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[deleted] t1_j9jlbxh wrote

5th generation Vermonter here. My family came here in the early 1800s to cut stone...

I welcome all those who have moved here: Place of origin is not indicative of whether someone makes a good neighbor or not, neither is the length of time you have lived here.

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balding_dad t1_j9i0z8b wrote

Vermont: the number one import is people, the number one export is people

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phred14 t1_j9j7em5 wrote

Years ago we were in Hawaii for our 30th Anniversary. At some point we were talking to some locals, and they were lamenting that their biggest export was their youth. "The kids just want to get off the rock."

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ReasonableLiving5958 t1_j9jjmit wrote

7th generation Vermonter. Born and raised.

I welcome out of staters though. Unless you come just to buy a house to stay in for a week out of the year and Air BnB it the rest. Then you can eat my shit.

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baldsicle t1_j9j3jqb wrote

Nativism is apparently under duress in Vermont. There was a time in our country that freedom of movement, exploration and personal adventure were embraced as virtue. Now, NIMBY includes interstate movement. SMH

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General_Skin_2125 t1_ja36ka9 wrote

I don't necessarily know if it's nativism. Are there any specific laws protecting residents over out of staters?

It's the natural progression of tribalism, especially in times of stress or strain, when money is tight, and those with money (i.e. out of staters) want a slice of your pie.

(Not a VT resident, went to college in VT and longtime lurker).

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patsboston t1_j9hqgbd wrote

Born in NH but moved to Vermont when I was 3. Grew up in VT and parents still live there. Does that still make me a native Vermonter?

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TwoNewfies t1_j9jq53o wrote

No! Just because a cat has kittens in the oven... There's a book "Real Vermonters Don't Milk Goats" that lays it all out. I don't as married into a really real (related to most of the state, names on historical markers) VT family, who just couldn't see the jokes in that book!

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stinkystinkymmmm t1_j9i48r7 wrote

Should probably be a 3rd option. A ton of people I know lived in Vt their whole life but were born out of state cause of the hospital. I was moved here when I was three, but my family's got roots here.

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smackjelly t1_j9hpu6k wrote

Moved from out of state 15 years ago. My kids are born here, they’re 14 and 12. Im never leaving.

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alexopposite t1_j9jdsdx wrote

I am in almost exactly the same situation, just a few years ahead of you. My oldest kids are about to head off to college... Out of state.

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canthaveme t1_j9hv6sl wrote

Born here. Raised here. Go on vacation vacation and realize I don't like other places as much

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RoyalIndependence500 t1_j9jiuor wrote

Born in Rutland. Moved as a kid. Came back after living all over the country. There is no place else I will ever live. My mom, who was not from Vermont, always told me I was a Vermonter. That stuck with me all my life so if you say I’m not a native you’re calling my mom a liar and those are fighting words!

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MarkVII88 t1_j9jsikr wrote

My wife is a 4th generation Vermonter. Her family came from French-speaking Quebec around the turn of the 20th Century. I moved here 20 years ago when we got married, and we've since created the 5th generation of Vermonters in the family.

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tollivandi t1_j9k6ji6 wrote

3rd generation here, also coming from Quebecois stock in the early 1900s.

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bagelman10 t1_j9mb8pb wrote

Are you a native american? I'm just about ready to leave this subreddit. All i hear is whining and complaining here.

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RecordingDifferent47 t1_j9jel58 wrote

Native. Born in Rutland, lived in Ludlow. Most of the family is still in Ludlow. Dad was a transplant, lived and worked in Springfield for many years.

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Mmmmffffeeerrrr t1_j9kfft9 wrote

I was born here to hippies who moved in before i was born. I grew up feeling like an outcast with all my friends whose families had deer camps shot guns rode snowmobiles. I try to have understanding for the newer transplants but it is very frustrating with housing and some development issues.

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mikey_hawk OP t1_j9kkilj wrote

Same here. I used to hate my foreign-sounding last name, too. It was never pronounced right announced at swim meets, little league etc.

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Mmmmffffeeerrrr t1_j9kn87u wrote

Same with the name! If you weren't a greenslit ploof foy charbeneau and so on it was weird.

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niefer t1_j9m7nzc wrote

900 votes and no one is upvoting the post? Ferkin flatlernders.

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DayFinancial8206 t1_j9ht0rd wrote

Born here, lived the west coast for a bit, then back here, probably moving again now that all my friends that were born here have left the state lol

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tatogb25 t1_j9k98t9 wrote

Born and raised in VT for many generations back on both sides. Whole family still lives there. I moved out of state but like to keep tabs

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bibliophile222 t1_j9hs7kj wrote

I never know what to say when people ask where I'm from. I was born in NH and lived there until I was 8, then spent ages 8-18 in VT, then moved to MA for college and spent over a decade there, then moved back to VT for grad school. I wasn't born here, but I do identify with it more than any other state.

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balding_dad t1_j9i17o4 wrote

Have you unironically called someone a flatlander? That seems like a pretty good litmus test to me.

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SilverKelpie t1_j9metl7 wrote

Same. I was born in Virginia, but we moved when I was 5 years old, so all I have is a handful of memories. Am I from Virginia? I spent my formative childhood years in Kansas. Am I from Kansas? I lived the majority of my life in Texas. Am I from Texas? I live in Vermont now and feel more at home than anywhere else I've lived. Am I from Vermont? At this point I favor using where I am currently living, but I struggled with the answer for a long time since people have different, and strangely intense, ideas of the definition of "from" in the question.

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zisnotabird t1_j9hxafh wrote

I’m not native born but I moved here by my first birthday so I feel like that counts?

Then again people treated my family like outsiders because we didn’t have a recognizable last name and my siblings were only second generation.

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RZRPRINCESS t1_j9k3cqz wrote

Don't feel bad I'm a native and people don't recognize my last name until I get into the nitty gritty of my family tree, having to explain it is tiresome. Once they are like "oh I know your uncle" I'm good but still please stop asking if I just moved here LOL

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yoeddyVT t1_j9i7ksk wrote

Can I select both?

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I was born in Vermont, but moved to Boston after college. 15 years of Boston, we moved back to Vermont.

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Astroloach t1_j9iksw8 wrote

Native born but haven't always lived there and am currently on the other side of the country.

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Food_Library333 t1_j9ja60j wrote

Born here but moved when I was 19 to Vegas. Moved back when I was 23 and then moved back to Vegas when I was 29. Moved back here when I was 39. Never leaving again.

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19Vinny_The_Vet92 t1_j9jtrty wrote

To be fair, I didn’t have a choice. I was 2 when my parents got out of active duty military. TECHNICALLY, all I know is Vermont.

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Anxious-Captain737 t1_j9k5bd1 wrote

yes i was born here not sure i will die here this state is changed so much

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builtforcameron t1_j9ku6jr wrote

I was born and raised in Vermont. My mom is from Long Island, and on my dads side i have an ancestor who is buried in Montpelier, died fighting in the Revolutionary War. To me, theres really no difference. Just a weird xenophobic sentiment shared among locals, it definitely stems from pride. Sure its annoying when massholes etc come up and drive like absolute maniacs but pretty much every state has that.

Something interesting I did hear from some coworkers at an old job, A LOT of native Vermonters leave but a decent amount of those end up coming back. I'm in my early 20s and planning to leave within the next few years, so we'll see what happens

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Nanotude t1_j9oqed1 wrote

What am I if family moved here in the 1700s, helped incorporate a town or two, and moved away 150 years later, and now I'm back?

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phred14 t1_j9j7brs wrote

My wife is from Vermont, though.

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rufustphish t1_j9l3h6y wrote

What if you're closest hospital is in NH?

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QualityRescue t1_j9laby3 wrote

Generations mean so much to Vermonters...

In my direct male line was a sailor from the Mayflower who stayed and worked in the pilgrim's colony their first winter then sailed back to England. He moved to Virginia sometime before 1640 as an indentured servant to wealthy Quaker settlers and later married a Native American woman.

On my mom's side the family's time in America goes back to coastal Connecticut in the 1630s. There's a book about the family and their home is part of a historic district.

But in Vermont if you had family here by 1900 it makes you special.

Does anyone care? Should they?

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richstowe t1_j9kq6mf wrote

So dick or not , if you feel like a woman, JKR be damned, you're a woman but

if you were born at Dartmouth Medical Center , you're a foreigner ? Got it !

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AnyRound5042 t1_j9hp1ln wrote

Born in Massachusetts and live in Massachusetts but I have family in Vermont and spend a lot of weekends in Vermont so I'm not gonna answer the poll

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AnyRound5042 t1_j9hp45k wrote

I did live in Vermont for a little bit some years ago

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