Not health inspectors anywhere. Massachusetts, NY and Pennsylvania were all way more on top of it and way more strict. Also the codes themselves were much better. No one here seems to have heard of a haccp plan ever.

I’d like to know more and see if it’s different in other states. Must be able to inspect the whole system somehow.

If they’re anything like the Vt health inspectors, I wouldn’t hold my breath for them to fix anything.

Of course! Best of luck! It’s a beautiful little state and a great place to live and have kids. Something else worth mentioning is that this state is one of the few that I know that decides school funding at a state level, so the quality of a school is to a small extent more decoupled from the amount of property taxes that municipality collects.

I think it’s kinda tricky around here. I’m white so take all of this with a grain of salt. Everyone in my circles would love to see this state become more racially diverse but it’s hard for a couple reasons: Firstly we’re basically tied with Maine for being the whitest state in the country. And while many people are well meaning/liberal they tend to be in cities and more egalitarian in theory than practice (mostly because they have so few interactions with people of color, and especially black people). Also this just means that finding any non-white community may be quite difficult. Secondly, outside of towns it can get pretty bad pretty quickly. A lot of maga, blue stripe flags, but also things like a school board preventing the students from being able to hang a blm flag or a pride flag officially. There is an ongoing aclu lawsuit against a school district for racial harassment (from memory there were students seig heil-img, and using racial epithets) My part of the state is also adjacent to NH which I think is decidedly worse in most of these respects. But our school district is notably more diverse and welcoming.

Also I’d be wary about Killington. May be able to make good money but, it’ll be pretty short term (ski season goes through may maybe?) I don’t know what summers look like there but I’d recommend finding out before it comes up. A lot of our support programs are fairly good, but it’s not the best place to find a job, especially not one with a good enough pay to afford to find housing around here. It’s a bad situation. In my town there’s like 1-2 rentals listed per month, because the majority of spots become short term rentals or are just overwhelmed by demand. If you’re trying to buy a property you’re competing with New Yorkers and Connecticuters who just have much more money than can be competed with mostly.

I think the other piece of it is that we are so connected to how hands should look and move. So when they look off it’s immediately apparent. If you look closely at any part of this picture it’s definitely off. No plaid looks like that )but it should it looks great, that’s not what real knitting looks like, the buckles aren’t quite right, the strap kinda wraps behind the neck more than is natural, the hair, eyes chicken face are all a bit off. But hands being a little off appear super off and the uncanny valley of them is steep and wide, so not only is it worse at them but there’s an anthrocentric (if that’s a word) issue with them too. If some other creature looked at ai of itself it might notice something off being more disturbing that would pass unnoticed to us.

Also if you stir the leftover a lot as it cools you make perfect maple cream!

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With how much harm happens to non-white folk (the indicators used in the study) this seems like we’re just bragging about how white and not poor the state is.