It's a rural area, overall, with Lebanon, Hanover, Harford (aka White River Junction), and Norwich making up a connected patchwork of big towns/small "city".

Housing will be expensive and take more planning than you would think to lock a place down.

There are a bunch of restaurants to check out in a 5-30 minute radius of DHMC.

Lebanon, Hanover, and Hartford have small walkable areas that are nice.

You'll be in luck if you're an outdoorsy person; there's lots of skiing relatively close, tons of hiking trails, plenty of places to drop in your kayak/canoe, and a couple rail trail sections to ride your bike in to avoid cars.

It's a pretty area, but your challenges will be finding a place to live, and meeting folks outside of work.