Vermont give the fewest fucks about what you do with your land. Perhaps it's them acknowledging that everything's a hill, so what you carve out, you've earned it. Trailer on a slope with cinder blocks propping up the low half? No problemo!

I agree, NH is like a demilitarized zone, always someone going from somewhere to somewhere else.

Maine has the greatest contrast between coastal yuppies and dirt farmers. NH could too but has way fewer miles of coastline.