Look at VT on google maps with the satellite view; that will answer your question on public transportation (there is none outside of some parts of chittenden co)

> Allow developers to come in and mandate a certain percentage for low income residents. Problem solved.

That's not what developers are going to want. They want to make high dollar, high profit units.

> rent-to-own communities

people will take offense to that. urban sprawl, property ownership, those are things a lot of folks deem satanic.

Zoning can handle this in larger towns.

Altitude makes a difference.

Most of Massachusetts population is near the coast, less than 100 feet in altitude, and warmed or moderated by water.

Vermont average altitude is 1000 feet.

Even when we assume people in Vermont are in valleys, at 500 feet, that makes a difference. Plus no sea weather moderation.

Too much BANANA NIMBY in Vermont to expect any major success in development, especially when it concerns "affordable" housing. Everyone agrees it's a good idea, but nobody wants it anywhere near their own house.

It's too easy to stymie development in VT. People and "interested groups" will use any excuse available to delay and increase costs in an attempt to prevent new housing. They'll say the impact of new development on local traffic will be detrimental, that the infrastructure can't sustain the predicted traffic volume, and sue in court. They'll say the new development doesn't adequately address drainage concerns and will damage a fragile, nearby bog ecosystem that nobody previously gave a shit about, and sue in court. And then, and then, and then...

Paid leave. Paid. Imagine any other job where you get a paid vacation while they investigate you for theft.

>Ultimately what's really a threat to Vermonters is a broken property tax system. As property values increase, so do property taxes and just like California and Colorado, eventually the taxes alone will evict the poor from their homes opening it up for rich people to take everything Vermonters worked for.

Already happening.

Imagine how much Sergeants and higher ranking troopers must make, especially if they've been in the State Police for 10 years or more.

You're asking this now, on December 28th? You intend to come January 1-6? No lead time at all eh? Hoping for the best with accommodations?

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GREAT WAR

The climate in Massachusetts is actually very different then the one in Vermont

there will be NO SNOW

These schnozzberries taste like schnozzberries

Cause they’re dumb virtue signalers. Any country south of the US will get hit exponentially worse. An American climate refugee is a joke

If you make under a certain amount in Vermont then they forgive a certain percentage of your property tax. I got 30% back last year and ‘my partner and I are both middle income. Easy enough to scale up this program if needed, especially with home values going up so much.

Zoning is not the only barrier. It’s very expensive to source building materials in Vermont, and labor is scarce/expensive. The only thing that pencils right now for a lot of developers are large multifamily apartment buildings and the rents needed to cover costs are high even for middle incomes.

I live next to Hartland and Sharon - neither town has any zoning and there’s been hardly any new development, despite being pretty close to the Upper Valley core.

Yes, let developers build within reason and mandate affordability to the extent possible. But we also need to increase public subsidies, build social housing, and scale up other public assistance programs.

Every time the lottery jackpot gets really huge I buy a ticket. And then I fantasize about what I'll do with the money. At this point the plans are fairly elaborate. But the basics of it is that I will create rent-to-own communities with rent commensurate with people's income so that as many people as possible have the opportunity to own their own home.

It’s why I moved back.

And moving from Massachusetts to Vermont will make a big difference in climate? This makes little sense.

Hoping the rubber doesn't break? Been there.

You need to get one every year. It was last year the truck has almost 50,000

My sketchy inspections guy got shut down with the new rules a couple years ago. My newer sketchy inspections guy told me to go else where with my rusty dump truck as he was only one enforcement away from losing his certification.

To be clear, the truck is fine. Just a three inch crack in the upper left corner of the windshield that I’m not inclined to replace.

What happened to good old fashioned research? You could have answered your own questions relatively quickly. If you aren't even aware of our public transportation situation you would probably benefit from doing your own research before coming here.