Oh look, a racist POS.

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What exactly was the racial slur? What a slur is these days is a bit subjective...sometimes. A lot of times no, but also frequently yes.

Secondly, why does a statement of "hate has no place here" firstly have a fist and secondly a logo of a copyrighted brand?

I didnt say if you can't afford to live here than leave. I said if you can't afford to move here than don't.

Big difference.

I grew up here. Dirt poor. It took me about 18 years to finally get a house to call a home. It sucked and took every penny I had for 12 of those years going to a building project.

Locals are not being priced out by locals. They are being priced out by people who consider affordable to be way beyond the means of someone who came up here. They are playing you my man. STR are not the enemy, the reason you can't afford a house is work from home folks with NYC income and who are moving to places like Cambridge or Fairfax.

You wouldn't like it here. Try Texas.

Most of Vermont is zoned rural residential... especially 10 acre lots... Which typically means you can do basically anything you want, including host private concerts.

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There's a great plan from the DHCD and the Congress for the New Urbanism. It aims to continue historical patterns in villages and towns with things like cottage courts, mid density multiuse areas, and accessory dwelling units.

VT won't be affordable without new housing, and specifically the right kind of new housing to help young new families and aging Vermonters be able to live here. I love my drafty old farmhouse but it's not the right house for most people in this state anymore and it probably never will be again.

https://www.cnu.org/vermont

A big part of our problem is with relatively recent zoning changes that require things like large minimum lots. That sounds like it preserves VT on its surface but the result is 1 house every 3 acres and no woods at all.

Yeah well what about the Vermonters who were born here? Don’t we deserve to live near our families? Or should we just be expected to force our elderly parents out of their (paid off) homes and ship them to the cheap states we were forced to move to for our own convenience? What about the 6th generation Vermonters who can afford a 300k home but not a 600k home? We really should just go kick rocks?

Building homes will not “ruin” Vermont. In my lifetime, I’ve heard that solar farms, wind farms, houses, businesses would ruin the state and turn it into New Jersey. Yet somehow, Vermont is still beautiful. I’m so sick of this “tough titty” attitude. Not enough housing is tearing apart families, and it’s destructive to the culture and heritage of Vermont. Housing is a human right. Hey guess what? If you don’t like neighbors, then you should be able to afford 40 acres so you can pretend you live in 18th Century Vermont. Oh, too expensive? Well, move somewhere cheaper.

As others have said, main roads after clearing should be fine. It's mostly after snow or icy rain, for a day or three depending on what the weather is like, that you need to beware.

It all comes down to physics, slippery roads are going to teach you some hard lessons if you don't anticipate the physics.

Trying to pull out of a parking lot with a slushy entrance? You may push the pedal harder to try to get out before the light turns or oncoming traffic arrives, but the wheels, without proper traction, will spin and you'll go slowly, if at all. Good tires help, common sense is still important. Traction/friction is your friend.

Similarly if it's icy, you can press the brakes, but just because the tires stop rotating doesn't mean you'll slow down or stop moving forward. You have momentum proportional to the weight of your vehicle and the speed you're traveling. Give yourself a long path to slow down. (Or, as others said, best not to be out in the first place).

A heavy car with rear wheel drive on icy roads can also be a turning hazard, you can turn the wheels but the car just continues in the same direction. Not much of a problem in this day with front/awd/4 wheel drive and lighter vehicles.

Anyway, you get the idea. But avoid the icy days to drive, and if you must drive in bad conditions (only if you must), anticipate lack of traction and plan for it.

No one i know goes to a shop...like most legal states black market is cheaper and better....we all know 5 growers like you, or grow ourselves.

My neighbor put it in the only affordable housing in my town around 20 years ago. She donated a portion of her land to the Windham/Windsor housing trust. That housing trust put in around 40-50 mixed/affordable housing units and that same trust manages the complex.

If towns were serious about housing, they would identify and keep land that is suitable for development when it comes up for tax sale and then bring in a housing trust to build and manage.

Act 250 is necessary to ensure big business provides housing for employees or donates to a housing trust when they do develop land. Also necessary so that affordable housing isn’t placed in a wetland or floodplain.

And if you grew up here, work here and can't afford to buy? The problem with "can't afford to live here so leave" is very soon VT won't have any service industry workers. People will be cutting their own hair, fixing their own plumbing, etc.

Maybe Florida is a better fit for you, my guy bitch?

Tell me you’re racist without telling me you’re racist 🤦‍♀️

Love the guy just casually walking down the street lol

Be aware most rental places don’t do snow tires.

There are public transit options. They’re not great, but they exist; Google Maps or similar will give you the routes.

How is it not creepy? We literally have a term to call people who exhibit behavior like this. The term is creeper.

Somehow airbnb is a magic scapegoat for all property and housing issues. People don't realize how many regular people use the system renting out their own property, or how much the hotels would love to squash the competition they have to deal with. It's easier to blame one company than to face the fact that Vermont will always have housing shortages due to its very conservative nature. Until towns allow actual dense housing or many environmental regulations magically "go away" nothing will change.

Thanks! You taught me something new, I appreciate that.

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The Cannabis Board has seemed pretty reasonable and has even been advocating for removing the stupid THC limits. How are they idiotic?

So then doesn’t the same principle apply to the neighbor building an ADU near your property? I’m not saying I don’t feel for you but that may be the reason for their chosen location too.

Lots of people in this thread who are from out of state and now realize they can’t buy due to the shortage so they are looking to turn VT into wherever they came from by building new houses and jamming so many people in that the reasons that made them want to move here disappears.

Down vote away but stop trying to turn VT into CT or MA or NJ or NY so you can own a house here.

The STR discussions are a honeypot. A tiny amount of houses owned by more economically successful people than the ones complaining about it. You are been spoon fed an enemy that if you defeat will have near zero impact on the claimed cause and will honestly, not really impact the wallet of those with STR.

You can’t afford to buy a house here. Accept it. I can’t afford to buy a house In Hawaii or even costal Florida. I can’t afford a house in Boulder either. Maybe look to a place you can afford to live.

UVM is supposed to house 12,000 students? You think housing is hard to find now, wait till groovy-uvy buys up every piece of real estate in a 10 mile radius and turns it all into dorms