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My wife (trans), my son, and myself (queer) are considering a huge move up to Vermont. We currently live near Savannah, Georgia. My wife has been a truck driver for 20 years and was recently assaulted at her job and had gay slurs used against her, I'm a retired/disabled former DoD/DoN and I've had my life threatened, and our son is currently in the 2nd grade and has been bullied relentlessly for simply liking his rainbow glasses. Our son was also assaulted by another student in the 1st grade for speaking out against a bully picking on another child who is Latinx and speaks primarily Spanish. The local high school's mascot is "The Rebel," yeah…that kind of rebel. I'm just burnt out. I'm surrounded by red hats and it's exhausting.
Both my wife and I have lived in Georgia for the majority of our lives, but we no longer feel welcome in our own home communities. Basically, I'm asking if Vermont is a good place and what sections are most accepting. We really would like to be close to the border with Canada, so I know part of that is NEK, I just don't know anything about the communities or people.
If and when we do move, we are looking to buy a home, with or without renovation needs, but I'd really like a basement. The farthest north I've visited is Connecticut, but my father was born in New Hampshire and my Grandfather was from Machias, Maine. I know I most likely have extended family up there somewhere I've never met, so if you have the last name of Gendron, reach out!
Thanks yall.
If you're from a big city like Savanah, consider central or western MA! Vermont is very rural and cold.
Hello and I'm so sorry that your family is in this position. It's heartbreaking to need to move for your safety in this way. Some basics- Vermont is a lovely place to live overall. Challenges are housing and employment- lots of open jobs, but low wages and perhaps not in the desired sectors. Housing is nearly impossible right now. And Gendron is a super common last name in Maine! Southern Maine is also a nice spot, with similar challenges.
Child care is pretty expensive here and in short supply, generally. School districts are struggling financially and it's looking like ours is going to be making severe cuts, possibly to music/athletics and the already inadequate transportation services.
These are the main issues I wish I had known about before moving here with very young children.
It's been over a decade since I've lived in the NEK (lived there for 20 years)but I sincerely don't recommend northern small towns for LGBTQIA people based on my time there. It's very removed from the world and isn't open to evolving. It also has a bunch of issues that will complicate your life due to the remoteness, lack of resources, cost of living and weather. To give some perspective I've been in NC for the last decade and despite my love for the scenery and familiar faces, I wouldn't return to the NEK unless I had to
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All the
aside, as someone who has lived in both states, the idea of relocating from Georgia to Vermont sight unseen is completely batshit. Compared to Vermont, Georgia might as well be the Garden of Eden when it comes to QOL stuff like housing prices, quality of housing stock, infrastructure, services, climate, roads, geography, culture, taxes, I could go on almost infinitely, the only thing VT does better is snowsports. There are like two towns in VT that are more liberal than Savannah and they're both full.
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Vermont no have black people
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Thats not true.
Dead frostbitten mayos in the snow turn black.
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What's the difference between a white person and a rotting banana?
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The Northeast attracts lolbertarians and hippie-types like the Northwest does, but the weather prevents the place from becoming overwhelmed with homeless people and the housing prices filter out riff-raff.
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Burlington is absolutely overrun with homeless.
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To the same degree as Portland?
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For a city less than a tenth the size of Portland, it has very similar issues, yes.
(For those unaware, Burlington has around 45,000 people and it's far and away the largest city in VT.)
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but they need to be close to CANADA!! the queer mecca, just incase they have to ESCAPE drmps wrath to NOVA SCOTIA just like in acclaimed vidya DUSTBORN!!!!
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Yeah it's fricking wild they would even consider this without at least visiting the darned place. Plane tickets aren't that expensive, go for a weekend.
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A flight is expensive to this poorcel
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never said i wouldn't
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No, surely it's not the small percentage of people worldwide who agree with me that are the ones who are out of touch. It's the people who live in rural areas that are breaking from the consensus worldview, and by consensus I mean among people who are on the right side of history.
The time has come for the Necromaster. The unleashing of the fourth joker's card. The arrival of The Great Milenko
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Every time I hear about the "global majority", it's about how they shit themselves to death or got shoved in the locker by America. Just saying.
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Progressives would be way cooler if they were openly chauvinist and imperialistic
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Orwell saw it clearly and tried to warn us. It was not enough for Winston to be silenced, he must first come to love Big Borther and agree he deserved to be eliminated for the good of The Party.
Progressives can't use hard power to enforce cultural change, it's against their very nature. Instead they insist on using soft power but also refuse to do anything to win hearts and minds.
The time has come for the Necromaster. The unleashing of the fourth joker's card. The arrival of The Great Milenko
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Because it's a womanly political worldview and women only know how to nag people to death until they concede and to keep access to the crumbs.
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That's just neocons
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Neocons just do cultural imperialism for money. Progs would do it out of principle
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You're God darn right. !neocon
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Why not just leave them to their own devices?
Those savages wants to kill each other? Have fun and don't come any closer or we'll frick you up.
Want our help? Here are our demands: you become a liberal democracy or else.
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Its like watching a grandma getting mugged by a guy with brass knuckles while you have 3 firearms on you. Plus, it gives your military good practical experience. Dont really see any downsides tbh
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Okay fair enough
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they can't do this because they're low-t wimps. Probably bc their ideology requires on the government doing everything.
/pol/ chuds are /pol/ chuds but in-shape men are overwhelmingly right-leaning.
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For the uninitiated, that means she pretends to be a kid. For sexual purposes.
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I lowkey hate it when grown women call people daddy.
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I high key hate it
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i literally have old man peepees all over my face and I dont call them daddy
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Hey
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Sometimes it's just code not wanting to work
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!latinx
Over/under this was a Mexican or other Latinx making fun of him?
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SPEAKING OUT
Literally nobody who doesn't deserve a punch to the face uses that phrase.
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Oh no, I broke my glasses, my parents will be so mad at me. What can I say that they'll not blame me for it?
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surprising, Savannah is incredibly gay.
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They're probably wildly insufferable as a family unit.
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The bio and OP remove all doubt.
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I think the only "industry" in the whole town is that goofy art school
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Massive port
Some gas businesses too
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tourism, so there's plenty of bar jobs for those art failures.
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I will take any opportunity I find to post this.
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why does this even exist lol
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Japs have a weird fascination with oddball parts of American culture
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liking rainbow glasses is fine and no one should be bullied it.
liking red hats, though? you should be literally murdered for it.
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Does this mean she continued to pump after weaning her child so she wouldn't stop lactating and the fricking
wife
suckles milk from her tiddies, b-word?
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!metashit !ranchers who is your pet cow? this is my pet cow!
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Did you photoshop that all at once or was it an iterative process?
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It is better for the magic of the pics of Shreddlena and me remain a secret
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Lol Id imagine its more that he is being bullied for his weirdo parents
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The thought of a Gigahon trans truck driver is horrifying. Imagine the fear the lot lizards feel when the Blahaj Livery Truck rolls in
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Neighbors definitely be fricking him in the lot. Truck drives will bone anything
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The only one in any tangible danger is the child, and the source of the danger is the parents.
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Ahhh, foids raised on Tumblr are having children now.
Swing HARDER, pendulum.
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There is absolutely nowhere on Reddit (except maybe The Great Awakening) where stupider, sadder, scareder, or crazier comments consistently get upboats and support than this place you linked. You might think, Hey look! A place where women aren't all sucking
peen! Weird! But then you find out that they are scared of 
peen, and believe that in a couple years, women who don't assimilate and get a peen themselves will be locked up in suspended cages, let down from their gibbets only to be repeatedly viciously r*ped and denied STEM jobs.
That place is like /r/drama if everyone here felt scared for their lives, and could only find possibly recourse in demanding mayocide and bussy. Swap our memes for 'white-female ethnosexstate now' and 'kill all men before they kill all women' and you have a pretty fair idea of their topics.
And that's where it gets interesting: they're unironically probussycide, unironically antifemayocide. Truly, /r/drama has its antithesis.
And believe me: it is dangerous.
Snapshots:
https://old.reddit.com/r/vermont/comments/1iol1ax/considering_a_drastic_move/:
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If you're from a big city like Savanah:
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Hello and I'm so sorry that your family is in this position:
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The thing you really need to consider is our weather, especially in the winter, and also the cost of housing here and lack of housing. Vermont is one of the more expensive states in the country, and our property taxes are insane.:
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Child care is pretty expensive:
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It's been over a decade since I've lived in the NEK:
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