Vermont is a rogue part of NY!

Word.

Love Starlink and it’s super easy to run off the generator when the power is out.

Each ticket costs $10. If four people buy tickets and one wins, that person gets $20 and the other $20 goes to the scholarship fund, but if 10 people buy tickets, the winner gets $50 and the fund gets $50. So 50% of the money goes to the winner, and the other 50% goes to the rotary scholarship fund.

I've checked T-Mobile's coverage map for years. What area do you live in? The coverage map shows T-Mobile covers Vermont and most of Vermont says hell no! We had a guest get lost and in tears because the directions to our house were in texts to her T-Mobile phone which of course didn't work anywhere.

The winner gets 50% of total prize pool and the other 50% goes to the stowe rotary scholarship fund

No by all means ask! I lived in NH for 21 years.

Keene is way out there. Not close to anywhere and not anything to really do. Not my cup of tea but is for some.

I’d look more around the southern lakes region. Plymouth and Tilton if you don’t need access to Boston. More outside of concord or Manchester if you do need easier access to Boston. Avoid Rochester and Manchester for housing like the plague.

If you have good remote or healthcare jobs I’d look in or north of the lakes region. Cheaper housing and more rural lifestyles.

I mean it honestly depends on where you’re thinking, I live in super northern vermont like an hour from Montreal but I also live in New Hampshire during th summer and everyone is very kind and nice but places like burlington vermont and Manchester New Hampshire are both different from small little towns like the ones I live in. I love New Hampshire more but I’m biased since all my family lives there

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Its extremely expensive, with little job diversity and little availability for housing. “Beauty comes at a price” has always been the way Ive explained Vermont. There’s a reason a lot of people only come here a couple weeks a year lol.

Lake St. Catherine is a popular one, and quite nice. That said there are a lot of reservoirs that also have beaches, like Wrightsville or Waterbury.

Thanks for your honesty! Just monitoring this feed is having us reconsider NH more seriously due to the job and housing concerns. In your opinion, is there much difference in the people and culture between VT and NH?

Yes there is one hardware set. They update it periodically but it does the same thing.

Yup Boston

Thanks so much for your honest take. We don't have ties other than a love of the land and Vermont's closeness to the upper Northeast. We want to establish community and make friends, but not being a native probably sets us back, especially if one of us has to work remotely to live there. Every other post in this thread mentions insane housing costs and scarcity, and we are now considering NH much more seriously. The states are so small, I'd almost rather visit VT every weekend and skip across the border than surrender my savings account to the VT renting situation.

Do you recommend any areas in southern NH? We were looking at Keene and Concord. I'll probably get banished for asking.

It's a 50/50 raffle so it all depends on the number of entries

I’m in the sticks and Starlink is a life changer. No issues whatsoever!

Right - but the incomes support that in NH. 2019 median income in Portsmouth was $83,923, and $51,394 in Burlington. THAT is the disparity & the issue w/ VT

VT has the lowest rate in the country of residents who can afford the median home, at 16%. Next lowest is CT at 21%. There’s some issue here

We are liking more and more the areas of VT that border NH, it seems like NH has a lot going for it as well. I'm glad you mentioned energy costs, I didn't even have a guess to go off of, and that number is quite high. A lot of people in this do seem bitter and negative, but I'd rather the rude honesty to shake the romanticism I think lots of people have for Vermont who have no idea of the realities that you mentioned. This last 24 hours of following up on this post have my husband and I doing lots more math and hard thinking.

You sound like a fun person.

The state figured out another way to reach into your pocket and lower the quality of a good on the market place no friggin way 😂 y’all got corruption to testing labs & and a co-opted advocacy group that asks the state to get more involved, sounds nightmarish to me.

Yeah from the idiots that move here and them try to keep it “pristine” at the expense of long-time residents. We need industry and housing like any other state. I’m glad there are people actually trying to solve these problems instead of pushing the anti-industry narrative on reddit.

They still haven’t legalized weed unlike the other NE states. Can’t be that free lol.

I appreciate the info! Is the job you got remote, or local? I would likely be working remotely, so we'd have to be somewhere with internet, which is coincidentally where the rent is insanely high and housing is hard to find. My husband is looking for a job in either furniture making or timber framing. He's not having the best of luck after looking the past 6 months. We could dip into savings, but when rent is nuts, it really pushes off the house buying process. The culture is really where our hearts are at, and maybe it would be worth a tighter living.

Don’t think it’s the housing market, Portsmouth NH median home cost is 45% higher than Burlington VT. Supply/Demand pricing suggests the housing costs are greater in NH