You don’t understand the severity and rapidity of climate change. Also, weather and climate are not the same.

Someone is bitter.

No such thing as over hopped.

Biased

I was expecting a license plate r/vermont found horrific, but yes, don't be like this person.

I'm simply referring to the prevalence of BANANA NIMBYs and insufferable busybodies in Vermont and the arcane regulatory state (Act 250) and local hurdles people have to overcome when it comes to building on or developing any kind of property in VT, including residential. It's very easy to challenge, stymie, and delay any kind of development or construction project in VT regardless of size. That is quintessential VT.

Can't stand this.. Clean your entire car off, people!

The number of Middlebury college kids I saw driving away from campus this week with one square foot of snow removed from the windshield and nothing else… 😑

Never trust anyone who buys the “big” sedan from any company.

The other morning I was cruising down 89 south by exit 15, yknow the one where there’s like 3/4 of a mile to merge but everyone merges the second the other lane is accessible.

A car that was not even remotely cleaned off came on and merged in front of me. Literally encased in snow. They had scraped out a hole the size of a dinner plate to look out of, and had the drivers window open so they could smoke their cigarette.

For some reason when I passed her and gave her the finger she got really upset…and then as she was trying to angrily speed pat me a huge sheet of compacted snow flew off her roof and smashed the car behind her…..

Wow, graduated 12 years ago and never really expected to see anything regarding NU on here. Love it man! I just remember hill sprints up to this in the summer/fall.

Ahh BF. Would love to see this person cross the bridge and get pulled over in Walpole for violating Jessica's law!

You keep making comments like this in here and I'm genuinely curious what sorts of regulations Vermont has that are particularly restrictive relative to most other places.

Fuck that noise. This is one time where I am a proud NIMBY.

Anything with maple is good in my book

Definitely much warmer than any other winter I’ve been here for, although I’m a transplant I visited family here always in the winter and this is unusual for sure.

>One root of the problem in Vermont is that so many people have so very little interaction with BIPOC

As a lifelong vermonter this is a huge part of the problem. The result is well intended people being overtly racist without realizing what they are doing. It's like they see BIPOC and HAVE to act different to prove how not racist they are. And in the end they are basically just being racist.

For instance my grandmother is a pretty open minded person, would never intentionally be overtly racist, loves her BIPOC neighbors, but every time she meets someone with a skin tone slightly darker than hers she just HAS to ask "where are you from!?" - and when they so "oh, Michigan!" she goes "but, like originally?" and understandably people are like "uhhh I mean my ancestors were brought here as slaves, so...."

So i see a lot of that. Racism wrapped in kindness and ignorance.

For me, the quintessential Vermont pizza experience is a high-quality flatbread wood fired pizza paired with a local brew. IMO Flatbread and Folino's make world class pies that I haven't experienced elsewhere (not that I typically search out pizza when I travel).

I would say in general, Vermont Style would have to be hand tossed and wood fired. It's probably not that unique to VT, but that's what I think of with Vermont pizza.

Lol, this but not even specific to pizza.

Act 250 was a bomb, it needs to be abolished. It hamstrings low income housing and stems large companies from coming to the state. I get why it was put into legislation. So Vermont didn’t become a big strip mall. We still got Walmarts and targets and all that trash so really it failed in its intent and now is at archaic POS. We also have one of the highest tax rates in the entire country yet our infrastructure is absolute trash. Don’t get me wrong, Vermont is a wonderful state. It surely needs a heavy overhaul on some stuff though. Our super super popular governor seems to do much about nothing though.

For what it's worth, and for informational purposes, you might look into the Strafford area. They still have their own Elementary School, it's close to Dartmouth (offering a variety of cultural advantages), and you have school choice. You could send your kids to Thetford Academy, The Sharon Academy or the Hanover High School (for High School). Our own kids chose to go to TSA. I haven't read through all the comments, but Strafford is an hour's drive from Killington (on a good day with the wind at your back).

I am biracial and was born and grew up in central Vermont (Strafford, VT) and just graduated college. I had fine experiences in all my schooling in Vermont. Certainly some micro aggressions and rude jokes and such but nothing extreme, the kind of things and are unfortunately unavoidable. I grew up in an extremely small town and went to elementary school with the same 15 kids for all 9 years, I felt like I was always treated for who I was and never stereotyped, because of the strong community and the fact that everyone had to know me very well. Vermont is certainly not diverse and I feel like I missed that at times, but it also felt very safe. My experience was always kind well meaning people who treated me well.

I'm not entirely sure if this is helpful but here in Saint Albans, atleast in my sons class, theres no issues I've ever seen or heard of. Granted my sons only in 3rd grade. But his school did a big rally last year about treating everyone the same and we're all the same no matter skin color with the BLM flag. Many schools are doing the same.

BUT there was a story on the news the other day where there were racist insults used at a game, Milton vs Fairfax. It was a "fan" who did it but considering its Milton I'm not surprised. Most of the towns with racism aren't popular destinations, and from the last 15 or so years it's been weeded out for the majority, so I'd think Killington would be a great area to bring your family!

We are making it regardless because there’s not an option to not! But after making this thread, we definitely feel better about moving out and the parts to avoid.