30 Things You Need To Know About The Hudson Valley

The Huffington Post recently printed a list of the 30 things you need to know about the Hudson Valley before moving there.  For those of us who already live here, it's fun to take a look at what our metropolitan friends to the south think it's like to be us.  Luckily, it's all good!

Among some of our best attributes, the list mentions awesome music festivals like Mountain Jam, award winning restaurants run by Culinary Institute of America graduates, beautiful scenery, locally grown apples and other fruits, quirky towns like Woodstock and Beacon and an abundance of Liberal Arts colleges that keep us all feeling young.

Outside of the tourist attractions, it seems as though we're also viewed as a pretty friendly place.  Number 5 warns former Manhattanites that up here, strangers WILL start conversations with you.  Click through for the full list, and if you think they missed anything, let us know in the comments section below.