The City Side
Northampton
Northampton is our urban Eden, where you can pretend you’ re in NYC without the crowds.
We drink our cocktails with a little dirt under our nails because we hit the sweet spot of earthy meets worldly, with world-class museums and inventive restaurants next to historic buildings and nature trails.
Plus, we’ re super friendly in an invite-you-to-dinner kind of way, and we even painted a crosswalk in rainbow colors to declare our support of the LGBTQ + community. Northampton has been named the most liberal city in the U. S., the lesbian capital of America, and the best small arts town in the nation. Visitors often tell us Northampton is a place where they can be themselves.
Familiars Coffee + Tea
The city is also home to Smith College, a topranked women’ s liberal arts college with an art museum where you can see both a Picasso and exquisitely painted restrooms. We boast historic theaters, too many bookstores to count, several breweries, and a bountiful farmer’ s market. People who travel here be warned: Northampton casts a strange spell that might have you moving here within a year, swapping a hyper-speed life for a chill pace in a cosmopolitan, close-knit city.
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