Well thank God 🤣 I was like are they serious lol

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But you are clearly butt hurt and this really isn’t worth the back and forth because Vermonters talk the talk until it’s time to walk the walk. Like everyone is so environmentally conscious here allegedly but would rather cut down tree and burn wood than to use a more environmentally friendly source of heat…

If more Vermonters treated people the way they want to be treated we wouldn’t be having this conversation now would we?… and this tip /meal topic is deeper than what we are both saying in these comments . For example: if you advertise that you pay your servers $25+/hr and charging me $35 for a 30cent piece of chicken and 70 cents of veggies you should be taking care of your employees and the business and yourself.

It's a race between those who understand the post is supposed to be satire and those who don't.

Reading that post made me so sad. As someone who lived and worked in ludlow for a few years, it’s really sad to see skiers talk shit about one of the kindest communities I’ve ever been part of. I hated ski season when out of staters would invade the very tiny town that wasn’t built for the number of people that came each weekend

“Don’t have to tip”, do us all a favor and don’t bother to come visit our state anymore!

This is a different poster using satire to poke fun at the first poster.

Be sure to view the well measured replies from the OP in the comments too. And OP wonders why he wasn't treated well.

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Be careful not to erode the trails.

Oh I’d love too! I wish I had a couple months cabin stay up there !

The quality of my meal bears no relation to what I tip. It turns out waiters and waitresses don’t make the food or set the prices. Shockingly have no say in the products that are being offered. Short changing them because you feel slighted by thing’s completely outside of their control is frankly dickish.

This this this this. It’s not just VT it’s everywhere. Venture capital buying up single family homes should terrify every American.

Hmm, I wonder if it could be assholes like the original OP buying up real estate, only using it a couple of weekends a year, only spending their money at the massive out of state owned conglomerate ski resort, and then driving back to New York.

I love Addison County. I miss living in Ferrisburgh.

This is a great point that really needs to be taken more seriously and it goes way beyond just Airbnbs and VT. What needs to be strictly regulated is rich people and private businesses buying up all the single family homes at a premium (so no one can compete with them) then renting them back to the would-be homeowners and Airbnbers at inflated prices. It's not just VT either. It's the whole fucking country minus the shitty places no one wants to live in anyway.

Gladly after I watch you overpay for a subpar meal first lol

Probably should eat at home then.

Complete morons with no critical thinking skills WHATsoever. It was “safe” up here because we were masking, distancing, and generally followed the rules. Soooo they came up here and thought, wow, I feel really safe, better take off my mask and get pissed that I’m being made to follow the rules, too? The ones that are keeping people safe? What do you MEAN the people who took this seriously aren‘t letting ME break the rules?

I think that was our breaking point with tourists. We finally started telling them “no”, you AREN’T above us, and BOY did they get piiiissed… That hospitality effed all the way off when they showed they didn’t really give a crap about us as people.

How often do you have to check if jokes are funny?

Nobody wants to work ^^for ^^peanuts anymore is why!

"Oh my GAWD, I just want some cawfee! What do you mean there's a 5 person limit inside? But we're all together, I just want some cawfee, it's safe up here, Vermont is supposed to be safe, I'm with them I just want some cawfee." -actual New Jersey meltdown in summer 2020.

You should try skiing!

This is gold, such an enjoyable read. You’ve managed to capture that perspective perfectly.