Jerry_Williams69

Jerry_Williams69 t1_j4gbpvm wrote

Reply to moving to a rec cannabis state by ShamanLifestyle

I would say Ann Arbor, MI, but check out the Huron River PFAS/hexavalent chrome situation and the dioxane plumes. The area is great for families, education, and cannabis, but the pollution is severe and is why my family moved to Vermont from Ann Arbor. Ann Arbor and Burlington are really similar cities. Burlington has its own demons though. The opioid epidemic is much worse in the NE than SE MI. The secret is out on Vermont too. So many people moving here that housing is very scarce. Vermont's recreational cannabis industry is just getting started tho. Might be cool to ride the tide.

Side note, the west side of Michigan's Lower Peninsula, including Grand Rapids, is known as the Bible Belt of the North. Take that for what it is worth. Lots of pollution over there too.

If you can find a job, Traverse City, MI would be a great place to live. I think it's equivalent in Vermont would be Stowe.

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Jerry_Williams69 t1_j3wojyl wrote

Reply to comment by -_Stove_- in Why doesn’t Vermont bury its power lines? by tcchen

I'm originally from the Midwest. It is not uncommon for there to be no above ground power lines in newer communities there. In the Midwest, urban sprawl is lead by horizontal drilling operations. The lines are in the ground before houses, businesses, schools, etc. are laid out. If it were cost prohibitive in the region, the stingy politicians would squash it.

The Midwest might have billboards, but it does not have huge bundles of above ground power lines like the NE does (except in the older parts). The reason I've heard again and again is that the NE's abundant ledge makes it really hard to run long horizontal drilling operations. You can translate that to expensive if you want. I'm sure it could be done with enough time and funding.

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