When we investigated the towns that had the came up,we discovered that apparently someone had already done this work ahead of us. All the warm towns that had a decent number of college kids already had homemade ice-cream parlors. So we threw out the temperature criterion and ended up in Burlington, Vermont. Burlington had a young population, a significant college population, and virtually no competition. Later, we realized the reason why there why there was no competition. It's so cold in Burlington for so much of the year, and the summer season is so short, it was obvious (to everyone except up) that there was no way an ice cream parlor could succeed there. Or so it seemed.