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joeydokes t1_j8jqbgj wrote

This is happening throughout all of northern new england. People from elsewhere selling their suburban squat in PA/NJ/ FL/MA/... for 600-700K and buying up these parts at prices no regular Vermonter can afford. Welcome to the free market.

What made this place special was the fact that (apart from gold towns) it was quaint but mostly to visit, not to live here. Farm consolidation, McMansion development, .... this pastoral paradise is at risk of vanishing.

Telework and CV19 changed all that forever. Taxes gone up, COL is stupid expensive, services hard to come by....

After 30yrs here in one spot, wife-n-me saw the writing on the wall, sold the homestead and moved to Maine. Same problems there but marginally more affordable.

If you're young enough, ride it out, the relocates will go stir crazy and move out and the boomers will die off, leaving a more affordable market. Provided those fleeing the christo-fascist, climate-changed deep south don't overrun our border :)

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Intelligent-Hunt7557 t1_j8kfa9n wrote

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!

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joeydokes t1_j8kwjxn wrote

VT was exceptional, outside the developed parts; a state of mind.

Sadly, the new normal is changing all that.

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