cpujockey t1_irm9ji5 wrote on October 9, 2022 at 10:10 AM

Reply to comment by stopbotheringme1776 in Come On Leaf Peepers....You Can Do Better. by mcnut14

Yep. Then they go all in on a site unseen property when shit hits the fan in their state.

SheSellsSeaShells967 t1_irmq609 wrote on October 9, 2022 at 1:20 PM

OMG the buying real estate site unseen was a thing over here in Maine for a while during the pandemic. It’s pretty entertaining to watch the questions and concerns people have once they land here having apparently done no research whatsoever. It has blown my mind that seemingly intelligent, wealthy people thought they could just pull up stakes and move here knowing nothing about the culture and most importantly, the weather.

cpujockey t1_irmsscb wrote on October 9, 2022 at 1:42 PM

It does give me a giggle seeing those folks rage.

SheSellsSeaShells967 t1_irmyy0j wrote on October 9, 2022 at 2:31 PM

Same haha. If I had a dollar for every person this week wondering where they can get a couple of cords of firewood at this late date 😆

SlytherinTargaryen t1_iroco07 wrote on October 9, 2022 at 8:03 PM

I’ve been wondering what‘s going to happen with these buyers when the real VT winter hits. Spring, beautiful. Summer? Gorgeous. Fall, omg. But it’s one thing to spend a week at a ski lodge and quite another to endure endless months of digging your car out in the dark in -10 degrees only to find the gas froze in your tank when you try to head out to work. Months and months and months of bitter cold and no sunlight.
I‘m not trying to be snarky here. The Russian writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsy settled in Vermont when he fled for his life, because the hard winters here fondly reminded him of RUSSIA. It’s a test of endurance and I’m skeptical that all the new buyers fully understood what they were buying into.