The other stuff is happening mostly in Burlington which is about an hour from where your husband works and you can’t afford to live in Burlington anyways so that solves that problem.

Bruh OP and her husband are working class people, they’re not some lawyer or doctor from Massachusetts buying their sixth vacation home. We have a labor crisis in the state and we need to attract blue collar people to do the jobs that a lot of the recent transplants refused to do.

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The Quechee Inn is relatively close, about 7 miles from Woodstock. It's quaint and beautiful, I had a great stay there! The first-floor bedrooms are very nice! https://www.quecheeinn.com/

Check out the Champlain housing trust, I know a few people who bought homes through them and well you don’t own the entire home it does make homeownership a lot more affordable.

https://www.getahome.org/

I would love to. The question is whether or not there's anything out there for him to do work-wise.

Maybe start looking for jobs for a chef some place in the NEK? It is significantly cheaper. It was the only place in Vermont we could reasonably afford.

While it’s a cruel thing to say it’s also honest. People in their 20s and 30s aren’t having a lot of kids these days because they are flat out unaffordable and because they spend so much time working and commuting the thought of having a family just doesn’t make sense. It seems like they are a single paycheck household and likewise isn’t really a thing anymore.

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Thank you for the kind words and encouragement, I really appreciate it. Yes, we had to commute quite a bit back home to in order to make money. With my husband being a chef, we have to live within driving distance of larger cities, so we're used to it. We really don't want to live farther out than an hour though, that would just be too much unless the pay was incredible, which rarely is the case for kitchen workers.

We have been looking at mobile homes as well as fixer uppers that don't require too much work because my husband doesn't have time to work on a house between his job and school and I don't know anything about DIY and have a baby to watch all day. If it just looks shabby and needs a paint job though that's no problem.

We will do our best to keep our heads up and find a way out of this. Just the waiting is the hard part.

Thanks will check it out. Is it quiet? I am running the half marathon so want comfy and quiet . No TV is just fine with me!!

And all of the taxes we pay on goods and services because we do all of our shopping in Vermont? I guess those don't count for anything either.

We have been looking in New York too.

Why do you dedicate your reddit account to shitting on Vermont? Why not, instead, contribute positively to r/Arkansas, since you love it there so much?

Okay, nice to know, thank you 😊

Very true. Yes, we are definitely keeping Rutland on our radar.

We were actually just looking in that area yesterday online! Will definitely be keeping it in mind, thanks. 😊

Yes. We drive through those towns to visit family in NY and they are rural but much more affordable

it's a terrible time to buy with interest rates. no one is going to move right now either if they have a lower rate, no one is going to sell a home with a 2.25% mortgage to sign a new one with 7%.

try looking from rutland north, you might find something. renting/buying in middlebury is probably out of most VTer's range, especially buying

There are several homes for sale in Port Henry that need work but are very affordable.

Stayed at the Vesper last fall. Would do it again. No TV in the room. The Woodstock Inn was fancy AF. Will stay there when I win the lotto.

Our townhouse is on the line between Essex and Jericho. Not all of the townhouses are actually in a town.

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It's not bad, but interest rates are high to buy right now and nothing is available to buy or rent in our price range. Also it would be nice to live closer to Middlebury for my husband's work so he doesn't have to drive almost two hours every day. He keeps saying that no one can get help out there because no one can afford to live there, like us. If Middlebury wants services they really need to have housing. :(

I haven't heard of that before, but I do know we don't qualify for a lot of things because we're not first time home buyers and because my husband "makes too much". Of course they don't factor in taxes or food or insurance or anything else that leaves us with barely anything at the end of the month :(