Weather forcing people to move?

vtsnowedin · Feb 28, 2015

Roy Jackson: Your just going to have to suck it up cupcake. The last two winters have been normal or even a bit of underachievers.
On the other hand one of my daughters has moved south to Georgia and another one is looking to move down to the DC area. Those are not climate related but work related. You can put up with a lot in Vermont or Michigan if you have a good paying job but if the money is tight heating oil and snow plowing expenses get old in a hurry.

RoyJackson · Feb 28, 2015

vtsnowedin said:
Roy Jackson: Your just going to have to suck it up cupcake. The last two winters have been normal or even a bit of underachievers.
On the other hand one of my daughters has moved south to Georgia and another one is looking to move down to the DC area. Those are not climate related but work related. You can put up with a lot in Vermont or Michigan if you have a good paying job but if the money is tight heating oil and snow plowing expenses get old in a hurry.

I'm paid pretty well...no complaints there. My plan was move to West Virginia since I had been accepted for a federal job there. Wife wanted to move to VT and since I also got a job offer from Vermont Castings (who also paid for the move), we ended up here. Wifey was raised in Plainfield VT and has kin here...but she's ready to pack it in too.
Like I wrote...it's actually pretty unlikely. I do love the area...taxes are a killer though. And, like anything else, one does learn to acclimate themselves. I do think VT is getting a bit more conservative since we have an aging population....and I hear a lot of people complaining about the lefties in Montpelier. Who knows...might turn out to be a good state again!

Country Geek · Feb 28, 2015

The old saw I hear from people I know who moved here from up north (which is a lot including my parents when I was a baby) is that they strapped a snow shovel to their car, drove south, and stopped the first time someone asked them "what's that?"

CalG · Feb 28, 2015

Two sorts of people in this world.

Those that like winter, and those that don't

I'm going skiing tomorrow!

Oh, If you don't like Vermont winters, you can always move to New Hampshire! ;-)

vtsnowedin · Feb 28, 2015

RoyJackson said:
I do love the area...taxes are a killer though. And, like anything else, one does learn to acclimate themselves. I do think VT is getting a bit more conservative since we have an aging population....and I hear a lot of people complaining about the lefties in Montpelier. Who knows...might turn out to be a good state again!

Well when a few more Obamacare/ Vt health connect bills come due a lot of Vermont's young people may become conservative well before the usual time. I see a glimmer of hope.

chad22 · Feb 28, 2015

I like where I live right now. But I don't like the weather in the winter.

I wouldn't mind buying some land somewhere warm one day and move there in a travel trailer for winter. Then come back for spring and summer.

Who knows. I may like the warmer place even better and just stay there. lol

Pirate · Feb 28, 2015

Forced me right to TN. After living in ME and MI, and FL, this climate seems to be the best.

newbury · Feb 28, 2015

The "move south because you cannot stand the winter" has been going on since time began. It accelerated greatly when a/c became feasible.
When I lived in northern Vermont I could always put on warmer clothes so I could go outside and "do stuff".
Down in Mississippi there are a few days a year I can't take off enough clothes to go outside and do "stuff".

If I had my wishes I would be typing this from my retirement site in Northern Vermont where the temps got down to 29 degrees below Fahrenheit last week. But SWMBO's family is in Mississippi so I'm typing from where the temp is supposed to be 73 degrees next Tuesday.

That's only a 102 degrees difference

RoyJackson · Mar 1, 2015

CalG said:
Oh, If you don't like Vermont winters, you can always move to New Hampshire! ;-)

Might, actually...I work in New Hampshire

Bird · Mar 1, 2015

I thought all the northern retirees go to Florida, North Carolina, or Alabama. And all the northern folks who are still working are moving to the Dallas/Ft. Worth/Denton area of Texas. The traffic around here is just incredible and the road and home construction going on is mind boggling; both huge expensive apartment buildings and big expensive homes.