Ludlow is a great snow town with stuff to do from a retail POV. You also have killington not too far away which also may offer that opportunity too.
Not sure if you’d ever want to start a business, but those places get tourists all year round. My old team member took over his family hardware store business in Londonderry VT just south of Ludlow. He’s doing really well business wise. People need that kind of stuff and box stores are not close by.
Yeah forgot about the 3rd, although that’s shaky as you alluded to.
Unless this falls apart, it doesn’t seem like something where a large part of the area is skunked. We all know the caveats, but I’m hopeful with this.
Sometimes the op runs can hint at things. For instance the ensembles hint at cold, and sometimes you see those ops drive massive arctic outbreaks into the CONUS. You know not to take them verbatim but they hint at things.