I've found Vermont to be very accepting of gays and lesbians. We had our "Take Back Vermont" moment. Some of the more rural in flavor are still mumbling about that, but they're the minority. I suspect you and your kids would be very happy here. Part of the reason housing is so expensive, so I've read, is that Vermont has turned into a haven for those like you. Edit: There was initially a considerably influx from suburbanites fleeing Covid. There's no other state I'd want to live in. It's here or northern Europe for me.

Mainly, we wear day glow orange hats and the like. I fully support hunting and hunters. I invite them to hunt on my back forty, which is overpopulated with tick carrying deer. For my wife, wearing day glow orange has turned into somewhat of a Vermont fashion statement...

How old is he? Would he consider apprenticing/pivoting to electrical work? There's a real demand for electricians (with all the green tech being installed in Vermont). I still subcontract with an energy company and their in-house electrician was making beaucoup de $$$ installing solar panels and heat pumps. I doubt there's much to be made in furniture making. I had a friend who wanted to build and sell custom furniture, but there was little to no demand. He moved to California but didn't fare much better, so maybe the problem was his furniture? It's possible to get by as a carpenter, with a working spouse, but the real money is in contracting with a crew. I would NOT recommend Shackleton.

The are a couple furniture outfits in my area. I once inquired about getting a job at Shackleton Furniture in Bridgewater Vermont. What I noticed is that it was either very young men or very old men working there. The young men were there for woodworking training and income. The old men were there because they didn't need money and were otherwise bored with their lives. Building furniture for Shackletongave them a place to woodwork. The pay (early aughts) was something like 12 dollars an hour and you only got two days off a year. Seriously. The other furniture maker around here is Pompanoosic Mills. They're more of an assembly line furniture maker but they make decent and stylish furniture. Their pay is better but not great. If your husband has timber framing experience, there's demand for that. I'm a builder myself (or was before I turned to writing) and know a couple timber framing outfits. There's a real demand for timber framing in the area (Hanover/Norwich) because there's lots of money here. and high end building. You're not going to see timber framing jobs being advertised though. It's word of mouth. Also, check out Vermod:

https://vermodhomes.com/

They're in WRJ and are currently looking for carpenters. That would be a good place to simply get your foot in the door and start asking around. And if you're a graphic designer with some web design skills, a family friend of mine has been working at a web-design company in Lebanon with a graphic design background. With your background and your husband's background, this area could be promising.

You're asking these questions on Reddit? Just take what people say here with a block of salt. On any given thread, if there's a side to be taken, half the commenters are always bitching and complaining about the state. Vermont has issues, and there are cheaper places to live, but there's a reason some places are cheaper.

If you have the right resumé and aren't living paycheck to paycheck, Vermont can be a beautiful place to live. I can understand why you're drooling. It's a very rural state though, and that limits the kind of employment available, as well as housing. If you were moving to Boston, you would have space to improvise. Moving to Vermont though, have a plan, a place to stay and a job. There are lots of opportunities here, especially if you or your husband are in a trade.

> We definitely don't have the crazy evangelical Republicans here that much of the country has.

In Orange County we had our own batshit crazy Republican run for the legislature (won't do the favor of naming him) who is a self-appointed pastor and thinks women aren't designed to enjoy sex as much as men (among other batshit crazy opinions)—equal to any Republican anywhere in the US.

Right, but the issue isn't necessarily how much snowfall we've gotten, but how long it sticks around. Fat good a foot of snow does us if it melts the next day (which is exactly what happened earlier last month). In the source you provided, I don't notice anything pertaining to that. This is the first winter I can remember when nearly all our snow had melted by mid-January.

Back when cars could freely roam the broad and concrete plains of Church Street! Pity the poor stores whose business suffered when automobiles were banned from their storefronts! Nay! Let this be an example to all cities who would pick the pedestrian over the automobile and Socialism over Capitalism!

As far as fences go, forget about the frost. It's irrelevant. Just dig a hole deep enough to keep your post from tipping over.

This is how Vermont terrorists do it. A hay truck. Wait till you get a load of our exploding flannel underwear and our jugs of Molotov Maple Syrup.

Why people downvote comments like these is a mystery to me.

FYI, this is in relation to an "arrestee", but the takeaway is that "immediate control" refers to the area "within an individual's reach" : "In criminal law, immediate control refers to an area within an arrestee’s reach. A police officer may conduct a warrant less search of the area to ensure the safety of the officer and also to prevent the arrestee from destroying evidence. The term also includes the arrestee’s person and the area from within which s/he might gain possession of a weapon or destructible evidence. [United States v. Beltran-Palafox, 2010 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 54541 (D. Kan. June 3, 2010)]."

If you look up the meaning of "immediate control", in its legal sense, it means pillows and bedside tables are okay. Objecting to the Bill because you think it's "micromanaging" is legitimate, but objecting because you think it means nobody can have a gun for self-protection is just a straw man fever dream. I doubt it would survive the second amendment were that the intent. If that is the intent, then the law should be struck down.

Where does the bill say you can't keep a handgun under your pillow? The actual language of the bill is:

" when a firearm is not in a person’s immediate possession or control, the firearm must be properly secured in such a way to render it inoperable by any person other than the owner or other lawfully authorized user and stored separately from ammunition..."

"Immediate control" means you can still keep your firearm under your mattress or pillow.

Motive is motive. Courts deal with it every day.

Second, the bill doesn't infringe on your right to procure or own guns in any way. It proposers that gun owners store their weapons responsibly. If you want to whine about that, then whine, but it's no different than any other government safety requirements. Get over it.

//How can a court or jury confidently identify if a crime is hate motivated?//

Establishing motive is part and parcel of any number of criminal prosecutions. This isn't some insoluble mystery that nobody has ever dealt with before.

//This is a ridiculous package of anti-common sense laws...//

Requiring owners of deadly weaponry to handle them in a well-regulated way is common sense and the language of the 2nd Amendment.

I could be wrong, but the way the information above is being given, it does lead one to believe that the "duty to run away" applies to ones house at 2AM. Not sure that's true though. I think bullet three would only apply to confrontations outside ones home, otherwise the information above would contradict itself. The second bullet point circumscribes but still recongizes the justifiable use of force in ones own home.

For what it's worth, and for informational purposes, you might look into the Strafford area. They still have their own Elementary School, it's close to Dartmouth (offering a variety of cultural advantages), and you have school choice. You could send your kids to Thetford Academy, The Sharon Academy or the Hanover High School (for High School). Our own kids chose to go to TSA. I haven't read through all the comments, but Strafford is an hour's drive from Killington (on a good day with the wind at your back).

You really don't have a clue do you? I work with stock brokers and I'm literally telling you that I know people, lots of people, who had half a million twenty years ago, when they started retirement, and have three quarters of a million or more now. But nah! You go ahead and natter on about "upkeep", "repairs", and "old equipment".

It doesn't cost $400/month if you have solar panels. They're everywhere around here and not just on million dollar houses. I see them on ramshackle trailer homes with a quarter of a million dollar excavator sitting in the back yard. If you're sitting on a million dollars, you install solar panels once and you're done. For heat, you install heat pumps; and you're done. So, we can tick those off your list. As for groceries... I don't see the price of those varying all that much from state to state, so groceries aren't the issue. Besides, at $100/week, that's easily paid for through passive investment income.

Gas? Why would anyone in retirement with a million dollars be paying for gas? I know plenty of customers, not millionaires, who have installed solar panels and charge their EVs for free. So check that off your list.

Phone? That can cost as little as $20/month if you don't need data; and why would someone in retirement need data for roaming? Repairs on a house? Usually that's a roof and roofs nowadays are good for up to 60 years. These people aren't going to live for another 60 years, so that's a one time expense.

I personally know plenty of retirees with less than a million who are doing just fine and did just fine with half that amount. They didn't live extravagantly but within their means.

I don't get these projections at all. What is a retired couple (I assume) spending their money on that they would burn through a million dollars in X number of years? Presumably, if they have a million dollars, they're also earning passive income on that money. So how is it that they're spending that passive income along with burning through their principle? If they've socked away a million dollars, then they arguably don't have a mortgage? On the other hand, I guess if they're debt-laden, house, cars, second homes, etc. etc. I could see it. I'm sure there are plenty of millionaires who could live indefinitely on that stash no matter what state they live in. Presumably, and all else being equal, if they're financially thrifty enough to stash a million, they're wise enough to know how to invest it and not spend it.

This should have been in the flowchart. Best answer yet.

Your reaction to this is funnier than the link. Ya'll actually seriously think somebody is asking when to turn the heat on..... all because you don't know how to read a reddit post....

I didn't ask when to turn the heat on. So far, there are 43 downvoting idiots, including you, who missed the joke.

I'll be referring to the flowchart.

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/when-to-turn-your-heat-on-in-new-england-a-decision-guide