As plenty have said its becoming outdated, especially in towns with more than a few hundred people.

Those who are offended by it being called quaint are the folks who keep Vermont stuck in the 1980s, fighting any change that comes their way.

My employer goes, takes the day off, we employees don't get the day off to go.

Don't let the upvotes go to your head. We like the picture but if you think this is a Vermont only thing you have lived a very sheltered life.

So many of you are being jerks. Yeah I said it. Y'all can leave Vermont and make room for the newcomers.

Are you okay? Are you getting the care you need?

Do you like when folks misrepresent your beliefs to others? Because that is what is happening here.

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?

Aren't you from Maine? Who are you calling a newcomer?

What if, and I'm just spitballing here, the economic disparity that puts Vermonters at a disadvantage isn't the fault of those dreaded outsiders but our own decisions for generations?

Or is it just easier to blame others for your disadvantage?

Vermont was gentrified to begin with.

Are you okay?

Upvoting a post that violates the rules to mock people...

No wonder people think Vermonters are, in fact, the assholes.

Jeez, how many accounts have you been through? What happens when you run out of ways to riff on ARealVermonter?

All the trashy comments are why VT isn't the place it used to be. It's not the newcomers, it's the new generations of 'good enough' Vermonters who don't have the pride their five in the ground had. Cars falling apart, homes half painted, outbuildings in ruin but not demolished, broken rusty equipment beyond the point of repair littering the property, and complaining when someone wants them to do something about it.

Downvote away, fellow woodchucks, but it's your fault the state has declined. You owe your parents' and grandparents' legacies better than this.

So this sub is just assholes now. I see.

Russian troll?

This sub reminds me of the plot of Ghostbusters II. It feeds on negative energy.

Karmafarming by sharing things we hate.

I think the consensus you are getting is that many Vermonters have it worse, so be thankful it's just $20.

Are you quoting the New Yorkers when they see a bus from Vermont pull up in Times Square?

This sub is not exclusively the domain of residents only. It can be about anything Vermont related.

Every state bordering us hates how we drive and if you venture out of state into a big city with green plates you will automatically be labelled as a traffic hazard.

Let that sink in before becoming preachy about 'everyone else' being bad drivers.