My point is you guys are irrational. Commercial development is ugly so you don't want that, you hate tourists and don't want people to rent out spaces to them to make money, and you don't want remote workers living here(and paying tax). Yet you also complain there are no good jobs to keep young people in the state and that housing is too expensive. You just want everything to stay the same but magical fairy dust to create good paying jobs and affordable housing, which is not going to happen

Same people who hate Airbnb want act 250 to make it impossible to build anything commercial and also hate high paid remote workers who live here. Everyone can't be a maple syrup maker

Is it third most expensive compared to average income or in actual dollars? To me it seems there's plenty of states where stuff is more expensive, but there's also way higher paid jobs there

I misread your initial comment

Ya those things you named are why there's so few residents

That clause says just compensation must be given

>The constitution has the takings clause, which says the government can't take people's stuff without paying them for it.

And what part of the constitution would that be?

The fact there's well under a million people in this whole state is why it doesn't look like NJ