But then things changed or did I?

A lot of it was the realization that there are many small towns nestled in the hills and hollows and that the area I once called home in the shadows of the Catskills really isn’t that unique or special.

There really are many great areas of similar lifestyle, and indeed the best of the hilltowns is when you head west into Schoharie County in the deep rural, beyond easy commuting distance where the hollows grow deep, the country and the people wild.

Places not in urban states like New York were urban thinking dominates and policies generally serve the people of the rural countryside poorly and with contempt.