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Some people prefer Vermont's landscape, culture and politics and might be willing to give up 0.8% of income tax savings.
by woah 8y ago
Some people prefer Vermont's landscape, culture and politics and might be willing to give up 0.8% of income tax savings.
- ip26 8y agoYup, at some point you consider, it's only $800 and maybe you're getting a lot for your money. Not to mention other factors in overall cost of living can totally swamp that $65/mo. You probably spend more on internet.
- analognoise 8y agoIsn't the fact this program exists at all a testament to people not preferring Vermont and having to be incentivized to go there?
- jimhefferon 8y agoI think it is a trial baloon, and arises out of a perception that maybe in the future there will be large numbers of such people.
- markbnj 8y agoIt's been twenty years since I lived in southern NH and worked for a company in Vermont, but I don't remember a lot of differences in the landscape, or frankly the culture. Yes Vermont has a reputation for being liberal and progressive, and NH has a reputation for being the live free or shoot me place, but the reality on the ground, at least when I was there, was a lot less contrasting.
- GoRudy 8y agoI think there's a material difference between southern new hampshire and most of vermont. Vermont in general is far more rural (outside of Burlington, Rutland) whereas the larger towns in southern new hampshire that are fast growing are basically now suburbs of boston.
- francisofascii 8y agoSo it that why the state leans progressive? Liberal transplants from Boston? For a state that seems to be mostly rural without a large city, it is amazing Bernie Sanders is the senator.
- Thlom 8y agoMaybe living rural doesn’t automatically make you regressive.
- bobochan 8y agoVermonter here. The average Vermonter voted for a Socialist Senator, a Democratic Representative, and a Republican governor in the last election. The person tends to be much more important than the party. Vermont was reliably Republican until there was the perception that the GOP had an evangelical social agenda. Vermonters are not against private expressions of faith, but they believe it is deeply personal and have no interest in being lectured on it by politicians.
- dsfyu404ed 8y ago>Liberal transplants from Boston There's a lot of people from NYC that want to retire upstate but come to the realization that NYC has done a very thorough job turning the entire state into a dump and that the only way out is to move out of state. However, as a sibling comment pointed out, even if you ignore transplants the people of Vermont tend to agree with the modern left on a certain set of social issues anyway.
- bobochan 8y agoThis. Vermont and NH residents are much more concerned by property taxes and education funding. I do not love having to fill out yet another tax form for the state in VT, but the income tax is a rounding error compared to other expenses. Meanwhile, I live somewhere that other people come to vacation. It is paradise year round (with an exception for mud season).
- dsfyu404ed 8y ago>Meanwhile, I live somewhere that other people come to vacation. It is paradise year round (with an exception for mud season). Those vacationers are going to permanently move to your "paradise" when they want to retire or start families and it will be a paradise no longer.
- bobochan 8y agoAll are welcome, particularly if they want to start families. We could use many more young families with school age children. We are an old state with a dropping population, hence why the government is trying to attract new residents. Seriously, grab your skis, get in the car and come on up; the more the merrier.