Vermont is a place full of beauty and charm, but also realities of life, hard work and poverty. It suffers from all the ills that other places do, but there's a working knowledge of those hardships, in many cases.

Vermonters seem to have a common awareness of being in this particular place. They seem to have agreed to be identified with this place, and there is often a high sense of volunteerism, or participation.

Home, family, hard work, great friends, landscape and environment connected to people directly (like firewood and gardens), etc

Independence, town meeting and decision making in communities. Local control, small scale, and willingness to help, with a yankee stubbornness and self-reliance.

Home. Hills trees water family and community. Strong honest congressional delegation.

Independence.

Vermont has been my home for 75+ years. It is a beautiful rural state.

Vermont's beauty and its rural nature.

A state with a unique personality, apparent as soon as the border is crossed. My home; shared with everyone else connected to Vermont.

Sense of place Schedule governed by the seasons Interdependence Hard work

A welcome step back from the rest of our country gone mad.

Knowing (not thinking) that less is more, thinking ahead about energy issues, appreciating solitude.

Vermont is a place where people respect and enjoy each other, let people live as they choose, and are helpful with those who have few choices. We are mostly a modest, reasonable group of people with opinions and are more positive about our State than most Americans. We think Vermont has character and we want it to stay that way.

A place where people have political agency and an corrupted place to live.

Do unto others, protect the landscape, balance the forces of capitalism with common sense.

I was born here and appreciate the high quality of life, four seasons, and wonderful geography. Unfortunately the state has been taken over politically by trust fund utopian minded fiscal liberals who have created a socialist state. The upper middle class is being driven out of the state by high taxes.

The true Vermonters value fierce independence, freedom, and the environment. The new Vermonters (the imported trust fund liberals) value socialism and regulation cloaked as concern for the environment.