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Easy_Pizza_7771 t1_jdg0pdu wrote

Are they just trying to force students out and shut the place down? There has been kids play equipment up at the apartments I think since the early 2000s.

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aMaezingadventures OP t1_jdg239t wrote

We pointed that out, our new housing director didn’t know they existed 😂🤦🏻‍♀️

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EpictetussutetcipE t1_jdg3vlm wrote

New housing director, likely went to newer degree programs focusing on greed and exploitation. He's doing what the new economic model and greed mechanics expect of him. They should be shamed into resignation.

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Easy_Pizza_7771 t1_jdgldxr wrote

Sadly that's what you get when you whittle away at and force out the people who have known and worked at the place for decades. You get outsiders who start making decisions who don't know the place or what they're doing.

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PianistInformal4967 t1_jdh1hvp wrote

It seems the insiders don’t know what to do either if it’s failing…

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suzi-r t1_jdkjytc wrote

Could be that Easy’s point is that outsiders have become insiders, so to speak. Happening all over VT as newbies come in, judge VT to be inadequate compared to what they had elsewhere, change things & price out many of the older VTer & even their kids…neither understand nor respect the efforts & culture of those who have lived here before them, & certainly don’t respect the quality of the rural life & environment here, or the natives & long-timers they coexist with. It’s not just VT either, it’s everywhere. Talk to a rural Florida native (a friend of mine who settled here a few years ago) about what happened to her father’s farm and the family’s small town. Or a local in NH (and another, a former student of mine living on disability allowance in a nearby Vt town) just thrown out of their apt. bc the building’s been bought by someone who want to “remodel” & sell/rent to ppl who can pay lots more. Or a dairy farmer in central VT whose income has diminished so quickly that improvements and diversification are unaffordable and the herd must be sold. And many more, all across the nation.

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kosmonautinVT t1_jdhwdyw wrote

Jfc, so they've never driven by and looked at the apartment building? The playground equipment is right there

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Galadrond t1_jdgpp2o wrote

They probably just want to take whatever money is left in the system and run, just like Marlboro.

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Amyarchy t1_jdhmgdk wrote

Marlboro's demise still stings. I graduated 30 years ago this May and I would have loved to attend a reunion. Sigh.

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Galadrond t1_jdu5tlp wrote

Yep, they just stole the money and ran away.

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