13 Reasons to Live in Vermont [What is Vermont Like?] 

You forgot Bernie Sanders! lol We Californians love Bernie.

My favorite is that Vermont has been ranked the best state to live in. Hell yea! Where did u get the rankings from?

www.vermont.org/move-to-vermont/why-vermont

You did a nice job pointing out the many things that make VT enticing! Having been to all 50 states, I will always rank Vermont in my top 10 (along with NH and Maine). Nothing like Cold Hollow Market and Cider Mill on a crisp, fall day, and the many beautiful villages - Woodstock, Manchester, Grafton, Middlebury, Dorset, Norwich, Wilmington, Weston, Stowe, Plymouth and so many more! I am not a winter lover, but enjoy taking a winter vacation in VT. The country roads, church suppers, Shelburne, even Church Street in Burlington, lots of history, and don't forget the wonderful diners. I am not fond of the Left wing politicians like Bernie and Leahy, but I have enjoyed numerous wonderful trips to VT in all 4 seasons, especially a bike trip I took in the CT River Valley one late Sept/early Oct - staying in inns all along the way. Your easy manner was compatible with the friendly, easy-going nature of the people of Vermont. I absolutely love Cabot cheese and can get it at local stores now, where I used to have to order it online. Lots of great arts & crafts throughout the state as well. Hard to pick a favorite town, as there are so many great ones. Also enjoy Lake Willoughby. Best wishes!

@@janetrauger3876 There are several ranking systems covered in videos. Sometimes NH, CO or another state is right up there, too, but VT is always top 5, and consistently has the lowest crime rate in America, and it is 49th in population (WY), so it's rural beauty should always keep it nice. I also love its close proximity to Montreal, the most European city in North America, as long as Trudope and the Covid Cult loons do not close the border.

I'm glad you enjoyed it! 🙂

Yea, no billboards is pretty nice I think. I don't know enough about Maine to do a comparison about it yet but I will do my research and eventually make a video comparing them! 🙂

I've been here 14 years and can't imagine ever seeing a billboard again.

The layers of bluish mountains, like a picture is definitely one of my favorite views

You're very welcome, thanks for the support! 😊

Thank you!

Very good state.

It is!

We Feel you in California. Same thing happened here. We been invaded by Transplants. Dems have taken over with their Voter Fraud and ruined our great state. We should of build a Wall to the East! Taxes, Gas price, Property Taxes, even food have all gone thru the roof. The Woke have flooded here too and ruined out Great State. Why many of us Natives had enough of these Leftiest and leaving. We tried to vote them out. But like I said Voter Fraud. It a couple Cartel Families that run this state now. Shame.

It definitely can be! Watch my video on preparing for Vermont winters!

Well, not really towns as a whole, just usually the closer your house is to a river and the lower down it is the more you have to worry. Usually you only have to worry about that if you already will be required to have flood insurance.

Hey, whether or not you decide to make a rash decision or be patient about it I'll be here waiting haha. 😉

No gators!

@@mtntime1 I don’t care for college football anyway

Snowy & cold, like my other video you watched said!

That's awesome that you loved Vermont so much! I used to work construction too and one of the coolest projects I worked on was the hospital in Middlebury. I'm curious, how has your experience been living in Vermont as a black man since VT has hardly any diversity? I get the question a lot on this channel but I can't speak from experience obviously. (Judging by your profile pic)

@@LivinginVermont my life in Vermont was about work and I was never boke,after the hope lodge project I work with labor ready now people ready they kept me busy,through people ready I work for Cassell waste management and DC construction I never experienced racism,on Sunday I attended faith Baptist church in wynooski my mentor was Dave Roy of Milton vt he gave me good advice and till this day I keep in touch with him, I love Vermont, I stay at BES and after moving out of BES I stay at Swiss host motel on Williston road for six month burlingtonVT was good to me,I have nothing bad to say about the great state.. Craig Adams of Adams construction great guy..I got married and I moved

@@gasconitv7138 thank you for the detailed response! I'm glad to hear you had such a great experience with Vermont! When are you moving back?

@@LivinginVermont I'm planning on spending Christmas in the great state of Vermont ,burlington to be precise looking on securing employment before moving!I'll definitely be there for Christmas, I'll give you a Holla..

@@gasconitv7138 awesome! You'll have to apply for the Vermont job move incentive that could potentially get you $7,500 also!

That's great to hear! Southern accents definitely make you stand out haha

@calm day out today that's why we moved as we use to live on the Gulf Coast and the weather is getting more and more extreme down there as well as the town of Foley which I was born and raised has grown 10 fold and isn't the small close-knit community of my childhood. My kids love the fall and winter and things are at a slower pace which we love. We joke about moving into a Norman Rockwell painting.

@@surviversmiles8315 this is a flat out lie. I live in Addison County, I happen to have grown up on a farm, my dad and grandparents own 3, lots of my friends in school all grew up on farms. Lots of wide open acreage. Did you grow up in the middle or Rutland or Winooski and never leave them? VT builds hardly anything a year. Too many laws to do so. By your one million negative comments on all my videos, half of them super exaggerated or just lies, I think you probably could spend your time enjoying the state you moved to rather than trying to deter others from this state that plenty of people, myself including love. And yes, there used to be way more farms, small farms don't thrive in VT because it's not super business friendly and milk prices are usually not very good.

Depends in what context you ask, and also where in the state. I have a history of speeding tickets but if you stay below 15 over you're usually fine.

It is a lovely spot to vacation!

Thanks for the comment! I honestly have no idea, but I am looking into it for you. I will get back to you!

@@LivinginVermont That would be great...thanks Kevin!

Hey Kevin, Could you please send me an email to jwbarnes.75@gmail.com so we can further discuss? I'm waiting to hear back from both a county and town zoning office, but it sounds like it's a town by town situation, and rather than call every town in VT I'd rather see what areas you would consider moving to, and what you are looking for in land, then call towns that would be ideal for you. Thanks for your patience.

@@LivinginVermont I see, I am looking in the Andover, Windsor County, area to start was going to focus on the places where such a situation was permitted in stead of the other way around. I thought you might just know off hand ...no need to call each town I'd have to put you on the payroll...lol

@@legaleagleandpaws8198 I would be interested in info that you find also

Well I would love to help you move here, but I have no knowledge of the visa process and all that. That's something you'd have to look into on your own, assuming you don't have one already. I just help people buy and sell houses.

Yes. It looks like Europe.

@@surviversmiles8315 what is different?

@@surviversmiles8315 Why ?

@@cs-90 The moonbats

I'm interested in moving there...can you help

I'll have to get on that!

This one should be a no brainier lol

Pennsylvania

Neither. Born in Pa, lived in VT.

Not PA.

Well, I'm happy to help! 😄

And your state is.....?

@@mtntime1 TN

@@mrgenetics4063 That's ironic, because here in Colorado, it's the same thing. Hordes of people moving in from California, also Texas. The Californians especially, with a big wad of cash from selling their expensive home back there, come here and drive the prices up. having that problem in Tenn?

@@mtntime1 yup, same problem here…I’m from the Knoxville area and we are seeing things we have never experienced before: long traffic, deforestation to manufacture same look-alike housing neighborhoods, food trucks on streets and bigger presence of LGBTQ community, as well as other things like crime/graffiti. It’s reckoning havoc because now property and state/local taxes are rising ….they are buying out absolutely everything. It really sucks because I grew up here all my life and now seeing it fade away to not enjoy what I used to enjoy here. Maine and Vermont have been on my radar since I have been keeping an eye on their population size and seem to be relatively the same for many years. No crime and no overpopulation is how I like my cup of tea Sux to hear about your state going thru the same :/

Hey Candace, the stay to stay program was stopped because of Covid and hasn't returned since. On their website it says they will return, but who knows when that will be... As far as I am aware Vermont currently doesn't have any incentive programs to move to Vermont, although in the past they've had them almost every year... Either way though I would say you'll definitely get a safer, more wholesome life in Vermont. Don't be afraid to reach out if you need anything!

You will love it. It has the 4 seasons and purer - not all that freeze-thaw and slush of Detroit and a lot more sun. Lake Champlain will give you a taste of the Great Lakes, and som nice inland lakes. Detroit has more violent crime on a weekend than Vermont in an entire year. If you want big city fun, Montreal is really close, Boston is near as well, and even NayC is only 4 hours. They all offer more than Detroit could. I, too, was raised in Detroit (& SCS), buy left as soon as I graduated UM. Have seen all 50 states and do not miss MI one iota - though still have lots of family stuck there).

I have been to all 50 states and Oregon is my favorite. I like southern Oregon - warmer and less wet, and away from the nutbags in the Portland-Salem-Eugene corridor.!

me! because I am dying to LEAVE this state. I hate it here. Snow being the number one driver for me to leave but there are other things. I am like the complete opposite of these people

I can tell haha. Vermont is the snowiest state in the US so not much point to live here if you hate snow...

Well, I just replayed it full volume and it was certainly loud enough to hear. Seeing how the video has almost 300 likes and not many volume complaints it's likely the sound system you're using, but I'm always working to improve my videos so your input is appreciated.

@@LivinginVermont thx much👍

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It must not be that obvious because we are the 2nd least populated state haha

@@LivinginVermont that’s the best part. I can hide in Wells VT where people won’t bother you 💆🏻‍♂️. Fiber optic internet was highly unexpected though

Agreed. But fiber optic internet is a luxury most of Vermont doesn't have unfortunately... Hopefully at some point!

Obviously we just figured this out...

Haha, thanks for the input! That's something I always remind myself before and during the videos, smile and give double my normal energy because over video unfortunately normal energy just doesn't convey! I think I've improved a bit in my newer videos but I'll leave that up to you to decide...

Or take advantage of Vermont's first time home buyer down payment assistance programs etc., and buy in a cheaper area like Rutland or Barre. But other than certain areas, yes Vermont is very costly.

I’ve lived all over this country. Believe me, this is happening everywhere.

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And yet the state is offering incentives to get people to move there.

Oh I see. It's ok for YOU to live there, but nobody else?

@@mtntime1 well, given I am a native of the state and by virtue of my job can actually afford to live here, yes. But there are many who can't because out of staters keep moving in and turning Vermont into the place they moved away from.

Not lies. I never said Burlington didn't have crime. And if you did any looking you'd see this video is a few years old and it's mostly in the past 2-3 years where Burlington crime has gone up

There's a housing crisis in the whole US. 5 million few homes. New builds will eventually catch up. Whether or not you will welcome the people who are going to come either way, I will. 😃

@@LivinginVermont HA! I used to be welcoming. then the single family home next to me was renovated and turned in to 4 apartments. New neighbors up at all hours of the night, yelling and screaming, breaking windows, coming into my yard to retrieve items they hurled out the window in a fit of rage, glass all over my yard they left me to clean up. They drive like maniacs, turning what used to be a safe street into a death trap, and I have young children. They stand outside smoking so all the smoke goes in my open windows. They have an air conditioning vent blowing cigarette smoke right into my window. They play video games on surround sound speakers all night, making sleep a fitful experience. All from out of state. Okay, fine. Bad neighbors happen, I get it. I will move. But wait. I can't. For every rental that comes available, there are 100 potential applicants in the first 24 hours of the ad going up. I moved into my current residence three years ago, it was the first place I looked at and able to move right in. Now I've been looking for months. Landlords saying all out-of-staters moving in, offering way more than fair market value. There are building restrictions in Vermont, so not sure where these new houses will come from. Part of Vermont's charm is that it is remote, so why would we even want them? Of course you are a real estate broker, you are benefiting from this, of course you are welcoming. LOL. Come live next to my new neighbors and then not be able to move, tell me how that works out for you. They are here because COVID rates are low, my cousin had no problem finding a place in Missouri. It's like we are being punished for doing the right thing and flattening the curve. This is my home, I don't want to go to MIssouri

Yes that's unfortunate about your neighbors, bad neighbors will come and go, just like this crisis will eventually pass. UVM has record high enrollment, out of staters are realizing Vermont is a great place to live, and VT is slow to build and has lots of housing restrictions. I'm not totally against the housing restrictions because I love the way VT is, but let's be real, people from big cities are moving out of the cities to rural areas and something will have to budge. I don't have a great solution, but I don't think discouraging people to move to Vermont because people who've been here first think they get first dibs is going to work. And you are partly right, people moving helps real estate agents to a degree, except that we have hardly anything to show buyers and virtually nothing for people looking to rent before buying. I don't mean to sound rude because I get it, it sucks for a lot of people, but when Vermont spends way more money than it has, more rich taxpayers are exactly what we need. If you had the budget to outbid everyone else to escape your new neighbors would you not do so?

@@LivinginVermont I know rich taxpayers are what we need, that's why I was welcoming at first, and when I find a decent place, I may be welcoming again lol. It's not even about outbidding people atm, it's a straight up lottery to try to find a place, and the more people that come the more it makes me think Vermont will soon just be like 'everywhere else,' full of rude indifferent people, crazy drivers, line cutters, and litter all over public trails (not to mention dog feces). These are just a few of the things I've noticed an increase in since COVID hit and my town filled up (more than usual) with extended stay tourists. It makes me miss when the tourists would poke fun of Vermont a little bit for being too hippie-dippy and too cold, and then leave! Now they all want to live here

Living in Vermont "If you had the money to outbid, wouldn't you?'' Kind of a messed up way of looking at the world. The average person doesn't have the money to outbid, so most of us struggle to move or pay rent as everything gets out of hand. Everything is becoming only for the rich and the whole saying about the middle class disappearing is becoming more and more true. It's super alarming and scary stuff.