Amazing, I was hoping to do a ride soon of the full length but I wasn't sure it was fully open. Now I can do that my next free weekend!

Have fun on the century, that sounds like a blast. You sound like someone I'd enjoy grabbing a beer with. If I lived in St. J I'd invite you to stay with us, but sadly I'm a couple towns away.

I would suggest looking at HipCamp. While they do have a lot of camping spots (as the name suggests), a lot of hosts also have tiny houses, buses, cabins, yurts, etc. to stay in. Check out Danville and Craftsbury in particular -- I've stayed in those areas before and you can probably find something cute and farm-y that's not too far off the trail.

Since it sounds like the ride is flexible on time, you could consider taking it slow, doing two 50 mile days, and booking a cabin or something in the Morrisville area, too.

If you do end up doing this, I highly recommend hitting up Kingdom Table in St J for lunch or dinner, then heading out of town to lodging. If you like craft beer they always have a great selection from Northern VT, and they're owned and operated by a few locals.

I biked a lot of the LVRT last year, but at the end of the fall it wasn't quite finished yet -- a few bridges were still out of commission, and they were still surfacing a lot of the trail around Joe's Pond and Craftbury. Does anyone know if they've finished yet? The site is pretty light on updates.

Tax the crap out of them, for sure.

But given how much of a housing crisis exists right now, I wonder if it makes sense to enact a 1-2 year ban on AirBnB rentals in the state as a temporary emergency measure, then figure out a taxation scheme as a long-term disincentive. Folks who want to buy starter homes or rent in the state need relief now, and unfortunately the STR slumlords causing this problem already benefit from a number of tax loopholes, so I'm not fully confident it will fix the crisis. Surely not until next tax season, when the tax bill comes due.

I concur, non-5G phone on T-Mobile and my partner has a non-5G phone on Verizon. Sometimes her phone gets coverage when I don't... but I'm much more likely to have some coverage when we travel around.

Most people suck at driving, unfortunately. That's (one reason of many) why building an entire country on the assumption that everyone drives is a shitty idea.

Mind sharing your heat pump and solar setups? How cold does it usually get at night where you are? Any battery to help with the long nights?

$0 is very impressive in the northern hemisphere with no backup heat source, based on my knowledge. Sounds like you're living with the setup I want!

I have baseboard water heating running on propane as well. At 65 downstairs, 63 upstairs, I'm running around $150-200/mo so far this year on average for the propane. So your price doesn't sound totally crazy. Around 2000sf as well.

My house is relatively well insulated (redone in the last decade), albeit with lots of windows and old bones. If you own, consider improving your windows and insulation -- at $500+/mo, I suspect the improvements will pay for themselves quite quickly.

Even without looking at mountainous regions, the lake effect regions -- Buffalo NY, the UP of Michigan, NY's North Country -- get insane amounts of snow. But they're also relatively warm, for snowy regions, and the snow melts pretty quick, even after multi-foot snowfalls. So maybe Vermont ranks well because it gets a decent amount of snow that sticks around for a long time? I still don't believe VT gets more snow than Leadville or Silverton or even Tahoe.

Nice try, Elon

Just like nobody lives near elevated lines because it's too noisy, right? And all of the cut-and-cover near-ground-level subways like make life intolerable nearby, and they're totally not the most valuable real estate in the entire city?

Or put a 7-style El through a park. Whichever is cheaper/easier. Maybe one of us should run for mayor with these brilliant ideas?

Gotcha. If neither comes up, hopefully the car gets towed immediately!

How can they track the offences for a car with fake/temp plates? Is the VIN visible somewhere on the exterior?

How does this car not get booted? Seems like an easy impound and $$$ for NYPD, either from fees or from selling the car if it isn't claimed

Good point. You can do a lot on foot, including go to the co-op, but it's not quite close enough to downtown to justify most days. And the street crossing by the co-op kind of sucks. If they added a back way to the co-op for bikes and pedestrians, preferably off the rail trail, it would massively improve my quality of life.

And of course if you want to ever go on a hike, check out other mountain biking trails, etc., you're totally dependent on a car. Not that different from most US cities, but you couldn't use public transit even if you wanted to here.

I live in Littleton. If you enjoy outdoor activities like skiing, mountain biking, hiking, or gravel biking, you'll probably like it up here.

If you enjoy clubbing, bar hopping, ubering around big cities between fancy restaurants and cocktail places, museums, or any other stuff that's exclusive to big cities: it might not be quite your speed.

FWIW I'm not sure why so many people claim it's totally car centric up here. I've lived in plenty of places around the country with larger populations, and Littleton is among the most walkable because the town is dense with housing and there are ample sidewalks. And the trail networks by Littleton, Bethlehem, and Franconia are top-notch, rivaling trail networks on the edge of much larger cities. You can bike to a lot of stuff in Littleton; maybe a bit less in Bethlehem.

I'm not sure if you'll want to live here forever, but it's a great place to spend a couple of years and build up some outdoorsy hobbies. It could get lonely if you don't have a partner who will move with you, though.

Feel free to DM me if you have any other questions.