Margolis: Vermont’s future as the un-Boston

Middlebury, with a population of 8,500, is one of Vermont’s larger towns. Wikimedia Commons photo by Alan Levine(Jon Margolis writes political columns for VTDigger.)
Vermonters: Do you want your state to be more prosperous?
Simple. Just create metropolitan areas.
How about quintupling (at least) the population of Bennington and its county? Then persuade 200,000 or so folks from other states or countries to move into the Northeast Kingdom.
Presto! Instead of having one metropolitan area, Ve