Awful.

I’m a Vermonter, and I agree with you, @jakefrommyspace. Plus, for about as long as I can remember, people have been saying some—though not all—of what OP is saying. Our state is getting old, people. We need young families to settle here. Of course, we also need actual mass transit, but that’s another post.

True Vermont answer!

When I got broken into it took them over two hours to come. And I live 2 miles from the barracks.

Just saw this! Crazy! Glad it isn't WWIII; sad it isn't aliens.

The problem is that every single session our elected officials spend more time on bills that will raise our taxes than on o initiatives to bring more revenue to Vermont. The last big idea was to offer rich out of staters who work remotely$6000 to move here. Phil Scott refused to stop that social experiment despite the havoc it’s caused with our housing market and the fact that it doesn’t provide workers needed to fill jobs here.

Obviously you’re not a golfer.

Whoa how dare you attack the idea of Vermont exceptionalism!? VTers of all stripes agree we’re one of a kind so no other concepts apply to anything going on here! Definitely also not this ‘climate refugee’ business I keep hearing about!

STR make up slightly less than 2.5% of total housing stock in the state. That includes summer camps and rooms in homes. STR is the distraction you are being sold to not get you to look at the real problem which is endemic multigenerational rural poverty and state regulations which make owing a business and employing people in this state more difficult then most places.

Our schools are near that top in spending but educational testing for basic math and reading puts our state at about the middle of the country. VT tax burden puts it at number 47 in the country (1 being the best). The answer is not banning STR the answer is changing the laws and tax structure to not hate the middle class so much.

VT is great if you are poor and great if you are rich. Those of us in the middle are generally fucked.

https://taxfoundation.org/publications/state-local-tax-burden-rankings/

OP is like Rama from the right, love match? Super trolly, rather than pesky feelgood this one comes in nativist persecution flavor! How many anti-union people can you unionize? Anarchists Unite!

If gentrification were a movie it would be Invisible Hand II: the Bitch-Slappening of America. Weak/unenforced campaign finance laws and other types of unsexy-yet-evil corruption have guaranteed the gamification of the retail market. Answer is more regulation and organization but it’s too late because that’s what only lefties want not righties or liberals. If you want to prove me wrong let’s see Sherman Anti-Trust act get used substantially ever again.

Nah, dude creates a scenario with fake quotes he made up and attributed to the other guy. Then tries to turn it around and say you don’t understand. BS. Dude is a choad who trolls.

I did after this exchange. Idk what he was getting at, it’s obviously a thing.

Good luck with that windmill!

Certifications certainly count. Presumably some one taught you your job via on the job training. All that is educational. Perhaps not a formal classroom education, but still. Some colleges and universities even give life experience credits for things learned outside a formal classroom. It’s all education. Point being there are several official english dictionary definitions for “education”, but only one specifically points out schools and even then it uses the modifier “especially” but not “only at”

the boomers thought the good times would never end. signed: a kid whos family owned dozens of acres of land on cape cod that was sold and mostly spent before i was even born. what little is left is going on to subsidize the postwar consumerist lifestyle of the postwar consumerist generation that are all retired now.

google rural gentrification

Sorry to hear that. You deserve much better in VT. Here in Jersey, this was inevitable. And the millionaires around our region of our state as well as as some of our own waiting to sell their own friends out were doing cartwheels in the aftermath of Sandy. Many suffered. Some profited. The many are gone. The some have taken over.

Gatekeeping, gatekeeping, you don't have to post it!

> A society that only rewards MBAs, software engineers, and investment bankers can’t exist.

My man, there’s more to education than formal degrees. Try again.

I have a certification from ubiquiti for wireless broadband and FIS fiber installer. That's all recent though.

LOL. Gotta love people who cannot clearly express their points and then blame everyone else for not “getting it”. Good night.

Anything you learn adds to your education, be it a binary search tree in CS 201 or the national electrical code on a job site.

You want change that would help but almost no one would support. Reduce acreage minimums for residential development across the state.

My house is on 3.5 acres in a subdivision from the 90s. We were rezoned to a 5 acre minimum a few years ago. So my current, very spacious lot and those of all my neighbors' wouldn't be allowed today for being too small. Our dozen houses would be 7.

It's the same thing. Still love the NJ Shore also.

I’m a Jersey Shore local (but I come to VT to snowboard for annually for 25 years and come with respect for the land, the locals, and support of small businesses). The last 2 winters in Southern and Central VT, I’ve been saddened, sickened, disgusted to finally realize what already happened to the Jersey Shore year round communities right after Super Storm Sandy in 2012 is happening to these communities in VT. The town I grew up in is not remotely affordable anymore unless you’re a hedge fund manager. Most homes are either second homes only occupied from May to September, or owned by absent owners who live in the Midwest and profit mightily on using the properties as Air BnB money makers. Long time businesses got priced out with rent hikes. The school district enrollment plummeted because middle class families were driven out of town and/or offered 5 times what a house was worth sight unseen (home then demolished and McMansion built is the theme on every block). From what I see with my own eyes this winter, and the stories I hear in VT, it sure reminds me of my home in the last 10 years. Am I wrong? Please let me know if my perception is off.