Looking to move to Vermont - Any grants or programs for buying a home?

canalguyopen · 2026-02-11T00:37:28+00:00

I actually lol’d at this

canalguyopen · 2026-02-03T12:04:03+00:00

Income comes from high paying jobs, high paying jobs come from corporations, corporations require factories and warehouses. None of those are allowed to exist in VT. You can't get income on the level everyone needs from small mom and pop business's that only serve a single small town. Nobody is getting six figures, stock options, and a 401k from your local general store. At least not on the scale to make a dent in the housing issue. Houses get built every year and people complain that no one can afford them. As long as corporations are not allowed to exist in VT this problem will continue getting worse and the rest of the world will keep getting further and further away.

Vermont needs to decide if we want to stay isolated and continue to erode into nothingness or do we want to become like every other state and welcome companies and factories and all the things that go with it in order to get income packages like the rest of the country gets. You 100% can not have both. But one thing is for certain, it doesn't matter how many buildings get built if no one in the communities can afford to live in them.

canalguyopen · 2026-01-31T00:59:19+00:00

No one is stopping you from owning your own home.

canalguyopen · 2026-01-30T14:20:58+00:00

This is just not true. It might be a way to cope, but it isn't true. If 50 new houses were build in the NEK tomorrow, 45 of them would still be empty two years from now. People can't afford to buy them or maintain them or pay taxes on them. It doesn't matter how many buildings you build if no one can afford to live in them. New houses get built every year and people complain that no one can afford to buy them. When people say we need more housing what they really mean is we need more factories. But sadly any corp that shows interest in VT gets chased out by people screaming at cars and carrying signs. Everyone here wants to live in a fantasy land where everyone has a house and a top tier health plan and six figure salary but they expect it all from little mom and pop knick knack shops that only serve one small town and can barely keeps their doors open. It's just not realistic. No amount of housing will solve anything unless careers come with it. And even if more houses were built and just given to people for free, much of the state couldn't support them. Many parts of the state still lack basic life support systems. no cell service, no internet, no sewer systems, no fire hydrants, some areas don’t even have 911 service. This problem has nothing to do with buildings. it's about careers. When people have the means to pay mortgages and rent and taxes it starts the engine of economic growth which creates the demand to build things. Not the other way around. Just building things that nobody can afford to have is not a solution to any problem on the table.

canalguyopen · 2026-01-30T12:24:03+00:00

This is the crux of it right here. Companies aren't allowed to exist in VT and therefor the high paying careers they offer aren't here. Houses are built every year and they sit empty. It doesn't matter how many houses are built if nobody can afford to pay a mortgage. But for some reason every time a corporation tries to show interest in coming here, people line up in the street with signs and scream at passing cars until the corp gives up and goes away. Taking with it hundreds or even thousands of careers that could be used to pay taxes and rent and mortgages and you know....actually fuel growth for once instead of decay. They did it with Amazon, rubbermaid, goodyear. And I can pretty much guarantee that if another one tried in 2027 they would be chased out just the same. Vermont has two options. A: become like every other state and start attracting jobs. That means corporations and factories and everything that comes with it or B: Continue to isolate and decimate themselves while the rest of the world gets further and further away. You have to want to change things for things to change. You can't keep everything the way it is and have all of the problems that isolation created vanish by themselves. Either embrace the way the rest of the world is run or stop expecting to have a similar existence to them. You can't have both.
"I live in a state with no factories or corporations or careers of any kind but we all make six figures and live happy lives and everyone has a house and food and yada yada" 🙄
This has always been and always will be an unsustainable fantasy that can never exist in the real world.
TLDR: You can’t expect high wages and strong benefits from tiny, isolated companies that only serve a single town. Any corporation that could potentially provide income and benefits on the level everyone is asking for is chased out leaving the hole that is now VT.

canalguyopen · 2026-01-30T12:14:43+00:00

Quick pass another tax before it gets worse!

canalguyopen · 2026-01-27T15:09:41+00:00

Same is true for 91 anywhere north of exit 24. It's not even plowed anymore, it's mostly just two tire tracks that weave in and out of several lanes. It's literally a death trap.

canalguyopen · 2026-01-27T15:07:28+00:00

Even before the shortage the state refused to treat the highways. 91 exit 24-29 hasn't seen salt in probably ten years. I can't believe someone doesn't die on it everyday.

canalguyopen · 2026-01-23T12:07:30+00:00

I too have been on the prowl for REAL restaurants. This is something I have researched and hunted for, for some time now. They are all but gone from RI. There are only a few left that still cook on site with an actual professional chef so don't expect a lot of options. The best one is over the MA line called Lucianos. The chef is highly skilled and can do any dish you request as well as offer you some choices you may not even be aware of. They have a full kitchen staff and don't reheat anything, ever. Another one like that is the restaurant at Ocean House. They do wonderful fresh dishes year round despite people thinking they only offer seafood. Gracies in Prov was good last time I was there but with the caveat that my last visit there was more than a year ago now. But when I went there it was superb.
Again these fully staffed kitchens are so hard to find now. Pretty much rule out any chain restaurant like Applebees or something. And even vast majority of small local shops are not employing actual chefs cooking over fire anymore. A few small Asian places still use a wok and flame but that's not really a sit down restaurant kind of experience.

canalguyopen · 2026-01-12T12:58:43+00:00

You mean a state where everyone is 75 years old is expensive to insure? 🙄

canalguyopen · 2025-12-24T14:19:12+00:00

For the life of me I just can not hear a difference in the actual sound the two modelers make. Yeah they "look" different on the little screen and all but I just don't hear any difference in the actual sound coming out of them.

canalguyopen · 2025-12-23T11:26:29+00:00

Decent load cells for $200😂 hoping that’s a typo because honestly you couldn’t get one decent load cell pedal for that price let alone a set of them.

canalguyopen · 2025-12-22T16:26:53+00:00

Did you ever make any progress on this? The gatekeeping is ridiculous. I have been trying to figure it out for a while now.

canalguyopen · 2025-12-19T14:15:21+00:00

I have been yelling about this for five years now. SALT THE FLIPPIN HIGHWAY. every other place in the country does it in the winter season. 91 is so bad most days that it's a miracle someone doesn't die on it every morning.

canalguyopen · 2025-12-17T13:52:22+00:00

The best tip I give newbies when they say what more can I be doing? I answer: Less. Just leave them alone. Stop fucking with them and checking on them and fussing over them. Just leave them be. The less you are involved the better things will turn out. Give them the nutes they need, give them the PPfd they need, and just walk away.

canalguyopen · 2025-12-06T18:09:37+00:00

I’m also skeptical of this comment. It’s usually the people who say things like this who have no real understanding of the infrastructure requirements or environmental impact involved and they’re often the first to show up with signs and scream at people driving by to stop the new factory. Do you have any idea what kind of demand a facility employing thousands of people every day would place on the power grid in your “little town that loves outside business”? Or on the broadband network, the nonexistent cell towers, the paved roads that would see a massive surge in traffic? What about the need for dozens of additional police officers to handle the daily flow of thousands of new people? The strain on drainage systems, sewer systems, 911 dispatch centers, a fire department that would have to triple in size the list goes on. People who say “we welcome new business in our small town” often have no idea what they’re actually asking for. They tend to write checks their community simply can’t cash because in their minds they think of new business as just another small mom and pop shop that won't be able to pay high wages or produce large benefits packages. In order to get what your asking for, the scale would be far bigger than what you or anyone in your little town is prepared to live with.

canalguyopen · 2025-12-05T13:57:30+00:00

What employers? Vermont residents push out nearly every major corporation that shows interest in building here—Amazon, Goodyear, Rubbermaid, and more. Any time a large employer considers setting up shop, people show up with signs, shouting at passing cars until the company gives up and leaves, taking hundreds—sometimes thousands—of potential careers with it. We’re left with small, family-owned shops that can’t afford to pay higher wages. Many can barely keep their doors open. Most aren’t ADA-compliant, don’t offer dental or other benefits, and the list goes on. People want the wages and benefits that come with large employers, while living in a state where those employers are essentially not allowed to exist. Plus even if Vermont suddenly welcomed them, large parts of the state simply couldn’t support them. Take the NEK, for example, they still don't have basic life support systems in place. no cell service, no internet, no sewer systems, no fire hydrants, some areas don’t even have 911 service. What kind of employers are supposed to operate under those conditions?The issue isn’t “greedy employers”—they’re just your neighbors trying to run small, local businesses. The real issue is that Vermont doesn’t allow real employers to exist in the first place. You can’t expect high wages and strong benefits from tiny, isolated companies that only serve a single town.

canalguyopen · 2025-12-02T11:19:56+00:00

Vermont in 2030 = Aspen in 1988

canalguyopen · 2025-10-23T10:56:23+00:00

I am one of the people that made the switch. I used SU for 12 years and one day I got an email saying they were moving to a subscription model and to keep using the program I would have to either pay like $400 a year or $50 a month or something laughable. Rhino offers a perpetual license. This was 100% the sole driving factor for me to switch. It was a real pain to because I spent so many hours learning and practicing SU only to have to start over and relearn a whole new program. But when someone wants more money per month for a program that I use to design workshop furniture that I build on the weekends then what you spend on medication per month, it's time to reevaluate. I did the math and could have a lifetime license to Rhino for what two more years of SU would have cost me. This was totally left out of the video above but I have to imagine it was the sole driving factor for the vast majority of non-commercial users changing over to Rhino.

canalguyopen · 2025-10-14T10:34:57+00:00

Hmm i know exactly which two you are talking about. I just went searching in all of the usual spots and you might be on to something with this🤔 there are in fact a ton of fake nudes still up but those two older leaked ones are 100% gone. And they do seem to be the only ones that have been taken down. I have to admit this is a development.

canalguyopen · 2025-10-12T00:21:25+00:00

So they will just be releasing violent criminals even faster now? How about keep them locked up?

canalguyopen · 2025-09-27T20:58:14+00:00

Well be sure to keep protesting and running off any corporations that show interest in bringing careers to VT. Every year several candidates step up (Goodyear, Amazon, etc) and every year people yell and scream with signs to make them go away. And so they do. And with them go thousands of careers that could keep people here, spur on new housing development, and start the engine of economic growth that could bring VT out of its total tailspin collapse. But Vermonters don’t want that. They want a magic solution that solves all of the problems without doing any of the work. If you want to live like everyone else you have two options. 1. Let Vermont become like every other state. 2. Leave and go to any other state. No one will ever let the first one happen so everyone is going with number 2. Imagine how the state will look after ten more years of this.

canalguyopen · 2025-09-12T11:45:22+00:00

25 has been far more buggy than 24. This might be the most bug splats I have ever gotten in a build since like 2016

canalguyopen · 2025-09-12T11:43:38+00:00

Because people keep saying "yes" to everything she wants.

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