Wife and I net around 80 and own a house in Franklin County, this house sat on the market for four months, we spent two months mulling it over, but this was at the very onset of Covid and the housing market here is a lot different now. For one, houses in my town are selling for ~160 to 180K more than what we paid for ours, and then interest rates, so becoming a homeowner right now on 80K doesn't sound good, you'd probably need to plan to rent. I have no idea what rents are like in '22 but when we moved here we paid 1600 for a 2 bedroom in Chittenden County and we were fine, had enough to afford a ski pass and budget our lives to pay the bills. Great part about VT is that from, call it late May to (well, this is changing, I'd say based on recent years call it Dec) you can enjoy the outdoors and that doesn't cost anything, until Skiing time of course. As others have said, number one thing to think about is heat source & cost, we have propane but I invested in a pellet stove and use that as my primary heating source, spend about $500-600 to heat the house in Winter, way cheaper than gas.