South Edmeston, NY

Sitting right along the Unadilla River, South Edmeston is a quiet rural hamlet of fewer than two hundred residents. Daily life here moves at an easy, peaceful pace against a backdrop of rolling upstate farmland. It also has a neat claim to fame: an old local dairy plant here became the original launchpad for Chobani Greek yogurt in 2007. For anyone looking to escape to wide-open spaces and classic country living, it is about as low-key as central New York gets.