For comparison, I think VT’s vacancy rate is 0.5%…

Totally. It’s really shitty. I forget the percentage of purposely vacant apartments owned by investors in the city, but I think it was like 40%. Which should be criminal.

VT is nowhere near big enough for that strategy to work for anyone. You’re thinking cities as big as our state where this happens.

Excellent comment. Thank you.

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Saddle up, boys….

An hour, right?

You could also consider middlebury.

There is not diversity in Vermont outside of Burlington, and it’s incredibly limited in Burlington. Anyone who claims there is diversity in VT likely has not lived out of the state. It is a bubble.

Rutland could be difficult socially. Lots of folks stuck in the 1950s there politically and socially. It’s very low cost though. One of the few (very, very small) cities in the northeast you can still purchase a home for under $200k.

If you want a magical place to raise kids kinda close to Killington, try Manchester. Lots of very wealthy people from larger cities are there, but you can still find a decent house for under 500k. It’s about an hour and ten away from the mountain.

I experienced plenty of racism here while in a biracial relationship. A lot of people here are pretty great though.

Where in CA?