way it is and tend to think that bernie sanders, as much as the boom, put burlington on the map. fred briggs, nbc news, burlington, vermont. >> i wonder if he still has that sweater? that was april, 1985. that was when the national media started to discover this eccentric, confident, curly haired socialist mayor from burlington, vermont. for a while bernie sanders was just sort of an object of national media fascination. hey, are we doing a piece about all the yuppies from the cities moving to new england? call that socialist mayor guy. >> rolling, rural, rustic and removed, for many vermont is a state of mind as well as a state if union, luring thousands from new york, from boston, from a nation that seems too much in a hurry. >> they want to live slow, they want to live quiet, they want to go to town meetings. they're trying to escape the fast lane and live the good life. >> reporter: frank brian,