I'd walk out on the balcony, put that double-barreled shotgun and fire two blasts outside the house

not all families are affluent, mine was certainly not.

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You appear to be attacking my comment when it’s in response to the person shitting on those jobs. Maybe I’m in fact misreading you but if you’re implying that I’m considering those jobs uneducated or bad you’re missing something.

You're still just arguing semantics rather than addressing the actual argument...

I would say that arguing a seldom used, neologistic definition of a word carries equal weight to the long established original definition fits the definition of semantics far better.

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What context did you mean when you explicitly and clearly said >Your “solution” fails to acknowledge we’re all dependent on the “uneducated” and “bad” jobs you’re implicitly shitting on

What uneducated job are you referring to beyond the garbage collector you mentioned?

Picking a single word from a single definition despite colloquial usage is the definition of semantics.

Your criticism of my specific comment might reflect on your education as you’re missing the context and thus misinterpreting my statement. Read it again in the context of the thread and maybe reconsider your reactive reply.

You know… It’s an odd person who sees education as something that can only be gained in a college degree. Gotta wonder where the licensed electrician learned their craft. I suppose the carpenters in your area just fumble around till the house stops falling over. Impossible to “learn” a job huh…. Even the fella who empties your trash received an education on how to do it. But sure, MBAs…

> Refusal of services.

Businesses as struggling and I can't think of any that's in a place to turn down income from natives, transplants, refugees, transients, or hedge fund managers. Besides cutting off your nose to spite your face, this also has about as much of an impact as those idiots that have tried to get a general gas strike for a day - those turned away will just do their business elsewhere and the business is the only one hurt.

> State Electoral College

Because the national electoral college works so well! We have a bicameral system that's designed to give voice to the biggest population centers as well as equal representation across the state.

> Longer residency limits to run for office

That would be unconstitutional for national congresscritters. But for state reps, I would be in favor of raising residency requirements from 2 to 5. 10 years is unnecessarily long, and there are plenty of good representatives across the state who have lived here for fewer than 10 years. Term limits would be nice too.

Idk man google rural gentrification and you’ll see a million articles about it. Not saying you aren’t correct by definition, but it seems like a common mistake. Honestly never have been told that gentrification only applies to urban communities.

2. Read again. "Local official from out of town." I'm not at all advocating for refusing services to all transplants.

or find a better opinion?

or find a better opinion?

I missed your comment on urban. I didn’t realize gentrification only applied to urban communities?

Hate to tell ya bud, the entire united states is complaining about the housing market being out if range of all but the wealthy.

Vermont is the only state in the union to maintain the same economy throughout the pandemic. 6.24% combined state and local sales tax isn’t bad either. If you are viewing it through the lens of NH, it seems bad, but it’s among the lowest in the US. Something like only 4 other states are lower. Income tax is smack dab in the middle of all states. VT population change from 2020 to today is…. wait for it… 0%.

You want to strike. Have at it. You’ll be striking against capitalism. Good luck! Likewise have at refusing services to government contracts. VT Law alumni can’t wait.

Electoral College… 1/2 of Vermonters don’t get off their ass to vote, so they’ll probably fully support abdicating blame to others.

By all means, point out which state representatives were anywhere near the two year residency requirement.

Here’s a crazy thought: if you don’t like what some elected official is getting up to, dig into the municipal charter for the appropriate city and find out what it takes to boot them. Then run for the office and do something other than bitch on reddit

There is a difference between using words correctly and semantics.

> Does your local official from out of town govern without a care for their constitutes?

Better answer: Run against them. And when you have to take a controversial vote, don't bitch when you can't get a load of firewood delivered.

Sure. So rural areas just don't matter? It's the same process but you got us with semantics. Be proud.

Same. It's so fucking depressing to see the ruling class trick us all by drawing imaginary lines on maps. We fall for it every fucking time. Normal people start squabbling over who was born on which side of what line, and all while the wealthy exercise perfect class solidarity by pooling resources to buy up our shit and charging us rent to use it.

But gentrification is a change to an existing urban area.

I've been showing this sub data on similar Vermont population topics for a while now and nobody ever believes it. They'd rather run with their narrative.

They'll yell that from the rooftops and then, with no sense of irony at all, complain about not being able to hire any help...