If that Brady letter gets issued, he'll be qualified to be chief of Police for Northfield.

Does Montpelier PD actually have adequate staffing to put out bait cars?

Like most state funded programs in Vermont, it's comically underfunded/understaffed so it really only exists enough to exist as a "box checking" activity for the state.

Expect nothing. I tried to go through the program in 2019 and they ghosted me for months only to tell me that they’d run out of funds long before my submission.

To be fair, that pretty much set the tone for living here. Getting ghosted and told “sorry, I can’t help you” after weekly check ins is pretty much the norm from state agencies, contractors, etc.

You’re not wrong. I’ve lived there long enough to know that you’re not wrong.

Well, Norwich university has a lot of pull there…

Northfield has a history of hiring problematic police chiefs. This guy’s best attribute so far is that he hasn’t fired his gun at a local business owned by someone he had a disagreement with. (That guy was two of three chiefs ago) He hasn’t been arrested for a DUI either (prior chief), so there’s that.

The messed up thing is that he's the least problematic police chief that Northfield has had over the years. The town seems to keep hiring these sorts of people - I'm going to go out on a limb and say the issue is with the select board.

I'm three years into living in Vermont and gave up on a lot of the foods I enjoyed pretty quickly - with German food being the most painful loss. Von Trapp's is good, but doesn't scratch the itch the places in Florida did - it's more expensive and has a more uptight feeling to it. I'd love some spaetzle, currywurst, and a doner kebab, but I find that I have to go out of state to get those things. I understand that you can get those things fairly reliably in Montreal - but haven't explored that yet.

Does Plattsburgh have airlines other than Allegiant's seasonal flights to Florida now?

St. Pete/Clearwater (PIE) in Florida whose only major airline is Allegiant is a bigger airport than Burlington.

Anywhere you want near Hartford, CT or Boston, MA. No such place exists in Vermont.

In my experience, it's something that comes from the ONE pizza place in your town that would fail within a month in any other part of the country. In reality, this place only survives due to a combination of a) the food has always been like this - why would the generations of locals want anything different because this is what pizza is to them b) the owner/owner's family includes or is connected to the town clerk (so there are strange oddly specific barriers for pizza shops to open up within that town) c) the nearest other option for pizza is a 20+ minute drive that will render that pizza soggy and nasty by the time you get it home.

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Within a few months, you give up on doing take out and start making your own or relying on frozen options because dining out/getting take out turns out to be a way to spend more money to get more hassles, thus defeating the purpose of take out/dining out - which is to make your life easier. Within a few months, you find this as an opportunity to make long deferred lifestyle changes because Vermont has effectively obliterated what you know about the world and has made it easier to live a life where you receive little to no joy out of food.

This is funny. When people from outside of Vermont ask me what it's like - I've found the most reliable way to describe it is "West Virginia on ice featuring special guest Bernie Sanders".

As long as you have a way of keeping corrosion under control, that should work well. I’d recommend not buying anything that’s been in Vermont for it’s 7-10 years on the road and buying something that old from a southern state and bringing it here to maximize its useful service life.

It was open yesterday when I drove it.

They have stores, delivery centers, and service centers elsewhere in the country. In those markets, they tend to be the dominant EV.