So you’re saying homeless people should freeze to death in abandoned buildings? I don’t get how that helps the homeless. But at least you don’t have to see them so I guess you feel better.

Nah it opens a gate not a terminal.

Hopefully that will change, we’ve got three OK airlines and JetBlue kind of sucks.

Sure it might happen, there was talk about it before the pandemic but then nothing got built.

Could be, from what I heard Southwest wasn’t impressed by the local amenities. The major sticking point was probably them not having their own terminal.

It currently is out of the question, BTV previously tried and failed to get Southwest.

Southwest declined service at Burlington because the city lacked a hotel right by the airport and because Southwest wanted their own terminal which isn’t possible. This was a few years ago when the previous airport head was planning to build a hotel on site or adjacent and that came to nothing.

VT has the oldest housing stock in the country so assume any home will need work.

Russia keeps attacking Ukrainian infrastructure like power plants. Outages are caused both by attacks on the power grid and shortages due to lack of resources both.

Except these are actual heroes and your complaint does not make sense. The field medics, trauma surgeons and nurses are fighting for their country same as the infantry, tank crews and pilots.

It’s funny you talk about yards, my land was a junkyard before I bought it and now it’s a lot better. No derelict vehicles, piles of car parts and all that. I don’t care if my neighbors are on my but if land unless it damages the land or endangers me.

Less than 5000 people moved here during the pandemic if I remember right. I moved here about four years ago well before the pandemic and I’ve tried to integrate. Mostly keep to myself because that’s who I am but I’m friendly, don’t bother anybody and don’t care about what people do on their land. The problems I’ve had in this state were caused by locals doing dumb shit like not leashing aggressive dogs and letting them bother me on my land or riding ATV’s across my land in mud season. I let it go because again trying to integrate.

My favorite might be one I first bought my place and some neighbors came over and were more interested in making sure I wasn’t going to turn it into an Airbnb than knowing my name. Or when another neighbor decided my lawn was getting too high so they scalped it not understanding that I let it grow a bit on purpose. Talk about passive aggressive, I bought a house in the country so I wouldn’t have to worry about HOA type bullshit. Yeah transplants bring their own problems by the locals cause plenty.

This sounds like the nation in general, the pandemic and political insanity of the last few years has made people shortsighted and angry. Folks are struggling financially too both due to the pandemic and now due to inflation and corporations exploiting consumers with unnecessarily high prices for basics like food and fuel. odds are you’d have a similar experience in many parts of the country.

Not sure why you got downvoted, I had the same attitude when I first moved here. I decided not to vote on any local issues for the first few years because I really don’t know what the state needs yet and because I don’t just vote for what I want but what I think will benefit most people.

Blah blah blah I’ve shot tens and tens of thousands of rounds over the years and yeah I know what it’s like to shoot a firearm without ear pro. My tinnitus is ringing as I type. Deputy Stupid was drunk and refused to drop his gun even when guns were drawn on him by cops. He was given multiple commands to drop his gun by police in uniform and he refused to so he got shot. And don’t you dare lecture me about firearms and gunfights when you limp wristed your Glock and caused it to malfunction repeatedly. Because that’s pretty much the only thing that will cause the Glock to malfunction unless you were feeding it reloads.

So this is extremely rough math but one could build four 250 unit apartment complexes on about 4 to 5 acres of land total depending on if there was below ground parking or not. I’m talking about very simple housing with 500 ft.² units in a 5 story building. If you make it five stories the footprint is about 25,000 ft.², add another 2,000-3,000 ft.² for paths, exterior building dimensions and whatever.

That leaves you with about 16,000 ft.². Your average parking space is about 320 ft.² you’ve only got parking for about 50 cars at max. One level of below ground parking would easily add another 50 cars. If each building lot was 1.5 acres you can get to about 200 cars between above and below ground parking, still a little short so maybe bump up to 7 acres for 1,000+ cars.

So yeah it’s not as simple as building a single family home on .08 acres but there has to be 6-7 buildable acres somewhere in this county. Hell build all four together, makes building parking easier. Or get a shuttle bus or two running nonstop into Burlington, that would be great for people who can’t afford, don’t want or can no longer drive a car.

Is it perfect? Hell no but I look at my little neighborhood and we have about eight houses on about 25 acres housing maybe 25 people on the outskirts of Chittenden County and my roughed out idea houses 40 times as many on 30% as much land. And yes I’m talking about very basic accommodations but that would work fine for a lot of working class people and young people. They’d still be close enough to commute to work without breaking the bank and if it was financially feasible a shuttle system would help even more. It doesn’t solve for all problems but it definitely helps.

The NIMBY assholes and all the red tape you have to cut through to build a house here certainly doesn’t help. Chittenden county desperately needs affordable housing and the most cost effective and efficient way to do so is to build some medium rise apartment complexes. The working class and lower middle class people who work in Chittenden county need a place to live that isn’t some shitty house build 150 years ago subdivided into studios that won’t get to 67° inside with the heat on full blast. It also shouldn’t be so difficult nor expensive to build a house in this state. Just the permitting and environmental impact bs to put in a septic system cost as much as the system. It’s urine and feces not radioactive waste or coal ash for crying out loud both do not hurt the environment much.

So I’m originally from Los Angeles and still have friends there. A few of them have been trying to buy a condo or townhouse for a couple years and consistently get beat by cash bids and a lot of those cash bids are coming from investors or companies that run massive amounts of properties. Investors aren’t content to just own apartment complexes now, there’s plenty of money to be made from owning individual units or slowly buying up an entire condo complex. Same thing is happening here and the more real estate that is held by a handful of people or companies the higher prices go.

Except we do need new residents, if you haven’t noticed all the businesses closing or that are barely open because they can’t staff up you must not go out much. Yes the state doesn’t need more work from home remote job types, the state needs blue collar workers and the lack of affordable housing or housing in general deters people from coming here as does typical crap Vermont wages. But people with money bought up large amounts of property for rentals or Airbnb, that’s the real problem.

Something to consider is lower income people are leaving the state. I don’t have numbers but I know a few who have left and a few are leaving, all are lower middle class. Most were priced out or sold and moved somewhere where their money went further. I don’t know a whole lot of people but the people I do know are working blue colored folk and a lot are getting pushed out.

I’m a transplant too, came here about four years ago. Bought a house that had sat on the market because back then the market was pretty soft. It’s lovely here and I’ve tried to integrate but it’s getting harder to justify staying since everything is more expensive here. It’s hard paying $6,000 in property taxes a year after the homestead exemption when I could sell and buy a house almost for cash with the proceeds in a lower tax state.

Those 5,000 people didn’t drive up home prices by 50-100+%. transplants are nowhere near the primary cause of housing prices going crazy.

Most first world nations are suffering the same or worse economic problems and price hikes we’re dealing with.

It doesn’t apply since both men were drunk, aggressive and armed. Even if the deputy didn’t start the fight he was out drinking at three in the morning while carrying which is extremely stupid and generally illegal. He then was dumb enough to not drop the gun after repeated orders to do so and he’s lucky to be alive.

Your situation is different, you’re not running into sad shitty people out looking for a fight.

There is a massive difference between carrying a gun to feel like a tough guy and carrying a gun because you’ve seen horrible things in this world. Smart people who carry carry concealed are the politest person in the room practicing deescalation and conflict avoidance because it’s your last option, not your first.