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Thedancingsousa t1_j5zn4px wrote

Reply to comment by rufustphish in Teacher moving to VT by thebaerfetus

Housing here is incredibly expensive compared to other areas. I just moved last year from a fairly urban/suburban area. It was a "you can get to anything you want within 30 minutes" kind of place. I rented a 2 bedroom house, with a garage and basement, for about 1000 a month. I'm now paying 1200 for a small 2 bedroom apartment, plus 100 a month for the storage unit to keep what I couldn't fit. And I was lucky to come out that good, honestly. Housing disappears from the market before it's even listed and the next list priced place I found was 1500 and an hour away from where I work. Things are worse here in that regard, so much that a news article came up while I was hunting for somewhere to live titled "people rejecting jobs in Vermont because they can't find housing."

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rufustphish t1_j63bij3 wrote

I used to have no problem finding places to rent in VT either, before the pandemic.

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Thedancingsousa t1_j63d7wj wrote

I don't know if it's the pandemic, the Airbnb slumlords, or something else. It was almost important to find anything, because places were being signed for before they even got listed anywhere. I only found something because I got lucky. I called the landlord about a property he had listed. He told me it was no longer available, but he did have one coming up in two months right when I needed to move. I signed for it early and sent a security deposit so I would have something at all.

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