Just the way this article starts is indicative of the problem.

""I live nearby and thought it would increase traffic on my end of the road," she said at the local community center, where she was having lunch recently. "But I'm 72 years old, and facing the possibility of moving into a center such as this... and it's something we all need to think about, because there isn't enough suitable housing in this area."

If you are so short sighted that you would oppose community supports like this purely because it would result in some more traffic vaguely nearby and you only support it when you are staring senility and incapacity in the face, you are the problem.

A lot of Vermonters talk big when it comes to the idea of community but when it comes to actually investing in and building infrastructure to care for one another, they come up comically short and at this point, it almost feels vindictive.

If you want to know how to keep young people here, maybe consider investing in the childcare programs young families desperately need. If you are having trouble seeing a primary care doctor when your doc retired because they didn't want to deal with COVID, consider fighting back against the nimby bs of your neighbors who blocked a new building for Charlotte Community Health on the basis of "wetland concerns" (plus, this is New England, if you are not on a mountain you are probably standing in a bog or what used to be a bog).

Point is, put your money where your mouth is and if you think Vermont is this wonderful place where people care about one another, maybe don't block the nursing home down the street because God forbid you might hear a car engine every blue moon.