CityPlace Burlington, as brought to you by South Park.
Welome home.

If you have access to the local Dollar stores, they have shelves STOCKED with food.

$1 can get you over a pound of rice; pasta, sauces, etc.

In Chittenden county they're building like crazy. And it's all being bought up for airbnb or renting out for like $2.5k a month for a one-bedroom. Building isn't the problem.

It's a legit question, but I like the implication that it's something we might not have looked into or thought about.
"Why haven't we?" is a good question. Rocks.
But the thought that it never occurred to us? Wat

Love it.
"Oh wow, guys! There's this crazy new thing other people are doing! Did you know we can... BURY our power lines?! Spread the word!"

Do you want to wait until spring thaw to fix wiring problems? And we can't "just dig" through rock. We'd have to blast the neighborhood.

It's just time to get out of the city, you know? Finally have that dream that I'll be able to automatically set up a little farm on a few acres of land (because being a farmer is super easy and totally affordable, especially for newbies) where I can work from remotely from home and ignore advice that all-weathers will be fine in the winter. That's what Vermont is and what Vermonters do, you know?
Fast forward: "WHY is there no high-speed internet and WHY are heating costs so high and WHY can't I get my drive plowed as SOON as it snows and OHMIGOD these roads have black ice! And-"

Complete morons with no critical thinking skills WHATsoever. It was “safe” up here because we were masking, distancing, and generally followed the rules. Soooo they came up here and thought, wow, I feel really safe, better take off my mask and get pissed that I’m being made to follow the rules, too? The ones that are keeping people safe? What do you MEAN the people who took this seriously aren‘t letting ME break the rules?

I think that was our breaking point with tourists. We finally started telling them “no”, you AREN’T above us, and BOY did they get piiiissed… That hospitality effed all the way off when they showed they didn’t really give a crap about us as people.

Like when they came here IN A PANDEMIC to rip their masks off and “breathe a little”! I loathed those people. Treated our home like a f*cking day spa they were entitled to and couldn’t have cared less that they were risking infecting and killing all the locals.
You know. The ones they’re angry at now for not staffing all the restaurants.

It’s all these lazy locals who don‘t want to work anymore who are ruining MY vacations. Six dollars an hour and my five dollar tip is more than enough for them and their pitiful 2k one-bedroom apartments.

The little red-eared sliders hold a soft spot in my heart for some reason.
But I'd love to see the sturgeon come back with force. Actual lake monsters up to 12ft long? Yes, please

You got this!
Nah, a lot of people come here from cities thinking we're slow hillbillies for how we drive, and very confidently zoom straight off the road. As long as nobody dies, we kiiiind of think it's hilarious. Deer and black ice come out of NOWHERE up here.
ETA one time in high school my friends and I were taking it slow on the highway in winter when a Mass plate shot by with a middle finger up. Three miles later they had a car full of high schoolers laughing and waving at them as we went by them sitting in the ditch.

Make investment AirBNBs illegal. Tax the ever-loving SHIT out of summer homes. Rent cap.
There. Got 'em started.

It's also a massive problem that everyone moving in has remote jobs and overpays for housing, flooding out the locals and upending the already difficult housing economy.
That said, yes, Bernie. We love him. We keep voting him in because the vast majority of us agree with him. I also think Brattleboro still has a warrant out on George W. Bush; they announced that if he ever set foot in their town he would be arrested for crimes against the constitution. (The news said it was a joke. The town countered and said it was not a joke.)

Well, shoot. As a lib, I think I just got owned.

Holy shit. You charge $2,444 a month in rent. And "he", one person, skipped town?If this is real and accurate then that hurts MY brain.

Probably in desperate need because rent is almost $2.5k a month for one person, under you. So.

They were setting off whole-ass fireworks in Winooski the other night. Backyard kegger.

That, and all the license plates.

It would sure solve a hell of a lot. Rich people milking money out of properties they don't live in will be upset, but who gives a shit about that?

We bristle when entitled people bang into our home calling us backwoods morons who should be grateful for their money, and mock us when we get upset at having parts of our state bulldozed to make way for them. But who wouldn’t in that case?

Welcome! Glad you’re finding out we don’t bite, and neither do the bears!

VT native who has also lived in Manhattan. I’ve had two family members and some friends move out of Springfield, right around the time there was a third lockdown at the local grade school because an active shooter had walked across grounds. (Drug house next door.) I know city violence and I know small town violence, and Springfield has escalated far beyond small-town skirmishes. One of my friends literally had her small daughters in active shooter lockdowns twice in one school year.

You sound like a Grand Isle kind of guy.

Springfield is having a massive drug problem. Someone got shot in the back of the head and dumped on a backroad recently, and the townies are saying it’s because they pissed off the wrong dealers.

Real New Yorkers are nowhere near Times Square. 😆

If you really want that classic haunted New England vibe for Halloween, look up Emily’s bridge and swing by. You like bridges haunted by jilted lovers, right?

ETA The Trapp Family Lodge, if you feel like checking out the actual family The Sound of Music was based on.