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I spent far too much time in the mid-Hudson Valley in the early to mid-'90s, in the company of a fellow progressive organizer. Basically what you have is tiny little outposts of chewy progressive goodness, especially New Paltz with its Green mayor, embedded in a rock-hard, inedible matrix of disgusting repukeitude. Even places like "Puke-ipsie" that should know better are Red. (Vassar is, however, another of those outposts, and it'd be worth considering if academia's your thing; it is MUCH cooler since it went co-ed a while back, complete with cats in dorms!, plus it probably pays better than SUNY.)
New Paltz just got through having a series of autism-related events built around a "One Book" program, featuring some of my colleagues as presenters. I suppose if it came to that I could scope them out.
You probably already know or have guessed this, but a consequence of the political miasma is that the phrase "public transportation" is as much of an oxymoron up there as, say, "conservative thinker". Everyone has to drive a car to get anywhere. And I know how you (presumably) feel about cars...
Oh, I just saw "development". Crikey. You can pretty much write your own ticket in development. You could find another, more progressive rural area, like maybe Ithaca or someplace. I even see ads for development types out here...
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