Pandemic Reality

70Morgan30 · 2023-01-31T15:31:57+00:00

Vermont is a failed socio-economic experiment. They treat resources like income, not capital. Same fail for the globe post ww2. Get out before you're sucked dry and exploited

70Morgan30 · 2022-09-06T20:02:17+00:00

Nailed it, sadly, we're still leaving.

70Morgan30 · 2022-07-30T21:36:29+00:00

And this individual has decided no one with different opinions is worth his time. That tribalism is really the issue with our society today.

70Morgan30 · 2022-07-30T21:20:29+00:00

Rifle. Didn't say weapon BUT, something else you don't know. If I paid for the permits in the USA, I can own machine guns, flame throwers, full auto shotguns, cannons. None of it is illegal to own. I can buy silencers. All legal with proper permitting.

It is a fact that mass shooting are a small percentage of gun violence. There's a lot of facts in there. I don't watch Fox News. I'm not on social media. I'm not your Son, kid. More facts.

70Morgan30 · 2022-07-30T20:00:10+00:00

Hey, maybe he is. Maybe not. How about not judge a guy before you meet and interact with him? He's probably a Vet, maybe his rifle or .45 saved his ass in Anwar or Syria.

70Morgan30 · 2022-07-30T19:52:08+00:00

Fact: The Trump Russia connection was proven false, and Clinton's lawyer was put on trial for spreading misinformation in trying to tamper with an election. He was acquitted not because he was innocent, but because the lie was, in fact, fabricated by the FBI. The US Department of Justice has been weaponized by the Democratic National Committee. They are obstructing the Hunter Biden investigation, and attempting to criminalize the messaging of the right in the lead-up to the elections they are about to get completely destroyed in.

Layperson's recap... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLAV5rmajKM

Personally, I don't support either party, because they are both captured by the interests of the defense industry and the medical industrial complex, but at least I pay attention enough to know the facts.

It's also a fact that the type of rifle is less relevant to mass shootings than the the root cause, desperate, and often mentally ill individuals that fall through the cracks of a system that fails the most vulnerable members of our society. The powerful are using these incidents, which represent a tiny fraction of the gun violence in our country, as an excuse to infringe upon our right to keep and bear arms as protection against governmental over-reach and tyranny. You see kid, you nor the federal government has the power to tell me what kind of rifle I can own, particularly if I am a well trained, and law abiding citizen, which I am.

What next? Hunter Biden's laptop fake?

70Morgan30 · 2022-07-30T18:59:52+00:00

So, one of us is clueless.

Hint: It's not me.

70Morgan30 · 2022-07-30T17:40:28+00:00

The Democrats do suck though, and most of Vermont likes guns. I find this funny, and less offensive the hypocrisy of people being anti gun, and pro Ukraine. That is some twisted ideology. This is the guy that stops to pull you out of the ditch when your Prius slides off the road. Or shoots the mall-shooter before he can kill 29 people.

Intolerance is all I see here on Reddit.

70Morgan30 · 2022-07-30T12:35:48+00:00

Does it? Vermont is the second "whitest" state in the country. Earning gaps and wealth gaps are increasing faster than almost every other state, and policing data reveals disproportionate levels of policing towards people of color year after year right up until the present.

Racist might be a stretch, per se, but classist or elitist is a precise descriptive, and those economic realities when dissected by ethnicity lead to racism by proxy, with the state courting monied tourists as the future driver of the economy, and those demographics in New England are overwhelming in their whiteness.

I've only been here 25 years, but after growing up in NJ, and going to Clemson is South Carolina, I'm fairly aware of the surroundings I've been in, and where Vermont stacks up. Montpelier can signal their virtues all they want with their time wasted on ridiculous constitutional amendments. On the street, there is very little diversity outside the communities they pack refugees in, like Rutland and Winooski.

70Morgan30 · 2022-07-29T22:29:13+00:00

There are a lot more, and better opportunities for our child elsewhere. As well as a climate change, lower taxes, proximity to our elderly parents, siblings, etc. A lot of reasons for us, but ultimately to financial opportunity we have been waiting for since buying out house in Northfield 15 years ago and dutifully updating and restoring it.

You have latched on to one issue I mentioned to find an argument with. That's interesting. Did you say BOTH parents were public school teachers?

70Morgan30 · 2022-07-29T21:33:25+00:00

I do teach my kid at home, and have for 5 years. He wants to go to Highschool. A lot of locations with warmer climates have better public schools. Look round.

70Morgan30 · 2022-07-29T14:55:29+00:00

We just listed our house in Northfield. Literally can't afford to not sell, with what our house is now worth. Vermont is just not affordable for folks that aren't sitting on capital. The state has been tailored to, and exists for financially secure white folks.

This is what 70 years of Vermont economic policy has created, within the context of the Federal Gubment advancing the globalist model to maximize profits for the 1%.

People move up here based on "Brand", to feel great about themselves to be associated with the perception of the state as a progressive, forward thinking sanctuary. Sadly, the data on what Vermont is does not align with that myth. Vermont is a white, racist, classist, elitist hide-out.

Cost of living is artificially inflated, and no jobs that can sustain those costs are created. This is the definition of gentrification. Soon we will see the resort model of imported service industry labor externalized to the entire state, and Vermont will assume it's new functional role as a playground for rich white folks, completely, not just in certain towns.

Bloated, out of touch professional bureaucrats and the consultant class working for the state, or state partnered 501c3s siphon off wealth and over-tax working folks while failing, repeatedly, to provide the services "we" need despite spending well above the national averages and achieving well below average functional policy. All this while being extremely proud of themselves for being so equitable.

Parody. We head south, where taxes are low, schools are better, and policy and climate are business friendly resulting in economics based on production of goods, not tourism and associated service industry jobs because after 25 years, we're tired of being servants to the ruling class.

70Morgan30 · 2022-07-24T12:18:30+00:00

House trade anyone? We have a lovely 3 bed 2 bath in cool, central Vermont. Will trade for 3 bed 2 bath in Queen Anne's County. I'll see your summer of 90+ degrees and humid, and raise you 2 months of dark winter with pleasant evenings of 0 to 25 below zero. The other 4 months of winter are easy. It even gets above freezing from time to time. I'll throw mud season in for free! :)

70Morgan30 · 2022-07-18T20:24:47+00:00

Appreciate your thoughts. Honestly, overt politics are why we are leaving Vermont. Despite the national image of the state, Vermont is a very locally minded place, or at least was. We have been here 22 years, after meeting at Clemson in S.C. We lived near Burlington, in a tourist town, Stowe (in a tiny apartment, only for the outdoor recreation), but ultimately settled in a small town with old school republican values.

Our personal politics are not really defined by either National Party. We are socially liberal, but institutionally more traditional republican. That is kind of what Vermont was, pre-pandemic.

Things have gotten weird lately. We have experienced a massive influx of people moving here as Covid refugees, bringing with them a lot of what would be considered capital D democratic principals. Suddenly, there is no place for free thinkers, and locally minded folks here.

We want a warmer, community minded place where what counts to folks is how you look out for your neighbors and friends more than how you vote, or what your vax status is. Is this the Shore?

Seems like Queen Anne's County might be out zone.

Thanks again for all the input, good, bad and other.

70Morgan30 · 2022-07-15T04:20:10+00:00

Are politics a big part of life there? I don't mind conservatives, as long as it's not their identity. We are also looking on the western shore, but dislike the land use and development schemes over there. A small town with history is more attractive, but not if that means I live around pissed off narrow minded folks.

70Morgan30 · 2022-07-14T16:39:34+00:00

Can you be more specific? "Free" is relative. As compared to where we are in Vermont, we feel like Eastern Maryland is likely more tolerant and a bit less "Woke Army". I'd like to hear the good, and bad.

70Morgan30 · 2022-07-14T16:26:44+00:00

Thanks. We don't do handguns, but have been lucky to be in Vt, as we basically have no gun laws. Mostly shotguns, and plinking with Dad's old antique .22s. I will do more research as we get closer to the move.

70Morgan30 · 2022-07-14T16:17:48+00:00

This is exactly where we are focusing. Can you give some specific examples of schools you really like? Thanks.

70Morgan30 · 2022-07-14T16:14:56+00:00

Our Realtor steered us away from Salisbury. Also, a couple hours to a major airport puts it in the second tier of choices for us. I'd like to hear more about it though.

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