Recent comments in /f/vermont

sn0qualmie t1_j22irkh wrote

Reply to comment by PsychologicalBite468 in Am I the only one here, or are Vermonts road markings disappear when the roads wet? by euro_trash_rescue

I really need some kind of signal light on my car that communicates "hey person behind me, your high beams are on/your insanely bright headlights are in my face and I can't see a damn thing right now, it would be to everyone's benefit if you either turned them down or went around me or both."

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EpictetussutetcipE t1_j22i3yo wrote

Reply to Balancing trespassers with being neighborly by c_l_who

I recently let my dogs out to do their business for the night and was calling them back in... someone in my woods yelled out, "Fuck you!".

I've been sick and unable to find my property stakes, let alone post my property, but once I recover I'll be posting my property. My neighbors and anyone who cares to ask me know that I'm okay with hunters. But now they'll be forced to ask... not that it'll stop some of them.

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Walnut2001 t1_j22hm9f wrote

Reply to UVM too expensive by Constant_Education_4

Uvm really has lost its charm too. Burlington is kinda going downhill fast, the university is over enrolled and every aspect of the school is overcrowded which puts a huge strain on the housing market. The new administration seems to focus on maximum profit at the expense of student safety/services... not to mention department cuts with higher ups in the school getting pay raises. 30 year professors/researchers are getting payed 3x less than administrators in charge of mitigating lawsuits due to sweeping sexual assault under the carpet.

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cornman1998 t1_j22c5i6 wrote

Reply to Balancing trespassers with being neighborly by c_l_who

I'll start off with a personal story, and then offer a few things to consider.

Story:

When I was a kid, there was a long trail that ran behind a bunch of neighbors houses. I used to walk this trail for years. When I grew up, I left and came back on a visit at one point years later. I was walking the trail one day and a guy came running out of his house, waving his arms, and explained very firmly to me that this was no longer allowed. In a similar vein, this was because a different neighbor had been getting drunk and riding his quad around this guys property late at night. I was incredibly angry at this rebuke, but told him I'd stop. I wasn't angry at him because I felt like the trail was "mine", but instead because I had this kind of connection to it. You know? It was a very special feeling of being able to walk the same path for my entire life. It was his choice, and his call...it was his land after all. I just felt this terrible anger about it because I felt like it was kind of like taking back a statue that had been put up in the center of town. It wasn't owned by me or the town, but the loss of that thing hurt in a very personal, sentimental way.

Considerations:

  1. If you'd like to institute some sort of compromise, perhaps you could put up signs explicitly saying what people should do, rather than assume they know what not to do.

    "Before entering, call this number... Unwelcome guests and trespassers will ... Do not damage the land in the following ways ..." Something like that. If you cut out the excuses people dish up, then hopefully fewer problems would occur. I suppose depending on how egregious things got, you could escalate things from there. Personally, I would have demanded the person word that they would pay for the damage, if they had purposefully destroyed my fence.

  2. On the flip side, it might not hurt to try and cut some of the more clueless people a tiny bit of slack, too. I would think that if I, say, asked the same fellow once a week for a full year, "Do you mind if I go through here?" And he says "Sure, yeah!" each time, would it make sense to keep asking? It wouldn't necessarily be me thinking "Oh, this is mine" but instead something more like, "Why am I going to keep bothering this guy with asking?" I suppose you might see things differently, but it might not hurt to think on it.

  3. Also, do keep in mind that, unless these are people that know you pretty well, they might feel some apprehension about banging on your door. "The locals told me they go through this guys land all day, every day. Why am I going to check with him first? What if he isn't even home? What if he's in a rotten mood and doesn't want visitors?" Etc. I've noticed some of the younger generations can get very skittish about talking to strangers - even if those "strangers" happen to be only be a few roads down, and have lived there for years. There's a kind of assumption of "extreme privacy", people tend to assume they're "bugging" someone by coming up unannounced. I can't quite explain it.

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TwoNewfies t1_j22bnia wrote

Reply to comment by Mountain_Cash7913 in Best fish and chips by aqhamills

I only ate there once, on a gallery walk evening, because I had heard these great reviews. The oil was truly old and then I looked into the kitchen. A door was open and there were flies all over. Not going back. Maybe the Falafel is better than the fish and chips we had but still wouldn't be enough to return.

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Hagardy t1_j22az5m wrote

Reply to comment by HappilyhiketheHump in UVM too expensive by Constant_Education_4

state funding is less than 5% of the budget compared to nearly 25% for states like Florida. There’s a clear and obvious reason tuition is high, but sure, pretend like there’s some magical way to get blood from a stone.

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Dire88 t1_j22axyg wrote

Reply to comment by TheShandyMan in Balancing trespassers with being neighborly by c_l_who

>The difference being, a tree in the woods is only considered worth whatever it would be in lumber value.

Well, it depends. If it is an active sugarbush, or it can be proven it was purchased/maintained with intent to use as a future sugarbush, you can include agricultural losses in the damages.

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NonDeterministiK t1_j22ah7k wrote

Reply to comment by PorkchopFunny in Balancing trespassers with being neighborly by c_l_who

It is sad because who wants to see Vermont become a NO TRESPASSING type of state. Who wants cellular cameras watching them when taking a walk in the woods? And the reasons - social change, lack of courtesy, incomers without knowledge of traditions, but also old-timers who feel they have inherited rights, or perhaps there is just a general degradation of human decency? On my rural street not a single property is posted including many farms with hundreds of acres. A neighbor recently got on gamecam another (fairly new) neighbor cutting a christmas tree on his land. Solved by polite request not to do it again without asking. I'm pretty certain if somebody posted the neighbors would all ask "why did you post?" so it's not the norm where I am.

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PsychologicalBite468 t1_j22adzf wrote

Reply to Am I the only one here, or are Vermonts road markings disappear when the roads wet? by euro_trash_rescue

When I first moved here from New York it was quite jarring. There are limited markings on the road, and there are limited reflective markers guiding the road. My second favorite part of Vermont is everyone’s blatant lack of high beam courtesy, which totally adds to the fun of driving on limited marked roads.

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