I have kids. An entire afternoon dedicated to any, one task sounds like a Vacation.

Luckily we don't have to imagine because the publicly accessible salary database is linked directly in the article everyone here definitely read.

This is the answer

I've never understood the reasoning. I had a jeep I couldn't sell because it wouldn't pass inspection due to a few minor things. I ended up selling it for parts.

How's the leather taste?

> and have no rights to any of the stolen “land to admire”

People like you can fuck right off. Do you own land use the roads or do anything here in VT? If so according to your retarded logic you must leave as it's "stolen land". Anyone who pushes this shit is a moron.

Yeah, it's messed up. They really need to have private liability insurance just like doctors and lawyers, and structural engineers and contractors, truck drivers and mechanics and commercial fishman. In fact, it's really weird that they don't!

less than $50 dollar sunday afternoon activity. You can even drink while you do it.

Good point, we should do the right thing and just fire people without cause.

YOU WILL OWN NOTHING AND BE HAPPY!

it's funny how ya'll turn republican when it comes to car inspections.

It is not happening at any real scale. Even the pandemic's migration that vt digger called an "explosion" (in my opinion, irresponsibly so) was only a .7% population increase. That is absolutely tiny. Before that, we were seeing a net migration out of the state.

That's not to say it won't happen, but Vermonters talk a lot about the influx of "out-of-staters" moving here anytime housing comes up. Everyone has a story about the house their buddy wanted to buy but some out of stater bought it in all cash sight unseen. Those are investors, not people moving here. It is exceedingly rare for regular families to buy houses in cash sight-unseen.

Investors are buying more than 20% of all SFH on the market. This is an international phenomenon, affecting people from huge cities like London and Vancouver to the towns our delightful little backwater. As wealth inequality reaches increasingly insane levels, large investment firms are looking for more places to deploy their ever-increasing capital, and they are moving more and more of their money into buying property, making housing increasingly unaffordable for regular people.

This is a rent trap. Younger generations are being forced to become lifelong renters, creating a generation of lucrative investments for the largest landlords and screwing over everyone else. When we talk about the influx of out-of-staters, it suits them. It diverts the attention from the real problem. Don't let the rich get away with it while we squabble amongst ourselves fighting over scraps.

> unnecessary bodywork

So you'd rather get whacked with fines rather than spending a sunday afternoon with some bondo and sand paper? man you're basic.

that would be pretty groovy.

careful though: taxes will eat you alive, not just with property taxes, but on those sick gainz too.

I'm still shocked about how the vermont subreddit views single family homes and all. folks keep advocating for these huge apartment buildings thinking we have the infrastructure to handle a huge people box and yet the buses don't even run on time. Additionally, single family homes open the opportunity for ownership in more than just owning a POS - you have room to do shit and privacy that comes with that. I know if I was living in an apartment building I'd be evicted for making guitars and all other craft projects I do. No one wants to be smelling my lacquer, nor do they want to hear my power tools at 2 am when creativity strikes.

I like this.

Right, but lawmakers are easily corrupted when big money decides to find its way here as a refuge from climate change.

The Caledonian Record says it was a stolen Rolex - allegedly

agreed - but let's not forget the real crux of the issue - the cost of housing is too damn high, wages get higher that will likely affect the cost of goods. it's like we need to cost of housing to come down, and wages to go up. Cost of goods is fucking your wallet just as much as housing.

Vehicle inspections in VT have gotten pretty crazy in the last few years. Certainly makes it harder to keep an older, cheaper car on the road. And I'm sure it's by design. But my big question is, if you're driving an $800 car that failed VT inspection, what the hell are you doing moving to Vermont in the first place? This state is not kind to those who don't have means. And to come from Central NY? I am originally from CNY and I know that it costs much less to live there, in general. You're fighting an uphill battle. Unless you're intentionally living below your means, driving this POS, I'm going to assume that you're probably going to take more $$$ in services from the state than you pay in taxes. Maybe that's the point.

> If this pace keeps up we'll be homeless and forced out.

forced out by taxes or flat landers with fat bank?

> why are Vermont legislators waiting on an inevitable catastrophe to deal with the immediate problem of a housing crisis affecting Vermonters now?

you're new to politics I guess.. It was the same thing even under democratic governorship. we're boned either way.

indeed mr. pickler

> states are going to become more uninhabitable due to climate induced events

cant wait to see that play out. the earth shall take back what is rightfully theirs.

Probably, but if I've just won a $500 million lottery I can afford to calm a lot of people down. ;)

> labor is scarce/expensive.

best time to get into the trades if you wanna make some real money. None of that smith barney bullshit needed. Just a can do attitude and the willingness to learn on the job.