Recent comments in /f/vermont

Unusual-Form-77 t1_j2cy6xl wrote

Reply to How is living in Vermont? by RockLobsterCakes

The cost of living is surprisingly high, e.g. Burlington’s is about 10% higher than Orlando. We have a relatively severe housing shortage. The median home cost in Burlington is 30% higher than Orlando. Religiosity is a lot lower in VT, which might be a culture shock coming from Florida. Our shortest day is 8h50, vs. 10h20 in Orlando. Our roads are terrible. We have very few chain restaurants and lots of very good independent restaurants. Our public schools are very good because our property taxes are high. Everyone drives a Subaru. There is no fake maple syrup. It gets really cold. It gets really hot, and not everyone has air conditioning. We have black bears, but no alligators. We have the best cheddar cheese and beer in the observable universe. We have hills and mountains. Our lowest point is still above where sea level would be if all the ice melted. Everyone’s front porch slopes down. The stripes they paint on our roads only last a few months before being worn off by people who leave their studded snow tires on year-round. Strangers don’t make eye contact or greet each other. Road salt both saves and destroys our cars. People ride bicycles for transportation. We have reproductive liberty. It costs about 4x as much to have your lawn mowed, so most people do it themselves. We have skiing, but it’s so expensive and so crowded it’s not much fun anymore. We have a lot of mountain biking. We have community supported agriculture. Gun violence is up about 1000%. Until recently there wasn’t any meth, but now there’s meth. Drivers are impatient and not very good. Waitstaff are overworked. We have amazing cheddar cheese (that bears repeating).

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No-Ganache7168 t1_j2ckdel wrote

Reply to UVM too expensive by Constant_Education_4

My eldest applied last year but received more aid to attend a state university in another state. Crazy in that she graduated in the top 10 in her class and never received less than an A. Plus she took AP and college courses as a junior and senior.

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realize-finiteworld t1_j2ch5na wrote

Reply to comment by Russian_Rocket23 in Hartford Redemption struggles to keep employees in what owner fears is a dying trade by DaddyBobMN

Deposit/redemption is a great program for hard to recycle materials. Aluminum cans are one of the easiest materials to collect, separate, and recycle. Glass is another story. If we could collect ALL glass beverage containers and separate them by color, it would be a huge win for the redemption system.

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RockLobsterCakes OP t1_j2ccyf1 wrote

Reply to comment by fjwjr in How is living in Vermont? by RockLobsterCakes

After reading about mud season, I can hear my car groaning. Down here, if there has been a lot of rain and any of the rivers have risen- you never go driving down to them because the sand roads will tear your car wheels off if you don’t have the proper kind of vehicle to travel down them.

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