No lie: 2 friends of mine moved to Vermont to get married. I think it's a decent place to raise a family, but not great if you're an extrovert and need more population density.

This is what happens when the people of an entire state decide to sit back and do nothing for each other, preferring to depend on other jurisdictions for every critical service.

Why is it that in families where the child is neurodivergent, or has a disability, the father often bails?

This is the responsibility of the mother and father. Both should be held accountable.

This needs to be the highest upvoted comment.

I'd argue that Central Asian immigrants are still in more danger in Russia than someone from Western Europe, or a European American.

Considering that it's America, only the African, Asian, and Latin American spies will face charges, along with ordinary Africans, Asians, and Latin Americans who did nothing wrong and were loyal to the United States.

And Russian and other European spies will face almost no consequences.

And the ones that do exist suck.

It doesn't matter if it's rheumatology, gastroenterology, or immunology. The most competent specialists, who can give accurate diagnoses, live in 6 cities and almost nowhere else.

I understand why some people have non-moral objections to strip clubs and legal marijuana shops. They lower the valuation of the residential housing nearby.

For example, some towns have or had in recent history a ban on liquor stores and/or fast food restaurants. There's nothing morally wrong with alcohol, marijuana, strippers, tobacco, lottery tickets, fast food, or NASCAR race tracks, but having these things in your town does bring down housing valuation, which is a problem for the upper and upper middle classes.

Health resources in general are craptastic in New Hampshire. Both mental and physical.

My friend's father shouldn't have to drive to another state just because he has a relatively uncommon disease and the specialists in NH suck.

New Hampshire needs to stand on its own feet and provide health services and jobs for its own people.

Is it more Rutland or Bennington?

I dunno. Vermont as a whole is majority atheist but Essex county is full of fat fundie Christians on welfare who constantly accuse LGBT Black Hispanic people of being on welfare.

Legit, this is only going to make affluent New Hampshirite women even more dependent on Massachusetts than before. Educated, rich New Hampshirite women already go to Massachusetts for luxury shopping, and other luxury services. Now they will also go to Massachusetts for haircuts, eyebrow microblading, eyebrow plucking, pubic hair removal, and to get their nails done.

There are so many infections that stem from low quality nail salons with shady hygienic practices.

Cosmetology done poorly can give you nail fungus, eye infections, accidental cuts on your skin, etc. I've heard of people who got 2nd degree burns because they got poorly done hair removal in Thailand.

I wouldn't go to a low end hair salon anyways.

Eliminating a licence requirement is only going to make affluent New Hampshirite women go to Massachusetts to find a top-of-the-industry hair stylist.

Just like how affluent New Hampshirites already go to Massachusetts for luxury shopping, luxury services, and rare disease doctors.

Eliminating cosmetology licences is just going to make affluent New Hampshirite women go to Massachusetts to get top quality haircuts.

I feel like most racists and homophobes are incurable.

At least in Canada, income is negatively associated with domestic violence. Poor abusive people physically abuse their families. Rich abusive people verbally abuse their underlings at work. Maybe it's different in the United States.

For the same reason the min wage is still $7.25 and you can't get good specialists for rare diseases here.

New Hampshire is like a father who does no childcare because he knows the mother will do it.

Many New Hampshirites don't care because they can get higher paying jobs, legal marijuana, and apppointments with rare disease doctors in nearby places.

The internet is skewed towards introverts, and anime skews introverted.

What's interesting is that introverts from Western nations prefer even live action Japanese films. Why do Western introverts like Japan, not just anime, but food, culture, language, live action film, music, clothing, history, and social values?

I mean, by that time people may have developed those suits that recycle the water in your body so you only lose a few ml per day if you're out in the desert...

I don't think high schoolers should have after school jobs. Summer internships are good, but no minor should have to work during the school year.

It's not a coincidence that the demographic of kids in America who do the least house chores and have the lowest rate of working a paid part time job also have the highest graduation rate and highest rate of eventual university completion.

If MA pushes high school start times back to 9am, the kids would get so much smarter that they would make Finnish and Singaporean teens look dumb in comparison. Which would only fuel the egoism of MA. The state's collective ego would balloon to an unstable size, upon which it would collapse under its own weight, thereby creating a massive black hole.

Poor people love to blame the upper middle class and lower upper class, when it's really the billionaire investor class that is doing this shit.

40 years ago dentists from Boston were also buying summer homes in Vermont but they could typically afford one per family. The billionaire investor class buys homes to speculate in the hundreds/thousands.

Ding ding ding.

People love to blame rich foreigners buying a vacation house, or an upper middle class Bostonian buying a single summer home, but the real culprit are billion dollar financial firms buying hundreds, if not thousands of houses for speculation.

Dr. Jane Everywoman from Boston who makes $200k a year as a pediatrician isn't the enemy.

Burlington definitely has suburbs: Colchester, Winooski, Shelburne, Charlotte, Williston, etc.

Burlington needs to densify and add more mid-rise buildings to accomodate working class people.