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Old 10-21-2010, 04:21 PM
 
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I just stumbled upon this after I was looking online at a $5 million 20,000 sq ft loft in Memphis TN that I saw in a magazine purely out of curiousity (it's a bit over my budget). And then I noticed that the yearly property taxes on this property were $8900. My modest $280,000 house in Burlington VT has yearly property taxes over $4000. And now with our useless mayor's and his administration buddies illegal "lending" of $17 million of city funds to a pointless city owned and sinking telecom company (which it's now pretty apparent cannot be paid back), who knows what's going to happen next. It's a nice little city to be a trust fund baby.
It's set up to keep the riff raff out, that much is obvious. You can't pay those taxes on VT wages, so the non-yuppie set has to leave. Thats the plan, and the statistics on numbers of native born Vermonters and transplants bear out that the plan is in fact working.
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Old 10-21-2010, 08:19 PM
 
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It's set up to keep the riff raff out, that much is obvious. You can't pay those taxes on VT wages, so the non-yuppie set has to leave. Thats the plan, and the statistics on numbers of native born Vermonters and transplants bear out that the plan is in fact working.
That's why we need the New Green Mountain Boys...stave off the new invasion from NY.
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Old 10-22-2010, 05:12 AM
 
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That's why we need the New Green Mountain Boys...stave off the new invasion from NY.
Not sure where you are these days, homesteader, but in Burlington and Chittenden County, the invasion is most definitely from NJ.
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Old 10-22-2010, 05:37 PM
 
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Not sure where you are these days, homesteader, but in Burlington and Chittenden County, the invasion is most definitely from NJ.
Well, we fought off NY, the United States and the British Empire last time. We can handle NJ too. Where I'm at right now it's mostly NY'ers and some from MA who are invading.

I wish Chittenden COunty would be renamed to cease tarnishing the name of Chittenden.
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Old 10-24-2010, 04:56 PM
 
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Well, we fought off NY, the United States and the British Empire last time. We can handle NJ too. Where I'm at right now it's mostly NY'ers and some from MA who are invading.

I wish Chittenden COunty would be renamed to cease tarnishing the name of Chittenden.
How does "United States Welfare Office" sound? Thats what Burlington is. You can't tell me all these NYC people have family here...
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Old 10-24-2010, 06:16 PM
 
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One thing to note is that the unemployment rate in VT is pretty low. Its about half of CT.

So maybe the wages aren't great but most people are employed which is good.

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Old 10-24-2010, 07:17 PM
 
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How does "United States Welfare Office" sound? Thats what Burlington is. You can't tell me all these NYC people have family here...
Sounds about right to me. I was also thinking Foolery County...
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Old 10-24-2010, 07:26 PM
 
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The high cost of things , it is true..
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Old 11-06-2010, 01:55 PM
 
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It's funny, I actually came up to Vermont because of the LOW cost of living! Granted, I'm not in the Chittenden co area, but I had the choice of moving either here or to DC for two job offers. Both had about the same pay, but with the exclusion of being able to foster a proper social life up here it was the right choice financially (given I was trying to get out of debt and the cost of living in DC is SOOOO much higher that anywhere in VT) and in terms of having a better, career nurturing job.
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Old 11-07-2010, 10:10 AM
 
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The thing I don't understand is the viewpoint of the old time vter's.

On the one hand they complain about high living expenses. Well this has a lot to do with the fact that VT is one of the highest taxes states in the nation. So the question is, why are these "old timers" so Liberal?

And why are they complaining about the "invaders" from NJ. Really I think you need to look in the mirror and ask why your senator is a Socialist. Maybe this explains why taxes/cost of living is so high??

It looks like much won't change, you just elected another democrat for mayor.

Good luck getting taxes lower now
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