[Logs and Dogs]

Never had a problem.

I have very close friends here that go way back and they are all contractors of some sort and have welcomed me into their "woodchuck" hunting camps etc. as I basically line up with their ideals and pull more than my weight in camp.

That being said, you can still run into the occasional close minded person which is fine, I just move on. I don't take it personally anymore than if someone from the mid-west moved to Boston and was treated like a slow country bumpkin.

In more and more areas, the successful (read good quality and well run) businesses are run by people with ties to other areas of the country not 5 generations of VTers. So that right there is a dynamic shift. In other more rural areas, the seemingly poor service etc. is because their is no competition forcing them to be any better at what they do.

[GregW]

One of the problems in less prosperous areas is anyone with the skills, personality and perseverance to be a prosperous contractor has moved to a place with enough money to let him earn a good living.

[GeoffD]

I just honk the horn on my BMW 550i xDrive. That always works when I get slow service in Vermont.