You think this is a uniquely Vermont problem? I live in Eastern MA and also can’t afford to live in a nice town. On a six figure salary. This is a New England problem. Vermont is in a better place than MA tho since they at least have land to build

Lol. I have an advanced degree and a good job. The cost of housing in VT is completely divorced from wages in VT. We're trying to fix it. One of the fixes is making homes available for residents. Deal with it.

I dont think it actually is either, more likely just a "spread fear" move. I doubt anything is actually gonna happen.

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It’s Reddit. Okay. “Get over yourself for fucks sake” Here goes then. Save money and buy a house. If you can’t afford it, get a better job. If you can’t find a better job, move to a state with high paying jobs, and if you can’t change your living situation, grow up and look at the hand you’ve given yourself and deal with it.

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There’s a military training route that probably goes right over your house. It’s used to practice flying fast and low

Do you think you are more deserving because you were born here? The problem with Vermont is it doesn't exist in a vacuum.

Jesus. It's reddit. Get over yourself for fucks sake.

"I'd argue a significant..." is not a meaningful statistic, and the state doesn't live to serve you and will be fine without you.

Good fucking christ rich people are the worst.

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Looks like you are...

Of course! Just 1) at a lower rate and 2) ski towns, for instance, 2nd homeowners pay a significant amount of a local or regional schools budget

Not rent. Let it sit vacant. Ignore the law and see if BTV has an teeth. Lots of other options.

Then why don't they act like it?

Not going to address you insulted me despite the numbers coming from your own states website? I’d argue a significant amount of money comes from people who spend their weekends and vacations at second homes in Vermont, spending money in restaurants, gas stations, mom and pop stores, etc but it doesn’t affect me if you can’t understand how the world works. Because it’s going to keep working whether you’re onboard or not.

Man?

What was it?

Dude, seriously. I don't care. People who have enough money to have a second home in VT are a tiny percentage. The vast majority of tourists don't own second homes here. We would still have tourists without second homes, this argument is just stupid.

That's capitalism for ya.

Primary homeowners pay taxes too.

http://accd.vermont.gov/tourism/research before you go insulting me and since you clearly haven’t done one ounce of research, it’s from your own states website.

And I don’t think that. I’m just asking you, where do you expect jobs to appear from? What companies are moving 30k jobs to Vermont?

One of the biggest risks is a tenant damaging the property or fighting a lawful eviction. How do you fix that?

I know the point is hate, I'm just pointing out the stupidity of the deflections I often hear.

Completely missing the point.

30k seems very high, and pretty arbitrary and pretty pulled out of your ass.

I really don't care what you think, honestly.

If you think people are happy to work minimum wage jobs with no benefits, instead of having available housing that's great. Good for you.

Most people in VT don't work in tourism. We can't hire teachers at the moment because we don't have housing. If we lost second homes, people would still come. Not a problem.