Looking for an affordable area to move to in New England--Any suggestions for the budget concious?|157300

We enjoy the outdoors (mountain biking, camping, fishing, hiking, snowboarding, boating, etc) and are looking to get away from the hot, humid summers of southern Pennsylvania. I_ve always loved New England, and have spent a lot of time with family in Massachuesettes. We_re severly budget deprived, but would love to move north. She is finishing her masters in Regualtory Affairs; he works in a Library/Archives and edits manuscripts on the side. Are there any quaint areas in upstate New York, or throughout New England that won_t break the bank, are within reasonable distance of employment, but are still close to the beautiful outdoors?

It gets humid in New England too, pal!

Housing affordability is unfortunatly difficult and salaries much more modest than metro Boston-Providence almost everywhere in the more mountainous and rural areas of New England except maybe in impoverished areas like extreme northern New Hampshire and northern and way down east Maine. Taking that into account, you would most likely find contentment and jobs suiting you and lots of intellectual peers
in the northwestern Vermont arc from Montpelier to Burlington to St. Albans, the Rte US 7 corridor from just south of Williamstown, MA to Middlebury, VT, the Pioneer Valley / Connecticut River Valley area (Amherst-Northhampton-Deerfield to Brattleboro), central southwestern NH (centering on Peterborough) and, of course, the Upper Valley area within 25 miles of Dartmouth University in Hanover, NH.