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Why does it even matter bro? 🤷‍♂️

Or, instead of labor strikes, being mean to outsiders, and complaining on reddit, you could focus on making a lucrative career change.

you i guess

WTF are you talking about? Yes you are definitely missing something and letting your own cognitive blindness cause you to project your oddly derived meaning into my statement. You struggle with reading comprehension it seems.

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> Vermont was gentrified to begin with.

Only mostly the gold towns. Greenwich North.

Though, back in a day, the stat was that VT had more retired generals and witness relocates than any other State.

I'm still trying to figure out the implications of karma farming. Like what does this afford? I know that I have quite a bit of banked up karma but it's never done any good for me!

For reference, I am a transplant. In every single state in the country this is happening. Economically speaking from a macro POV, it's not wealthy people moving here that is a death knell. It's short-term rentals owned by longtime property owners. This might shock you but wealthy longtime Vermont landowners are reaping the rewards of this right now. It's not necessarily an out-of-towner issue.

IMHO it's not an instant solution but press legislators to ban Airbnb from the state and watch housing open up again (albeit slightly).

The catch-22 of out of towners moving here is while it will drive the prices of homes up, it will create a wealthier tax bracket and create greater opportunity to fund housing initiatives.

Without economic growth, it's incumbent on Vermont's current tax revenue to create affordable housing, which is a tall task given the current numbers.

It is simply impossible to not service out of towners moving here, or simply ban them from moving here.

Press legislators to subsidize housing with newly acquired tax revenue and ban short term rentals immediately.

Goes for everywhere.

Your smug condescension is only outdone by your shit reddit karma. Vermonters are by and large poor. Just the stats on 1st gen to go to college should be an eye-opener. Or the need for student assistance, mentoring. Vermonters survive by wearing many hats.

Newcomers over the past 5 decades have not displaced natives to the degree happening now. Your blatant insensitivity calls you out for the butthole you are.

Karma farming by the looks of it. Might be a legit person running it but 12K Karma in a month. Jesus. Like someone said above: Go Outside. Touch grass.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gentrification

Note the parentheses. Rural and suburban areas see the same exact thing.

Perhaps it is best to understand the concept of the landed gentry, which is where the term originates. It had little to do with an urban setting.

Someone on our towns listserve referred to the new white people displacing the old white people as colonizers, and I had a bit of a chuckle.

Yes, and has been since prior to the revolution and founding of the United States.

This is happening throughout all of northern new england. People from elsewhere selling their suburban squat in PA/NJ/ FL/MA/... for 600-700K and buying up these parts at prices no regular Vermonter can afford. Welcome to the free market.

What made this place special was the fact that (apart from gold towns) it was quaint but mostly to visit, not to live here. Farm consolidation, McMansion development, .... this pastoral paradise is at risk of vanishing.

Telework and CV19 changed all that forever. Taxes gone up, COL is stupid expensive, services hard to come by....

After 30yrs here in one spot, wife-n-me saw the writing on the wall, sold the homestead and moved to Maine. Same problems there but marginally more affordable.

If you're young enough, ride it out, the relocates will go stir crazy and move out and the boomers will die off, leaving a more affordable market. Provided those fleeing the christo-fascist, climate-changed deep south don't overrun our border :)

Wealthy people would be the best thing to happen to the Kingdom IMO. Maybe you’d get some services.

I was under the impression that being a high school graduate was not an education and that to be educated that it would require me to have at least an associates degree.

Except that doesn't happen. There tons of opportunity out there you just have to have the gumption to train for it. Vermont is incredibly generous with in-state tuition aids and access to great educational resources. They're all not limited to a college degree either there are plenty of certification programs.

It certainly isn't waving a magic wand and takes some work and sacrifice, however if you fall into a certain socio-economic bracket you can and most likely will qualify for aid.

Also success isn't limited to artisans like you claim. Instead if you can work as a team and do support work you can find yourself as an integral part of a successful endeavor.

So to save Vermont, we should become North Korea. Gotcha No disrespect, I get you mad but answering “discrimination” with discrimination is dumb

You have an education, you merely lack a formal degree. Very different things.

Vote. Too many locals are losing their way of life because they have given up and don't vote. This is not only a VT issue but for other rural areas as well.

Hire an architect. I know for a fact that AES Northeast does this exact kind of work.

Right, well the premium's what you pay beforehand. Probably won't have to cover cost of rescue and cleanup if you die of course.

You clearly assume education means MBA, software engineering and investment banking. By your own words, education is only derived through college degrees not on the job training. But sure, I missed something. Have a great day!

Cool; well, missed chance for a riff on that bit.