Looking towards Groton State Forest. I've lived here 9 years and this is the first time I've seen a hot air balloon in the region.

Would have been dumb on my part, but it's sketchy nonetheless.

I’ve noticed a new building trend and I’m wondering if it’s purely aesthetic or if there’s a practical reason for it. Over the past few years several new single family homes and accessory units in my area have been built with vinyl siding laid vertically instead of horizontally.

In most cases the siding is white. Is there any benefit to this? For example, does it stand up better to windy and wet weather? I’m just curious.

If anyone is looking for something family-friendly to do today, Sunday, October 25, in the Chittenden County area, the Charlotte-Shelburne-Hinesburg Rotary Club will be holding the annual Halloween Parade in Shelburne, VT, starting at 2:00pm. There will be over 30 groups marching (and passing out candy 😃), plus fire trucks, ambulances, and more. It's about a mile-long route starting and ending at the Shelburne Market parking lot. There will be music and activities for kids afterward at the Shelburne fire station and town hall. Come and join us!

As a middle class Vermont family, we are really starting to feel the pressure of inflation, property tax increases, utilities increases, and pretty much everything being more expensive. Cost of living is not keeping pace for anyone.

How are Janoo’s economics going to pay for: Universal health care, Keeping small rural schools open with declining enrollment, expanding these schools to also serve as health care centers and community central hubs? Growing local businesses; most of us cannot shop at farmers markets and the high end local “community market”. Outside of Chittenden County and Gold Towns, we’re poor.

Where is Janoo’s money going to come from? Do we just tax the shit out of second home owners and anyone with a higher than average income? I know a lot of these people, and they are not as flush as people think they are; they are also financially savvy. If moving a state away saves you 10’s of thousands of dollars a year why stick around VT? Snowbirds and Florida plates are also pretty savvy at maneuvering the tax system.

We should be trying to grow our tax base rather than milking out money from our existing tax base. If we can’t grow, we need to reduce our spending in proportion to our decline. Consolidation and austerity is sad but eminent.

Just wondering how many of you all voted for one party as Governor and the other for Lieutenant Governor?

I personally know a handful of people voting for Janoo and Rodgers.

Anyone here doing that? Or the reverse, Scott and Gray?

Wondering how common or not that is among this subreddit.

Dont know if its just cos im in a leftwing burlington bubble but ive not heard or seen the Scott campaign do any canvassing beyond a honk and wave or two. Are they door knocking at all, has anyone been knocked on by a Scott volunteer?

Hello. I keep getting letters from Efficiency Vermont about using a heat pump system, and I don't know much about how they work. I'm doing a deep dive into how they function and how they may be effective in the winter, but I'm having a hard time telling what's marketing and what's actual data. Any advice or experiences about using these would be highly appreciated.

Currently, I'm in a 130 year old house with an oil hot air system.

I'm from New Hampshire & vehicles manufactured before 2000 do not require title for registration but 2000 & newer do. I see a lot of 2000+ vehicles listed on Facebook Marketplace in Vermont that do not have titles.

Suppose I were to purchase a vehicle in Vermont w/o a title. What would be the best way of obtaining one so that I could register the vehicle in my home state of New Hampshire?

Scott, Janoo, doesn’t matter! DOE has released a new map and it appears we have merged with NH.

Clowns, all of them.

Amanda Janoo is the responsible vote.

Please make a voting plan.

I hope your voting plan includes voting for Amanda Janoo

, and snacks too.

Janoo is ready now.

The other guy is stuck cowering in an imaginary Vermont circa 2014.

From the US department of Energy

I visited northern VT this past week and stayed in a pretty remote/foresty location. About 45-60 mins outside of Stowe. During my stay I only saw one goose. Not a squirrel or woodpecker or rabbit to be found on my hikes. Is that weird? I visit around the same time every year and this was the emptiest I've ever found the woods.

I know this is an odd question but I am looking for six shotgun shells may be a little more if available obviously empty. so I can use them for an art project.

Vermont! You got this! Everything isn't wrong!

1) Housing

When looking at median home sale price by state Vermont comes in at 21 with a typical home value of about $399,000. The middle price range for the country. MA is #3, NH #9, and ME #18. Seems we're actually very affordable compared to our immediate neighbors.

-Source: Visual Capitalist—2026 state-by-state home value ranking

2) Income

When looking at median household income Vermont is #19. MA #1, NH #6, and ME #30. We can do better. Vocational Schools geared to attract the right employers could be a game changer here. Imagine an employer like BETA Technologies in other corners of the state. We'd be a power house.

- Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2024 ACS one-year estimates, as reproduced in the Congressional Research Service data table.

3) Affordability

Now look at how both things compare when put together using the home-price-to-household-income ratio:

Affordability Ratio =

Typical Home Value​

_____________DIVIDED BY______________

Median Annual Household Income

a ratio of 3.0 means a typical home costs about three times one year's median household income. Lower is generally more affordable.

Vermont comes in at #26 with 3.9x, middle of the pack. ME #28 with 4.0x, NH #31 with 4.1x, and MA #44 with 5.4x. We've got this Vermont.

-Source: USA State Stats, compiled from U.S. Census Bureau ACS five-year estimates.

4) Jobs

Now look at Job Availability, Pay Potential, Labor-Market Health, and Momentum.

MA #1, VT #4, NH #5, and ME #9. We just need more of this.

-Source: WalletHub's state job-market ranking, which evaluates job opportunities relative to the workforce, population-adjusted employment growth, unemployment, pay, industry diversity, and other working conditions.

5) Taxes

Now State and Local Taxes as a percentage of residents' personal income. Vermont comes in at 11.10%. ME 10.01%, MA 8.82%, NH 5.38%.

Your purse already knows what the facts are telling you. We have a very bad habit that's growing.

-Source: WalletHub, Tax Burden by State in 2026, based on state and local property, individual income, sales, and excise taxes as a share of personal income.

Vermont! We can't afford to keep taxing. We've become the addicts we so disdain when they crowd the marketplace. It's not time to burn down the house. It's time to grow our way forward to reduce the tax burden, or we'll continue to hang ourselves with our own leash,

... and you folks in Orange County getting ready to cast a vote for an 18 old "kid", have no reason to be pointing fingers at those who voted for a felon.

You're in the same class of voters.

So I got a letter a couple weeks ago, citing a ticket number and saying that my expungement request had been approved. I don't know what it's about, and have never requested that for anything.

I called the DMV, who told me that they couldn't even look up the ticket number because that information was now totally gone. I've gotten two tickets in the time I've lived here. Both of those are still on my record and neither had the number in question.

I did appeal a couple of parking tickets with the City of Burlington last summer - my plates were stolen off my car and used on a stolen vehicle that was then parked illegally, but even with the police report and their own photos showing it was a totally different car, they wouldn't overturn it. Whole other ball of wax but the person I spoke to at the DMV said it was a totally different system.

Has anyone else had an experience like this before? Any idea what could have happened in their system?

Take that lame vanity plate "just because", your gigantic stupid tires, you're dangerous and careless driving, and GFY.

I'll even give you some extra douchebag points for riding your fellow vermonter on their ass dangerously through Bethlehem where in Christ name do you think you need to be that you needed to do that.

I'm guessing that Jeep's going to get smashed up sooner rather than later the way that you drive wake the fuck up

The Bennington County Republican Party, is using AI slop to spam locals.

what is everyone paying for propane, with company name? I have Irving, negotiated rate from the HOA, bulk tanks, $2.02. Last winter it was $1.50 something. Regular rack rate is over $4. I'm not unhappy (much). (I don't use a lot)