, it also has world-class dog-friendly hotels

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Conversations were: “Skiing?”. . . “No, seeing.”. . . “Snowboarding”. . . “No, sitting.”. . . “Tobogganing?”. . . “No, reading.” “Skating?”. . . “Hon, I can barely walk.” . . . “Going up on the ski lift?”. . . “Elevators I go up in.”
Stowe Mountain Lodge also features a heated pool outdoors. They close it when the weather goes below zero. Yeah. Nice, I thought.
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Gorgeous four-lane highways boast four vehicles. A traffic jam is one pickup truck a half-mile away. No lights on the highway.
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Locals have fierce rightly pride in their state. It’s polite, friendly, stress-free, everyone helping everyone. Like America used to be.
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It’s charming. It’s small town. It’s friendly. It’s innocent.
I thank Vermont’s Gov. Peter Shumlin. And I couldn’t have loved it more unless it was in New York."

uke:
'nuff said

 

[Smellytele]

'Nuff said? What was said? That is confusion...

 

[bdfreetuna]

That makes no sense. Is she trying to talk smack about VT or did she like it?

 

[billski]

Well, this explains it:

Cynthia "Cindy" Adams (née Sugar; later Heller; born April 24, 1930) is an American gossip columnist and writer.
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Adams lives and works from a nine-room penthouse apartment with a 1,000-square-foot (93 m[SUP]2[/SUP]) verandah at 475 Park Avenue in Manhattan, that she and her husband purchased from the estate of billionaire heiress Doris Duke in 1997.
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Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cindy_Adams

A little detached from the mortal wo/man, wouldn't you say...

 

[C-Rex]

I couldn't hate New York or New Yorkers anymore. They think they're the center of the effin universe.

To clarify, I mean the city and it's people. Upstaters are cool.

 

[makimono]

And I couldn’t have loved it more unless it was in New York.

Fortunately the Green Mountain Boys told New Yorkers (much like her no doubt) to Go Get Bent :uzi: and that craptastic land grab was never consummated! :flag:

 

[BenedictGomez]

A little detached from the mortal wo/man, wouldn't you say...

That article reads like she stepped onto the surface of the moon.

But I understand how she feels that way. She's one of those people who has lived her ENTIRE life on this island, only stepping off to board an aircraft which no doubt flies her to another large city, such as Chicage, LA, Paris or London. I guarantee she thinks people who grew up in rural areas are "naive" and "dumb", and she probably calls it, "flyover country" while speaking with her Manhattan-raised friends at uber-rich cocktail parties.

Living on Manhattan, I meet people like this with regularity. The great irony is that they feel they're so sophisticated and worldly, and often "better" and "smarter" than everyone else, when in reality some of these people who've spent their entire life in a city are often the most sheltered people you could meet. Just sheltered in a different way.

I couldn't hate New York or New Yorkers anymore. They think they're the center of the effin universe.

I mean the city and it's people. .

Of course, you get opinions like the above as well, which are ironically precisely as ignorant as that which he claims to denounce. Most people are not as snobby as Cindy Adams.

 

[thetrailboss]

I love how these "certain" folks can publish articles in such big publications and yet they don't even bother to do a basic fact check. The population is actually almost twice that. It took me 30 seconds to confirm that...

 

[BenedictGomez]

I love how these "certain" folks can publish articles in such big publications and yet they don't even bother to do a basic fact check. The population is actually almost twice that. It took me 30 seconds to confirm that...

Note that she said "permanent" residents though. I bet she's right; I was actually surprised it was that high. Zillions of vacation homes, snowbirds, etc...

 

[billski]

Since she lives at 475 Park Avenue in NYC. I wonder what sort of gift we could send to an 83-year old gossip columnist? I can't wait to read her report on gardening!

 

[spring_mountain_high]

it's the NY Post fer chrissakes...the trashiest of the NY Trash rags...nobody takes anything in this paper seriously, except C-Rex, I guess, who apparently hates 14 million people by virtue of geography

 

[billski]

Don't get me going...

She's not right about the census. Probably confused with the family statistic.

"As of the census[SUP][1][/SUP] of 2000, there were 4,339 people, 1,905 households, and 1,129 families residing in the town."

Source
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stowe,_Vermont

As for "quaint",
[h=3]For population 25 years and over in Stowe:[/h]

• High school or higher: 94.4%
• Bachelor's degree or higher: 54.1% versus 33% in NYC
• Graduate or professional degree: 17.6%
• Unemployed: 3.7% versus NYC at 8.8%
• Median income: NYC, 57K, Stowe: $68K

Stowe 6% below the poverty rate, NYC, 14.5%. She's probably never even met someone impoverished.

Read more: http://www.city-data.com/city/Stowe-Vermont.html#ixzz2JZFWR7SI

Stowe for sure has it's share of issues, but let he who has not sinned cast the first stone.

 

[billski]

it's the NY Post fer chrissakes...the trashiest of the NY Trash rags...nobody takes anything in this paper seriously, except C-Rex, I guess, who apparently hates 14 million people by virtue of geography

Agreed. Never needed to be educated or enlightened to write for the Post.

 

[legalskier]

This piece reflects more on the author than the subject. Any reader who's been to Vt can recognize this instantly. She titled the piece "a nice place to visit," then rips into it- that's one confused writer.
Too bad she missed out on all the fun- e.g. I've been in the heated outdoor pool at the Grand Summit during sub-freezing temps and had a wonderful swim. And that's just one small aspect of how wrong she got it.

Anyone notice how there's no "comments" section at the bottom of the piece? She doesn't care what anyone outside her circle thinks.

 

[thetrailboss]

Don't get me going...

She's not right about the census. Probably confused with the family statistic.

"As of the census[SUP][1][/SUP] of 2000, there were 4,339 people, 1,905 households, and 1,129 families residing in the town."

Source
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stowe,_Vermont

As for "quaint",
For population 25 years and over in Stowe:

• High school or higher: 94.4%
• Bachelor's degree or higher: 54.1% versus 33% in NYC
• Graduate or professional degree: 17.6%
• Unemployed: 3.7% versus NYC at 8.8%
• Median income: NYC, 57K, Stowe: $68K

Stowe 6% below the poverty rate, NYC, 14.5%. She's probably never even met someone impoverished.

Read more: http://www.city-data.com/city/Stowe-Vermont.html#ixzz2JZFWR7SI

Stowe for sure has it's share of issues, but let he who has not sinned cast the first stone.

That's what I saw for the census as well. My point was just that I was always taught that before offering something for publication to check, recheck, and check again your basic facts so that you don't come across as a complete idiot. Population is a pretty basic thing to check. Heaven forbid if you're the reporter who just blindly believed, without checking, that an an amazing love story that inspired a college football team was in fact the real deal. :lol:

 

[thetrailboss]

This piece reflects more on the author than the subject. Any reader who's been to Vt can recognize this instantly. She titled the piece "a nice place to visit," then rips into it- that's one confused writer.
Too bad she missed out on all the fun- e.g. I've been in the heated outdoor pool at the Grand Summit during sub-freezing temps and had a wonderful swim. And that's just one small aspect of how wrong she got it.

Anyone notice how there's no "comments" section at the bottom of the piece? She doesn't care what anyone outside her circle thinks.

Yeah exactly. It made me :lol:

 

[Cannonball]

Agreed. Never needed to be educated or enlightened to write for the Post.

Or read it.

 

[BenedictGomez]

She's probably never even met someone impoverished.

Not true. I'd guess at least a few of the folks at her local deli or coffee counter that she "tolerates" with contempt and disgust are below the poverty line. She probably carries a small bottle of Purell in her $6,500 handbag in case one of them touches her.

She titled the piece "a nice place to visit," then rips into it- that's one confused writer.

Actually, I interpreted that an entirely different way than you did.

I took "a nice place to visit" as an insult as well. As in, "it's a nice place to visit, BUT I sure as hell wouldn't want to live there".

 

[ScottySkis]

it's the NY Post fer chrissakes...the trashiest of the NY Trash rags...nobody takes anything in this paper seriously, except C-Rex, I guess, who apparently hates 14 million people by virtue of geography

I hate the NY Post, I read the free AM paper and the Village Voice.

 

[BenedictGomez]

I hate the NY Post, I read the free AM paper and the Village Voice.