cookie love in north ferrisburgh!

Silloway’s Maple in Randolph might. They have an open house the next couple of weekends. Worth a call. Best maple creamee I’ve had.

Ridge Coffee Roasters in Monkton. Pick up a bag at the Middlebury co-op

Vivid.

Maybe if people stopped voting for Phil Scott we’d have safe injection sites in VT.

Hell no.

Phil Scott absolutely hates the idea of supervised injection sites. Vermonters get what they vote for.

Last time I checked they had about $50,000,000 lying around from the pandemic money to help people with this sort of thing.

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I am not 100% following your thought process.

I do agree that childcare in Vermont is over regulated. In my opinion it is the primary factor.

The laws put forth by our politicians closed many options AND took classrooms away from elementary schools which in turn is forcing many towns to put forth bonds in order to build more classrooms. In essence, childcare went up in pricing, taxes in the form of a bond for expansion went up, and taxes for the yearly budget went up.

I quite like Uncommon Coffee in Essex Junction, the Sundown Decaf Blend is SOOO good. Brio is also fantastic. Vermont Coffee Company has been disappointing so I'd skip that one.

Funny enough this stage has some of the nicer roads in the NE

Church of Scientology isn't a religion, and they'll be the first to tell you that

Waterbury has some major characters and interesting history.

Edit: Waterbury gives use Kathi Tarrant.

All of the moral compunction is gone when you're dead.

awake is total trash garbage though. so many defects and quakers per bag, and they try to sell it at specialty coffee prices

Long time resident of Waterbury; I spoke with the Amtrack employee that saw it all happen. Per the worker, it was definitely suicide, the woman had been meandering around station parking lot and adjacent park muttering to herself for several hours before the train arrived. Obviously not in the right mindset and it’s horrible she got to this point, but the thousand yard stare the Amtrack worker had combined with his recounting of the incident (let’s just say the wheels got to her first) gives me less sympathy. Suicidal ideation and actions are awful, but there is no reason to mentally scar strangers (obviously friends and family will be hurt regardless of the method) with your actions in doing so. Simply no avoiding the fact that this will cause years of struggle for the people she brought into it.

I remember less the 10 years ago someone jumped off the bridge Infront of the train. Also the old mental institution used to be in Waterbury and now there is a few people left behind. If you are there long enough you get to know them. I love Waterbury though.

Makes sense. Thanks for elaborating, I appreciate it!

Drug problems, higher comparative crime to the rest of the state(still low overall though), lack of housing, lack of services in VT which drives down on their luck people to the cities here in the first place... take your pick. It's hard to live here compared to the midwest.

I know. And it’s probably the best possible thing that could happen. I’m just saddened and a little salty that so much of Vermont is a tourist attraction catering to folks who don’t live here while those who do can’t afford even a crappy apartment, nevermind a home.

It was already unused. What do you want? More abandoned decaying buildings in Bennington? You can bet the Airbnb owners are furious about this.

Thank you for your help!

By "problems it's facing", do you mean housing shortage/lack of affordability, or drug problem? Or other?

I am just curious. Fortunately, I should be able to absorb the hit of Burlington's cost of living compared to Marquette's with the job, but just wanted to pick your brain further.

I appreciate it!

what somebody's parents make for money shouldn't have anything to do with how much college costs. i guess i'm baffled at all the help everybody seems to be receiving. your parents can make a million dollars a year and still not give you single penny for college. your parents do not have to provide a roof or food the moment you turn 18. i get that a lot of people are in better situations, but jeez the blindness. an 18 yr old needing to house & feed themselves while working as many hours as they can at a minimum wage hs diploma job can't afford a timely college degree in vermont. PERIOD.

Marquette is much smaller and FEELS like a small town. Burlington isn't much of a city but it feels a lot bigger than it actually is, mostly due to the problems it's facing. It's been a couple years since I've been to Marquette but I'd pick that over Burlington any day if I were you. I took a quick peek at housing costs and while Marquette is still higher than average due to the college, it looks way cheaper than Burlington still.

I wanted to escape the Midwest but if I were going to move back it'd be to the UP somewhere or maybe Milwaukee.