It was until the developer went bankrupt

How about taking your own advice? Shitty people are intolerant towards people that are different from them and cl justify it by calling it "mental illness". I feel bad for anyone in your family that comes out gay or trans. Smh

Outages suck but it's not the utility company's fault. Also, I doubt Brattleboro is any older than the folks in Guilford, Dummerston or Marlboro, where outages are probably more common and longer.

At least an increase in upper end hotel rooms may lower the prices of room-nights in Burlington and make AirBnB less competitive and thus less attractive to homeowners, quickly adding existing housing back into the market as a result?

The city of Burlington I should’ve said. As that’s their complaint and the politics of Burlington have been mainly…

But you also made the point for the state as well. Conservative is a synonym of nibyism.

Geriatric is the majority of vt as this stage has aged not well at all. Majority of youth and families have left and continue to leave. Only old boomers show up for decade+ now.

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agree!

This is what I don’t get. If Vermonters like this person are majority progressive, then why aren’t y’all happy with progressive policies that got you to this place?

That's an easy one, Vermonters are decidedly *not* majority progressive. At all. Geriatric lefty conservatism looks different (and is better than) right-wing conservatism, but it's still conservative as fuck. We're an old state with a ton of boomers who want Vermont to remain exactly the way it was.

If all goes well, I'll try to post my completed thesis in May!

Wish Vermont had enough money lying around for tax incentives for the film industry but Air BbB and the housing stock in the state a much bigger issue—and one that prevents growing the tax base.

Wish it was affordable housing

thank you!

Thats the actual plan as of now

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.sevendaysvt.com/vermont/another-hotel-developer-buys-former-ymca-building-in-burlington/Content%3foid=37349181&media=AMP%2bHTML

Legit saw one cross over northbound lane of 89 near exit 19's onramp early Saturday morning

for reals? sarcasm?

I agree about the spray painting. it does indicate that nobody is there taking care of the building (or they would tell the kids to go away).

I mean as a resident I feel like wayy too many buildings are sitting abandoned in our downtown core for how insane the real estate market is.

I dont really think kids spraypainting a building has anything to do with the deterioration of the city though

I think the real answer is that Romania is cheaper

Its going to be a luxury hotel

Yeah cause corporate America does such a great job. Maybe USPS can be like Southwest or Ticket Master. We get what we pay for with government. Give them a shoestring budget, get bad service.

Some in state gov't. About 1/3 staff. I'm sure everything you list (wages, etc) is true. It's also demographics. If we don't give into the hordes and build sprawl to accomodate the work From home crowd, it's hard to see how anyone will be getting mail, buying groceries, getting a haircut, seeing a doctor, etc in a short time.

Studded snow tires are pricey but make an enormous difference on any vehicle. The studs are the important bit, because being able to stop is even more important than being able to start.

I laughed so hard at Panera.

Not surprised at all. I have friends that work on our infrastructure. You don't want to know what they know.

I wish we had some sort of system -- maybe big red flags that can be hung from any window? -- that could signal "I NEED HELP" -- without depending on any technology at all.

We too often assume everyone has a med-alert button, that every pulled-over car has a healthy driver inside with a working phone/cell coverage and a triple-A membership.

There's nothing that beats actually checking. Maybe think about knocking on some doors tomorrow morning?