Posted on 03/04/2006 5:06:43 AM PST by Timeout
....This state of beautiful mountains and popular ski resorts, once a magnet for back-to-the-landers, is losing young people at a precipitous clip....
Vermont, with a population of about 620,000, now has the lowest birth rate among states....The total number of 20- to 34-year-olds in Vermont has shrunk by 19 percent since 1990.
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While Vermont's population of young people shrinks, the number of older residents is multiplying because Vermont increasingly attracts retirees from other states.
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Fewer babies are being born in part because Vermont has few immigrants, who tend to have larger families...There is also a serious housing shortage, with mountains and environmental restrictions barring building in many places.
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And Daniel M. Fogel, the University of Vermont's president, says some have not grasped the seriousness of the problem. They believe a shrinking population will prevent overdevelopment, but these "antisprawl folks are the very people who tend to value very highly the environmental protections and the social programs, which the state is not going to be able to afford if the working population shrinks"...
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That "perfect storm" known as utopian liberalism. It's so funny watching the Times and its fellow travellers discover that decades of aggresive building restrictions and sneering at large families leads to a collapse of their revered tax base.
Vermont is Europe without the immigrants. Incredible how, perhaps for the first time ever, the Times has written an article which omits any mention of race. How white is Vermont? Funny, too, how the libs Eutopias always seem to be overwhelmingly Caucasian.
Anyway, God bless Vermont...and its effort to make the state "the 'Silicon Valley' of environmental technology companies". LOL!
Howard Dean Heaven bump.
Touche!
I'm ashamed I didn't even think of THAT angle.
Hurricanes scared them off.
Perhaps this explains it:
Most people moving to Vermont are well-educated retirees like Dale Lott, 71, from New Jersey, who bought a Victorian Gothic house in Poultney for just over $100,000.I was amazed to read that. They certainly can't do that in Florida.
"There is also a serious housing shortage, with mountains and environmental restrictions barring building in many places."
It could be summed up as follows: Insane taxes and housing costs, no opportunity for young people.
I live in NY. I think they said that about 30% of the young people born here have left to go other states.
If I lived in a state that had Howard Dean as governor, Patric Leahy as senator and Bernie Sanders as my sole representative in Washington, I would leave in a flash.
Half of Vermont probably has a vacation home in Florida they go to when it gets cold. That way they get to vote twice in elections too.
they're moving to communist china where its less socialistic.
Couldn't find a meal until I got to Burlington. Where I got a parking ticket.
Good point. And that applies to the liberal suburbs that ring urban Boston. Brookline, Newton, Weston, Sudbury, etc. This is the limousine-liberal Mike Dukakis set. Want to see a bunch of liberals acting like David Duke? Just try putting up low-income housing in their tony suburbs and you will be entertained by their reactions. Or better yet, watch their reaction if their 19-year-old daughter brings a black man home to dinner. These liberals love tolerance and diversity, just so long it is other people doing the tolerating and diversifying.
They don't even mention that winter starts in October and lasts until May.
Those retirees will be sorry when they get really old.
I don't see too many Vermont plates in the panhandle. Most of plates are either from Canada or Michigan.
If we can pry the liberals out of academia, modern liberalism will end up being a self-correcting problem in the long-term. Thanks to gay marriage and abortion, they'll just wither away and die in a couple of generations. They have to recruit in the schools and universities in order to survive; else, they just dry up, with a birthrate that's unable to sustain their liberal Utopias.
We can win by just out-breeding them. And we'll have more fun doing it too! :)
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In Vermont if you buy a $100,000 Victorian it is probably in an advanced state of decay. So, where are the fixit guys? You know, the young electricians, plumbers, carpenters, etc., you find by the ton in the dynamic states of Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada and Utah? Where are the illegals who can be found to build walls, lay brick, and landscape? Something tells me that the Victorian is not the only thing in an advanced state of decay. How about Vermont society in general?
lmao, even then you better be through the door before the city closes down at 9pm.
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