Right - but the incomes support that in NH. 2019 median income in Portsmouth was $83,923, and $51,394 in Burlington. THAT is the disparity & the issue w/ VT

VT has the lowest rate in the country of residents who can afford the median home, at 16%. Next lowest is CT at 21%. There’s some issue here

Gonna play devils advocate to the common consensus in this thread. Boston proximity has indeed led to a higher desirability in NH (close to jobs), but that’s not the main reason.

VT just doesn’t have the housing to support 2x more people. Apartments and homes surely could be built to accommodate more people, and I’m sure plenty of people would love to move to VT, but right now housing costs and lack of supply keep tons of people out of state.

Not only is this problematic today, but if the VT populace continues to trend to an older demographic, the state is going to be in even more trouble with the tax base.

Across the country, the bread-and-butter for states & municipalities to pay for nice services is taxing high-earners, generally people between 30-55. VT makes it really hard to grow that base of people.

Did you happen to read the article linked? It explains the situation pretty clearly. The money came from the LGBTQ Victory Fund

From the article:

> Silver reiterated what she and her boss have said for months: “The Balint Campaign has never had any contact with Mr. Bankman-Fried and has never solicited donations from him or his FTX associates. The campaign has no knowledge of how Mr. Bankman-Fried's political contributions were solicited or given.”

Also:

> We are keeping [fund from SBF and associates] in our sequestered account awaiting DOJ guidance on what to do,” Silver continued. “But we very much are looking to get this money back to the people who were harmed by this alleged fraud and are really hoping that the U.S. Attorney's Office can get to the bottom of what happened so that we can move forward.”

It’s a congressional race. Handing out money is exactly what people do

Municipalities already have a chokehold on housing zoning - hence the insanely high prices. Taking the veto power away from towns in some cases will allow more to be built, increase housing quality, and bring prices down.

Literally just building more market rate housing and this will improve in time

Yeah, thank you for saying the correct words I was missing. “Natural consequences of actions” is super important for young people. We try to teach young children this in their path of maturity.

Some of it may just be Americans viewing “college” as a four-year excuse to do whatever you want while away from your parents. And it doesn’t help if students never learn important lessons.

The cost per student was about $4 in the case that it was spread around. I get that it’s annoying for everyone to share it, but probably not worth fighting too hard.

> Caloiero also noted that this cohort of college students has weathered major social and educational disruptions due to the pandemic. In light of those upheavals, she advised parents and caregivers to exercise a bit of grace in dealing with their young adults.

Seems like a weak excuse for vandalizing the living space of your classmates. If you can’t exist in a college dorm without destroying it, maybe you’re not fit for college

> dignity to determine one’s own life course and shall not be denied or infringed

I don’t know shit about the law, but doesn’t this portion sound… very pro-life?

Edit - I guess I shouldn’t have asked?