Has anyone ever lived in one of those small, Hallmark style US towns?

[BabyLlamaZen]

I know it's not real, but I do have a guilty pleasure watching them all around Christmas. Think 'My Christmas Inn', 'Christmas made to order', that sort of thing.

The romantic in me loves the idea of swooping into one of these gorgeous towns, (local hunk on hand of course!), set up my own coffee/bookshop, that kind of thing. Live at the local diner.

Has anyone actually stayed in one of these places or know what they're really like?

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I'm going to note down all the towns mentioned above and look them up. A holiday there once we can travel again would be so welcome.

I've visited Niagara-on-the-Lake a few times but never stayed there. It smacks of Hallmark. On the surface at least. Very pretty.

Niagara on the Lake is lovely and there are lots of villages in the surrounding area that are a little less touristy. It’s really not isolated either as it is a manageable drive to Toronto and also to Buffalo. Both have airports with very cheap flights to New York.

I found a website once for the most beautiful small towns in Kansas it was amazing to see the amount of celebration days and sense of community these where extremely small towns though

I have some friends who live in just such a lovely, quaint, picturesque small southern town. The downsides are that they are A - surrounded by bible-bashing Trump supporters, and B - they get regularly blasted by hurricanes.

Very briefly lived for 6 months in a small town in Pennsylvania, Full of rednecks and people wearing wolf t-shirts with non-ironic 80s mullets. Rife for drink driving as there are no taxis. State fairs are not hallmark meet-cute venues, just full of belligerent drunk men and deep fried food (ok, funnel cake is actually delicious). Lots of exotic wildlife - bedbugs, ticks and bears..

As people say most of these places are ok if you are white straight have cash and Christian
Not it you are not

As people say most of these places are ok if you are white straight have cash and Christian
Not it you are not

This x 100. If you aren't rich as fuck, these places are hell holes with nice main streets and knick knack stores that you can't afford to shop in.

@SillyUnMurphy

I went to University in one of those small Hallmark towns on the East Coast. I was on a six month exchange and I came back just before Christmas, so was there for the Holiday season. It was beautiful and the University campus was the heart of the town. We had lush, thick snow and everything

I live in one of those - I wonder if it's the same one.

It really is lovely, and I never want to leave.

@Barmyfarmy

Has anyone stayed in a similar tiny town in Vermont? DH and I are looking to buy a holiday home in either Vermont or outskirts of NY

Stowe and Manchester in Vermont.

Randomly came across this on youtube and thought of this thread!