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smokeythemechanic t1_jeete74 wrote

Considering the number of people that don't want to work that are here but want to live here, it seems like an impasse to me. I'm gonna work till the day I die but I'm also able to afford to live here because I work

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Necessary_Cat_4801 t1_jef0nwd wrote

I think there are a lot of people here with family money, but that isn't new. The people moving here now are working, they're working from home making in an hour what Vermonters make in a week. The workforce within the state is dead, the state will be unable to provide basic services in the very near future.

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smokeythemechanic t1_jef2yaj wrote

The "trustafarian" from MA, MD, DE, NJ, CT, NYC, CO, and CA have replaced almost everyone of my generation that left here at 18.... They don't work, still have disposable income, and can buy rental houses here to have some sort of income. Literally I know hundreds of these people as I fix their cars.

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ojhatsman t1_jeez10w wrote

Covid colonists just moving up here cuz it’s pretty, it’d be nice if they had a work ethic but it’s likely they’re all rich so they won’t have one

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smokeythemechanic t1_jef1dyc wrote

That's part of it, we also have a giant homeless population due to the miro open invitation to the sears lane experiment, where growing up here we never had hundreds of homeless people at any given point in the year, and now all of a sudden there are people cooking meth across from an elementary school in a multi level homeless shack....

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