I’m Hispanic and lived in Rutland and Castleton for 4 years. I live in Alaska now. I found it relatively peaceful and accepting in both areas. The NEK (Derby..etc) was extremely unwelcoming and hateful…and other parts (Hartland, Manchester, Killington, St Johnsbury, Woodstock, Pittsford, Wallingford, Middlebury) all gave off the vibe of “we don’t see much diversity here, but we are curious and ready to welcome it” (albeit with microaggressions and missteps along the way). Burlington just feels like a vagrant space. Beautiful, constantly shifting tides with college students and population turnover. Accepting, but less in a way that is easy to form community and more in a neoliberal way.

You’ll be safe there, just avoid the NEK. There’s good people everywhere though.

it will happen at some point. but much much less frequently. i went to high school with students that snowmobiled there. good luck now. we have no snow. the weather has changed. look forward to a lot of winters that are just really long and sometimes cold falls.

That situation had nothing to do with race. A bunch of kids were playing sports and the game was physical, leading to frustration. Not everything is the race game.

There are plenty of businesses in Franklin county with people from different backgrounds where these kids frequent and are kind and respectful. Among other examples.

Sometimes kids are just arguing over a game. As any child will do.

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When I was little we could go almost an entire week without breaking single digits. I am confident I will never see that again in my lifetime

I think you will find that most Vermonters will bend themselves AND their neighbors over backwards to make you feel comfortable here. There are some areas of the state where folks have not had much experience around POC so the language will be full of the accidentally racist kind of things that brings, trying to correct them is a coin flip on how it will go.

A bridge would be convenient but the cost will always be a major and likely insurmountable hurdle.

And 35 years from now, should the proposal be approved, we could be driving all the way there year round.

🙄

My dad was a professor at Dartmouth for 20 odd years and he knew the guy who started EC fiber. The guy offered my family either free or heavily discounted ec fiber for like a 2000ish dollar investment. We didn’t take up the offer, my mom is pretty anti-computer and didn’t want to indulge my brother and dad with good internet. I was so mad lol.

Yeah it’s nuts in the Upper Valley

Trump said the blizzard at Christmas time in Buffalo was proof there is no such thing as climate change. So there’s that definitive analysis of the winter so far.

Don’t jinx it!!!! Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

It's trending upwards but varies wildly from year to year.

35 years ago the lake would regularly freeze to the point you could drive all the way to Plattsburgh.

Thank you for your insight, sure the high temps have been nice but I thought we'd see nights in the negatives by now.

I'm relatively young (30) so I could just be a child of climate change, but in my experience growing up here it varies year to year. This is one of the warmer winters I remember, but it's about on par with a winter about 4 or 5 years ago where it was crazy warm. There was a winter when I was in high school that was about this warm as well. Again, could just be climate change, but don't be shocked if 2 winters from now you're freezing your nips off like you were last year and all the republicans come crawling out of the woodwork making jokes like "so much for global warming."

I hope you don’t worry too much about this redditor, he’s one of those people who thinks racism is almost always overblown and when someone says something racist it’s “dumb” only…

Stay out of Rutland and the northeast part of the state.

I think despite everything, I turned out okay. Kids are resilient and Vermont has lots of other amazing things to offer. We endured a lot, but I feel like I’d mourn if I had to leave. My hope is that future generations will hold onto the community spirit and let go of the xenophobia.

The lefties are the ones that make everything about race

I think this fella got a bit scrambled from inhaling too much tear gas on 1/6/21.

Also… lots more colleges with established programs. There are probably more colleges in MA established before 1940 than there are west of the Great Plains. All those public colleges established since then are great, but they don’t have the athletic department legacy older colleges do. Keeping a downhill program around is a lot easier than selling it to an AD with a limited number of programs.

Sure, big D1 colleges have them, and can do well, but none of the little colleges can consider it

Will check it out! Sounds very cool!!

Thank you for this insight. I appreciate your perspective and experience. Thank you for sharing it with me ❤️

Okay then I guess I’m trolling cuz I have no idea what you meant by your first response 🥴 oh well