Corey307 t1_j6yb1fr wrote on February 2, 2023 at 7:21 PM

Reply to comment by Icy_Intention6584 in Looking to buy a house in Vermont - What cities do you recommend by psychicfrequency

This state has a severe lack of blue collar workers right now, skilled trades people and service industry workers are needed.

icwhatudiddere t1_j71kztk wrote on February 3, 2023 at 12:33 PM

A bit of a catch-22- workers needed but no place to live. If you’re in the building trades, you need high wages to compete for housing but that drives rates, making construction of houses more expensive. Rinse and repeat. There are solutions to this but it’s a matter of political priorities.

Corey307 t1_j721lma wrote on February 3, 2023 at 2:48 PM

Oh I understand what you’re saying, skilled trades pay terrible here.

bizarre_pencil t1_j71rk3p wrote on February 3, 2023 at 1:33 PM

It’s crazy how xenophobic this sub can be. Vermont desperately needs people to move here and contribute to the economy.

Corey307 t1_j723jef wrote on February 3, 2023 at 3:01 PM

I understand why the locals don’t like a lot of transplants because those transplants try to turn this state into where they came from without caring about the needs of the locals. I’m friendly with my neighbors and most of them have been excessively kind to the point. I’ve come home super late from work more than a few times to find my driveway plowed by a random neighbor just being kind because they noticed I got stuck at work and wouldn’t be home until midnight. I bought a house in the country expecting that my neighbors would target shoot, hunt, keep animals, make a little noise at odd hours because they got to go to work and that’s fine by me. Then you’ve got transplants that treat the state like a theme park and expect to be worshiped for bringing their remote job here, I get why they wouldn’t be popular.

bizarre_pencil t1_j72hj3k wrote on February 3, 2023 at 4:32 PM

I understand it to a point, but that’s also only one side of the equation. Even the mythical “rich out of stater working remote moving here” is still bringing their dollars here to spend at our businesses.

NowIAmThatGuy t1_j73pxz5 wrote on February 3, 2023 at 9:13 PM

The whole country has a severe lack of blue collar workers.