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Hantelope3434 t1_irmpg1z wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in Come On Leaf Peepers....You Can Do Better. by mcnut14

The great thing about owning land is you can decide what YOU want to do with it and not care about some random dude on Reddit who doesn't own his own land wants.

Using the land I live on to build small houses or townhomes and and becoming a landlord for dozens of people in my backyard kind of defeats the purpose of living rurally for me. You do you. This farm will do their own thing too.

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[deleted] t1_irmpq1j wrote

This “farm” is taking government subsidies though.

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Hantelope3434 t1_irmqx85 wrote

How do you contribute to the world? Do you raise beef? Make maple syrup? Help with agritourism to educate? They do those things, and farms deserve those subsidies, otherwise there would be no farms. They get tax breaks on their land. Your "definition" of a farm does not matter. It's what the community, state and country consider a farm. Which is what this place is. A farm. Let them pay less for property taxes and go do something with your life.

What do you consider a farm if it's not a place that makes food and provides to the community?

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[deleted] t1_irmrf6l wrote

I am a pediatric oncologist

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Hantelope3434 t1_irmrvpq wrote

Bro, we can all see your post and comment history. You are no health care worker, let alone a doctor lol!

You didn't answer my question, how do you define a farm if it's not a place that makes food??

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[deleted] t1_irms18c wrote

Source for your claim, flatlander?

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Hantelope3434 t1_irmsi3h wrote

I've been living in the rocky mountains for a decade. The cute hills out here in Vermont are pretty and green, but I would definitely consider you the "flatlander".

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[deleted] t1_irmt0bb wrote

Wow. Confirmed flatlander!

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Hantelope3434 t1_irmuay0 wrote

Well actually I think I decided on the Adirondack mountains, as it's about the size of Vermont with bigger mountains and cheaper property taxes... So not gonna live in your pretty green hills, but at least I'm not someone who is "born and raised and never left the same state I live in now and somehow I think I'm special"!

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[deleted] t1_irmul82 wrote

Good thinking

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Hantelope3434 t1_irmv47v wrote

I thought so too! Better backpacking + less snobs + cheaper land = better living! And you wonder why Vermont is paying good money for people to relocate to your state...

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[deleted] t1_irmvc06 wrote

The politics of nys which is a fight between the state and nyc is really terrible and everyone ends up on the losing side. But if you can ignore that and have the money up there it isn’t that bad.

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Hantelope3434 t1_irmwgfg wrote

I have lived in NYS before, people complain about the issues with NYC versus the rest of NYS but I have found every state has that issue with their one major city versus the rest of the state. I found out west the politics were significantly more pronounced in that area versus the north east. Rural versus urban will always have money and politics issues. Vermont doesn't have it as significantly bc Burlington is small, but you still see the complaints and frustration from NEK and the east

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