Own a Grocery/Post Office in Ripton VT

[j44ke]

This is actually my dream job.

Opinion | Vermont Town Seeks a Heart, and Soul (Also Milk and Eggs) - The New York Times

[robin3mj]

Sounds like heaven. How are the elementary schools?

[j44ke]

Just wait until your kids are college age and then send them to Middlebury down the hill.

[SteveP]

ff 5 years...
here is Jorn " livin' large on $18k a year in Vt.."

"Jorn, When does this cheese go on sale? I don't need it til next week..."

[thomas]

The other cool thing about that store is that it's right on Middlebury Gap. Go out your front door and you're in the middle of the climb - two miles up and two miles down.

Have to say, though, I never stop at that store, either in a car or on my bike.

Elementary school? There's one within walking distance of that store. Pretty nice one, actually.

There's some good gravel riding there too. One dirt road connects Middlebury Gap to Lincoln Gap - it was part of the LAMB fondo a few years ago.

[j44ke]

Velocipede HQ NE. All the pickled eggs you can eat.

[davids]

Just wait until your kids are college age and then send them to Middlebury down the hill.

There goes your $18k/year, huh?

But hey, sure!
This sounds exactly like a dream.
Logic and all.

[j44ke]

Logic?

[s_curran]

real estate is cheap in that area, we were actually pretty darn close (even put in some offers) on a house right by there. It was bigger than we could handle for a reno project (doing it ourselves) but it came with beautiful land and a sugar shack.

I've been thinking about what I could do if my partners job ever went mobile (mine wont). This could be the calling. Hard commute by bike though with a few choices of gap roads over the green mountains.

[davids]

Logic?

I'm sorry!

[abbeyQ]

Reminds me of the country store in my mom's home town in Missouri. My grandpa sent me there as an early teen to go get a fresh case of beer. The propriter had to tell me the beverage of choice and put it on the old man's tab. Times have changed.