She's had a pretty Stormy ride

I am not unhappy here, but as you relate to the world through your lens I do mine. I was injured and out of work for 2 years. Medical debt is no joke and the debt that comes with illness is terrible. I'm scared shitless to age here.

Happiness to me is different than for you, but all governments are fucked and this may be a case of the grass being greener, but accidents and life happen.

And Melania fool

I guess I don't see the added benefits just added cost to pay for those that don't pay for themselves anyway. And the reason I replied as to a measure of happiness with money, is I am just able to afford to be happy here now after lots of hard ass work, where the people I know from Europe have considerably less spare money, and considerably less assets for doing basically the same shit we do here for fun. The other thing is getting shaken down for every individual thing they can possibly hit you for, even just the euro MOT inspection for your average car would completely break most Americans as every inch of the car has to be 100% perfect.

You think VT was affordable in 2019? Or exponentially more so than now?

I really hate that I assume people are assholes on reddit. It is my usual experience and I apologize, but you didn't respond to what I was saying, you just started talking about taxes after I said I'm measuring by happiness. Also we pay up to %37 in taxes. I know I lose about 1/3 of my money to taxes. So instead of 3 paychecks going to the government wed lose 5. Not that big a jump for the benefits.

I wasn't trying to be a dick, I was inferring that the grass just looks greener on the other side, no matter what form of government you have, it has the key feature of humans, which are always prone to corruption, self enrichment, and the elite helping the elite. You're welcome to think whatever you want obviously.

Well, thank you for explaining to me, you sure ranted at me and taught me.... That you don't pay attention to the words and you are just spouting shit that gives nothing to the conversation. Here's your big reddit win. You got me, shit. How dare I measure a country by how happy people are.

300 foot statue of Bernie Sanders.

Restrictive covenants in the deed and mortgages with a "silent second" mortgage that needn't be paid back as long as property remains 'affordable housing'.

I think you are forgetting all the government forced taxes and fees for everything in those countries, you want to try to survive on 45% of what you earn? That doesn't make me very happy.

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We have our first winner.

When we first moved to morrisville 20 years ago lots of people were buying village homes for $100,000 to $200,00 and fixing them up to live in. Meanwhile businesses were starting to open on the downtown. It did not drive housing prices up that much. That didn’t happen until Covid. That’s when people realized vacation homes are basically free if you can pay mortgage and other expenses by renting them on Airbnb. Stowe became too expensive for all but the Uber rich so people started buying up morrisville properties

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Seconded for Boule!

Can he get life in prison for this?

> Jill Biden who’s coming

thought she hadn't done that in at least 20 years.

Happiness and quality of life is the metric I was using.

I have a question . How is this political theatre of any value to anyone ?

In what sense? It doesn't make anything more affordable or less expensive. It just means the government controls it, and having seen so many of our government programs even just the PPP program monumentally fail for the people it was supposed to help, how well do you think the nepotism of all our current or past 50 years democrat and republican government officials would do a massive government funded anything?

So it's more business space? Yay....

CityPlace Burlington, as brought to you by South Park.
Welome home.

Bottom line is that these landlord types are not making enough money off of long-term renters so they're all going to short term which is destroying the community and they don't give a shit.

Fuck Airbnb

I'm sorry you are not in a position to sell something you worked hard for, for $450 a night I guess...