My husband is a weather nerd. We have a weather station at our house and he shared stats with the NWS. He mentioned we could end up having the warmest January in memory. The snow amounts vary by year but are trending downward. When we moved here 21 years ago we’d always hit about 200 inches. Lately it’s been lower.

You might consider Randolph (exit 4 off the 89) which is in the center of the state. The HS isn't great, but the elementary school is pretty fantastic. It would be about a 45 minute commute to Killington. I do hope you make the move - Vermont will welcome you.

Mmmmmm Blackback pub nachos. Who needs pizza.

If it doesn't taste like Satan's piss after a hefty serving of asparagus and pine needles, you're doing it wrong.

The Northeast Kingdom...basically the upper northeast part of the state. I consider roughly everything north and east of Montpelier to be the NEK; Newport and St. Johnsbury are the two big towns of that region. Beautiful area, and lots of good people there, but also a lot of fairly poor, rural folk that are pretty insular. Very much like parts of Appalachia.

I know... the people telling the racist scum to not be be racist scum are definitely the issue and not the racist scum.

Thanks for modeling how racism is alive and well in Vermont though.

Ohhhh thank you. I just assume that’s the NorthEast part of the state then?

North East Kingdom

“White,” or at least in Franklin county.

Don't know, just speaking from my own experience here. Curious why you would say that- have you not heard about the football field/n word 'incident'?

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Aww yeah! Maple Syrup !!

This is very comforting, thank you :)

Lol! I love a good farmers market. I’m glad that the communities have them.

I get it thing is I didn't expect this big a difference this winter. We're seeing bizarre weather events around the world as it accelerates.

Lifelong Vermonter who working for the airline industry has been all over the world, there are racist/ignorant people everywhere but in Vermont I find people excepting people's individuality in race, sex and creed. We welcome everyone including you and your husband.

You nailed it! That’s what I find so fascinating about this states politics and economy. And from what I can tell by this current legislative session (see newest gun proposals) its stay woke and broke. I could see Vermont state being very broke to the point of needing federal bailouts. Makes me consider not buying here…but we’re going to give it a couple years before pulling the trigger on land.

As a military veteran, the Va is great here and some of the local town tax benefits are ok for land owning vets, but not sure I like the business tax, Act250, and the miss allocation of funds we keep reading about…

Thanks for the feedback. Not every episode is for everyone, though in this case, the Airbnb question won and I'm glad it's a topic you're interested in. Open to reporting suggestions if you have them

It seems like everywhere I turn there’s a ‘wood fired’ pizza place.

In my experience, it's something that comes from the ONE pizza place in your town that would fail within a month in any other part of the country. In reality, this place only survives due to a combination of a) the food has always been like this - why would the generations of locals want anything different because this is what pizza is to them b) the owner/owner's family includes or is connected to the town clerk (so there are strange oddly specific barriers for pizza shops to open up within that town) c) the nearest other option for pizza is a 20+ minute drive that will render that pizza soggy and nasty by the time you get it home.

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Within a few months, you give up on doing take out and start making your own or relying on frozen options because dining out/getting take out turns out to be a way to spend more money to get more hassles, thus defeating the purpose of take out/dining out - which is to make your life easier. Within a few months, you find this as an opportunity to make long deferred lifestyle changes because Vermont has effectively obliterated what you know about the world and has made it easier to live a life where you receive little to no joy out of food.

its actually called a farmers market in the summer. Cunning group of anti Michiganers

Correct.

I made Vermonter "Bruschetta" which was toasted baguette w/ olive oil, melted Calbot seriously sharp, raw honey crisp apple, and a maple balsamic reduction...

It's so so good.

I love our gas stations. Good coffee, sometimes they’re a place to congregate, and some of them have really good food. Or passable pizza. The whole thing is the vibe.

Haha I promise I don’t hold onto the Michigan vs Ohio rivalry lol 😂 thanks so much!!

Ooof, you’re gonna make people mad with this one 😂 One thing I think you got wrong is while Vermont is a liberal stronghold we have many old progressives that in this day and age would pass as woke hating grumpy old timers. Not a bad thing, just if you live long enough things start to surpass you. My father championed civil rights and worked to get Bernie elected as mayor back in the day. Now he loathes this “ woke culture” Vermont liberal is not the same as others, I have my love of Bernie and AOC, but I also love my glock 🤷🏻‍♂️