No problem, left the south myself and haven't looked back. You'll run into a good number of southerners up here.

OP should also look at the communities around The Clark and MassMoca like N Adams.

Windham and Windsor Counties are fine and have plenty of studios hidden away. Pay attention to Open Studio tours in the region https://www.vermontcrafts.com/ Keep in mind that a house the is condemned and literally falling in a river will fetch over 100k up here though, and Taxes are exponentially higher than the south. Over 6k for my 200k house, and I live in a town with a lower tax rate!

I'm in the Green Mountain Power Power wall program and have a redundant propane generator for if the power doesn't come back right away. Haven't had a moment's outage since they were installed. https://greenmountainpower.com/rebates-programs/home-energy-storage/powerwall/

Is it the municipal that they don't pay then? The point regardless is if they paid a full tax bill then they might not be able to afford all the properties they are buying.

I prefer the shitposts to the tourist photos and questions to be honest.

Start making second home owners pay for education taxes on their property tax bill. This will fix a couple of issues.

There is also Bangkok Asian Market and Asian Super Store nearby.

Felt the same coming from GA. VT is so much like places in the South except for the lack of diversity, so instead of racism (which there still is a lot of) the classism is more apparent. Generally I think the people that think that VT isn't like the South or vice versa just haven't traveled enough. N Ga and parts of SC and NC are indistinguishable from here.

The only good thing about them where I came from was the open dumpsters and willingness to take "any" donations. Affordable waste mitigation is one of the only things I miss from living in other places compared to here.

Here's their site for anyone interested https://www.aladdinstowevt.com/

Sadly Boston and Worcester are probably your closest in the states. Otherwise try Montreal.

Not strenuous at all, but if you're looking for the green and good smells the trails around King Arthur Flour are nice.

It's been over a month in Windham Co., but also only takes a couple days for seasonal depression to kick in.

Vermont has been repeatedly reported as the only climate -safe state in the lower 48 for years and climate refugees have been slowly relocating well before COVID. It would be nice if we could all get along, but just like everywhere else, people hate newcomers and view them as interlopers.

You have to buy in-state to qualify for the EV incentives

Ableist

Already called with 0% reporting 🤣🤣🤣

New Haven has been quicker to get to than Boston in my experience

In Georgia I was called a Yankee for being born in Atlanta. Folks everywhere are weird.

You can remove signs in the right of way, at least according to my town administrator.

I'm a GA transplant and two things to note that are different from everywhere else in the country: they don't have entrapment laws here so cops can hide in bushes and they also don't have a 10mph buffer so you can get pulled over for being 1mph over. It took me awhile to slow down, but it's better than losing your license.

Birkenstock Clogs and Wool Socks FTW