Hmm. Good question 😆

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Thanks for the suggestions! That's really helpful 😊

Thanks, I'll look into it.

Thanks, we will check around. I doubt anywhere will pay as good as he's getting paid in Middlebury but that's the sacrifice we'll have to make I suppose.

My husband did mention that recently, but he said he's pretty sure most of it is reserved for students and healthcare workers.

Thanks for the advice and encouragement. We are definitely keeping our eyes open for mobile homes and have been since we moved here. We just don't want my husband driving more than 2 hours a day for work is all.

I suppose we could start looking elsewhere, but the place he's currently at has a lot of growth potential for his career and he's on track to being promoted soon. We would hate to have to leave because of that, but if we have to we will.

Aw, thank you! That's really great that you were able to find a home :) It's tough out there right now. I spent a little over a year in Idaho and loved it, because it really didn't feel that different from Montana. We've considered moving there but I hear it's pretty expensive too these days.

It is really nice up there, I would love to live in a place like that. My husband is working on his degree right now so hopefully someday we could go that way, but while he's working as a chef we have to stick close to more urban areas unfortunately. :(

Thank you!

I would love to. The question is whether or not there's anything out there for him to do work-wise.

Thank you for the kind words and encouragement, I really appreciate it. Yes, we had to commute quite a bit back home to in order to make money. With my husband being a chef, we have to live within driving distance of larger cities, so we're used to it. We really don't want to live farther out than an hour though, that would just be too much unless the pay was incredible, which rarely is the case for kitchen workers.

We have been looking at mobile homes as well as fixer uppers that don't require too much work because my husband doesn't have time to work on a house between his job and school and I don't know anything about DIY and have a baby to watch all day. If it just looks shabby and needs a paint job though that's no problem.

We will do our best to keep our heads up and find a way out of this. Just the waiting is the hard part.

And all of the taxes we pay on goods and services because we do all of our shopping in Vermont? I guess those don't count for anything either.

We have been looking in New York too.

Okay, nice to know, thank you 😊

Very true. Yes, we are definitely keeping Rutland on our radar.

We were actually just looking in that area yesterday online! Will definitely be keeping it in mind, thanks. 😊

It's not bad, but interest rates are high to buy right now and nothing is available to buy or rent in our price range. Also it would be nice to live closer to Middlebury for my husband's work so he doesn't have to drive almost two hours every day. He keeps saying that no one can get help out there because no one can afford to live there, like us. If Middlebury wants services they really need to have housing. :(

I haven't heard of that before, but I do know we don't qualify for a lot of things because we're not first time home buyers and because my husband "makes too much". Of course they don't factor in taxes or food or insurance or anything else that leaves us with barely anything at the end of the month :(

I really didn't want to live in town but we have accepted that we'll probably have to. We've been keeping townhouses on our radar, along with anything else within driving distance.

We haven't been able to save much money since food and the cost of living is so high, so we'd be lucky to be able to put down 3% :( But it's really nice! We'll keep it on my mind, thank you.

We are looking literally anywhere within an hour if Middlebury, so yes. 👍

Thanks, I appreciate it. 🙏

:( I hadn't heard about that other stuff.