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Vermont will cover $10K of expenses for people who move there and work remotely

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Post by notyourday »

tclancy wrote: post #124
notyourday wrote: post #40

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Vermont legislature is clueless if it thinks this or anything else other than a major overhaul of tax system and modernization of the infrastructure would bring people to Vermont. I spent a few weeks recently bumming around the state. 1) Contrary to what Vermonters may think, real estate in Vermont is expensive. Not NYC or SF expensive but none the less very expensive unless it is in a totally need to be burned and r…

>NH makes most of its revenue from property taxes and property taxes there are still smaller How are you defining "smaller"? NH is #2 and VT #9 at http://www.tax-rates.org/taxtables/property-tax-by-state

Mill rates are irrelevant. Assessments in VT are vastly higher.

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Post by zdragnar »

empath75 wrote: post #156
zdragnar wrote: post #141

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To be honest, most "anti-tax" people are fine with the theory, but don't trust that it will be well managed and, more importantly, preserved for lean times. Too often surpluses are immediately funneled to special projects that we could have been better off without. The "pro-tax" people in my area are also generally against this sort of thing, because they want nothing more than to take more money and spend it on spec…

Most anti tax people are just anti taxes on _me_

So are most pro-tax people, they're just pro-tax-everyone-else. Our governor is filthy rich, campaigned on raising the taxes on the one percent, and yet none of the taxes he wanted would have affected his trust fund income. What a surprise.

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Post by mbell »

Spooky23 wrote: post #185
mbell wrote: post #164

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> With skiing in the east an industry in rough shape since it doesn't snow anymore I'm not sure where you are coming up with that. In fact many places in the NE have have multiple top 10 all time snowfalls in the last 10 years. Climate change is expected to increase the precipitation in New England, particularly in the winter and the temperature increase can result in more snow due to the increased ability of the air…

The temperature swings are the killer — I think they lose about 8-10 days per season as compared to the 80s. https://www.northeastern.edu/climatereview/?p=282

That seems to be based on this paper: http://www.int-res.com/articles/cr2009/39/c039p001.pdf

That is a really weird paper, basically they are assuming that the 98-99 season is representative of some abstract season in the 2040-2069 time period which is at best a questionable assumption. But even with the questionability they are showing a 8-10day decrease sometime in 2040-2069?

I think they also leave out major changes in snowmaking. The mountains I visit have lost a lot of access to snowmaking due to regulations limiting their water use and changes to what bacterium are used for nucleation.

The temperature swings are in some cases actually a benefit for season longevity. What you often want is a good dumping early in the season and then some rain / wet snow followed by a freeze to build a good hard base for later in the season.

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Post by p1esk »

fringedgentian wrote: post #190
p1esk wrote: post #145

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I’m currently looking for a 3 bedroom apartment or a house to rent in Santa Barbara, and see nothing below $3K/mo. In fact anything decent is $3.5k or more. I work remotely, now looking for a cheaper place to live. What’s life like in Vermont?

Prices are not quite that high, even in our most expensive place, Burlington, which has great schools, is on a lake and has a great community. You can find places over 3k a month, but they are really nice places. I'd say you can find a decent 3-bedroom for 2k and up. (Most of the rentals for the state can be found on craigslist: https://vermont.craigslist.org/ ) But let me tell you about Montpelier, the smallest stat…

Is New England drug epidemic really as bad as the media leads one to believe? I mean, in Santa Barbara, a lot of people smoke weed, but it's rare to hear about anyone doing heroin or meth.
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