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Don’t move here if you hate high taxes, the cold, snow, and cheese

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By Ted Cohen

If you’re lactose intolerant and too dainty for bone-chilling cold, fuhgeddaboudit.

Forget about moving to Vermont, that is.

Kristin Grimes

A freelance writer from the Green Mountain State has crafted an essay for OnlyInYourState.com as a “public service” for wannabe transplants.

Kristin Grimes titled the piece “16 Reasons Why You Should Never, Ever Move to Vermont.”

Grimes speaks the language as a Vermont convert. She openly describes herself as “a Vermont transplant.”

So she’s a good one to heed when it comes to Vermont’s downsides.

Among the top killers? The high taxes and frigid weather.

“Be prepared to sell everything you own just to afford to live here,” Grimes warns. “The cost of living … ranks among the worst aspects of living in Vermont.”

Moreover, “We have too much snow. If you can’t embrace the white stuff all winter, then life in Vermont will be a bit challenging for you.

“And if you can’t handle the cold, you certainly can’t handle Vermont,” she says. “Vermont is one of the coldest states in the U.S.”

Then there’s the cheese thing. “Lactose intolerant? You’ll have a hard time. The state is known for its sharp cheddar cheese, and eating it is a must when living here.”

And the roads? Don’t get us started.

“Driving can be positively frightening,” Grimes reports. “Sometimes even the potholes have potholes.”

And perhaps the ultimate humiliation moving to Vermont? “You’ll always be considered a flatlander.

“If you weren’t born in Vermont, you’re a flatlander. Even if you moved here one day after you were born, you’re a flatlander. This rule is strict and unwavering. If you can’t handle this one, you probably won’t be able to handle moving to Vermont. Period.”

Grimes is secretly a huge fan of Vermont so maybe she’s just subliminally trying to keep it all to herself by highlighting its lower peaks.

Typical Vermont transplant…

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  1. I remember someone asking me why SPECIFICALLY I missed my deceased Mom. “She was my MOM,” I replied. I don’t sugarcoat my memories of her, but I loved her, still do.

    My feelings of Vermont are the same: I know she’s not perfect. She has high taxes, my beliefs are barely tolerated, isolation is an issue…but VERMONT IS MY HOME. This is where God placed me, and until He tells me to go elsewhere, this is where I stand and fight.

    • Amen. I am not a native Vermonter, but when I first came here in the 1990’s, I knew that I should have been. I also felt called by God to move here.

      I’m of Dutch and German ancestry adopted by Italians. If they could call me their child, I can call Vermont my home.

  2. The author is right about the high cost of living, the high taxes and the potholes. She perhaps leaves it up to the readers to figure out just who to blame for those issues, but a majority of us vote for them every other November and sometimes in March. As for those who are lactose intolerant, any real aged cheddar cheese contains no lactose, so dig right in.

  3. If the author is “secretly a huge fan of Vermont,” how do you know this? It’s a secret.

  4. One of the greatest states in the union. The problem isn’t Vermont or the Vermonters. The problem is with the communists and the communists that took over its culture and government. It has nothing to do with cold and cheese.

    Mice die in mouse traps because they can’t figure out why the cheese is free.

  5. Well, I’m glad for the article, because maybe it will keep new moonbats at bay.

    I moved here because of the snow, the can-do attitude, and the peace. “Too much snow” does not exist. I always found the realtor term “Winter Kill” amusing.

  6. I love Vermont from the early Summer to the late Fall, then I hate it. Screw Winter, you can have it.

    She’s correct about the potholes, yet incorrect about the cheddar and lactose intolerance as Mr. Lachapelle correctly points out.

    Regarding high costs and taxes, property values went sky-high after Covid. Many ‘flatlanders’ moved to Vermont with their children and now schools (neglected in maintenance for years) need to be updated and brought to code. I wouldn’t call it outright gentrification, but the effects are there.

  7. I’m in. My only request. If only the condition of the roads reflected what I pay in taxes, motor vehicle registration and license fees. The streets would be paved with gold or at the very least gold labeled cheddar cheese.

  8. First of all Ms Grimes appears to live in Stowe. Stowe is not Vermont. She lives in a 2.3 million dollar house. How many real Vermonters do you think she interacts with? Looks like she has only lived in the state for about 10 years. What does she know about VT? VTD, Don’t give these people any coverage on your site. VTDigger, WCAX, VTPublic and the rest of the media in VT give them too much already

    • Correction: VDC not VTD (I know we will never stop VTD from given these people press coverage)