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VT Headlines: Small towns close roads to leaf-peepers
Interesting to see in Vermont, where we used to consider ourselves highly dependent on tourism, now allowing certain PUBLIC roads to be declared off limits to non-residents. We also disrespect our essential tourists by using tax money to turn too many motels into flophouses for junkies and opioid dealers. When tourists turn to private short-term rentals for clean, safe lodging, municipalities and the state put special taxes and restrictions on those services. Tourism and farming used to be revered and respected as essential services and occupations, but the demo/prog legislature has turned on them through excessive taxes and regulations and now apparently feels that we can pay for their bloated budgets by more “taxing the rich”.
Surprised that the signs on the scenic roads dont say: “closed to straight, binary, white, wealthy people”…
Public road is closed for the benefit of a few land owners is like me wanting my road closed because of to many people speeding.
Not likely that those who demand the town “close” those roads have much lineage in Vermont…guessing they are wealthy interlopers who want the scenery all to themselves, forgetting that they were once tourists here when they “discovered” Vermont and decided to buy a piece.
I think it ironic that a lot of these small towns have a majority of their selectboard that are urban refugees, or 1st generation “Vermonters” . I guess that what I’m saying is that they thought it was acceptable when they did it. Now that they are the ones that have tourists blocking “their” roads, and driveways, and parking in “their” fields, it’s an intrusion. Karma ?
So if these are public roads maintained by local or state agencies, then all these
” whine azzes ” can take a hike, I assume most are transplants to our state, so the Vermont we knew, is not that Vermont any longer.
Don’t whine as you probably voted for these carpetbaggers, wake up people show them what you think, and vote them out ASAP !!
Let’s say, I’m someone from… I don’t know…. someone from Texas. Someone from Texas who finally decided this was the year to take my long-awaited Vermont leaf-peeping trip with my lovely wife of 40 years. And I got into community X or community Y only to discover that the exact roads that were recommended to me for the best foliage were closed. I’d ask why. Was there a flood or some other natural disaster? Worse, was there a murder, forcing the authorities to lock down a perimeter? But I was told no, nothing like that. Basically, I was told… We don’t like your kind.
What?!? My friends, who had been here just ten years ago, extolled the wonders of Vermont. Vermont was the most welcoming state in the union. A mecca for out-of-staters for nine or ten months a year, they said.
I’m sure if that were me, I’d be just a bit ticked off. Because in Texas, the US Constitution is still in effect, at least out where I’m from. I might just consider this an infringement on my Constitutional right to travel freely on all the country’s public roads. And I’d be right. DAMNED right. But would I put up a big stink about it? No, I’d probably go back home get on with my life, vowing never to return again.
But what I would do is tell everyone who asked (and probably some who didn’t) what a faux, hypocritical place Vermont is. How their advertising is just hype. Hype to herd you into places THEY want you to go, where they can separate you from your dollars without you ever having to go into whatever town is nearby, only to find people who are far more real and prices and value far more honest.
You know, the REAL Vermont that you still find in small towns all over the state. The place you THOUGHT you were going to in the first place.
Sad, isn’t it?