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09-25-2018, 08:49 AM #126
Hmmmmm.......
So, is Bolton Valley worth visiting? I just checked on some condo prices there. Very affordable. Nice place to park yourself near Stowe.
Is the place financially viable?
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09-25-2018, 09:02 AM #127
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09-25-2018, 12:39 PM #131Registered User
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09-25-2018, 12:53 PM #132Registered User
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The distance isn’t terrible (35-40 minute drive?) but if frequent trips to Stowe were the goal the access road is what would make me think twice. It’s paved and maintained by the town and generally isn’t *that* bad but is really good at getting out-of-staters without snow tires stuck. The new owners seem to really be trying to breathe new life into the place, though it’s family owned which means no deep corporate pockets.
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09-25-2018, 02:00 PM #133Banned
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09-25-2018, 06:00 PM #134
I found the property taxes in upstate NY to be less than here in VT. I lived in Onondaga County (Syracuse area) and Saratoga County (SSPrings) in upstate NY for a total of 13 years. Because I served in combat, I got a property tax break from the state of NY. My effective property tax rate in NY was much lower than here in VT. Example: house in Saratoga assessed at $465K and had property taxes of just under $8K. condo in Essex Junction assessed at $329K and I only own from the sheetrock in; property taxes are $7.4K. Schools were better, roads were better, services were better in the part of NY I lived in.
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09-25-2018, 06:29 PM #135Registered User
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$15 minimum wage, wouldn't you think it would significantly raises prices for goods and services? On the surface it sounds good, what am I missing? I live in Hampton Roads area in Virginia. Tons of jobs here - just need to be committed and invest in yourself and your profession. Welding apprentice, working in shipyards, making easily $20+ an hour. No background in it needed - they will teach you.
I'm still having a hard time wrapping my mind around entry level jobs providing living wages?
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09-25-2018, 06:37 PM #136
Welcome to the land of Bernie Sanders
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09-25-2018, 06:39 PM #137
God bless the downstate economy.
Property taxes are still fucked up in NY. There's a lot of downstate refugees that bought farms and acreage in the 90s and beyond for nothing, but are now being forced to sell because of the tax bill. You're forced to raise crops or animals for a break.
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09-25-2018, 06:42 PM #138Registered User
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As a former American investment banker, I call bullshit on this whole proverb. There is no illegal activity and no one is being conned. Fake news.
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09-25-2018, 06:56 PM #139Banned
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Goods, not really. We don't make anything. Services, not really. What it means is the folks at the very top would have to take a cut. Reading "The Four" right now. Service based companies like Amazon make 100x the profit per employee as GM did. The employees make shit. All the gain goes to the top few. Service based economies are hyper wealth consolidators where as GM was the ideal company in the 20th century, employees made money too. Amazon is a beast and only a handful get insanely wealthy. A federal minimum changes that paradigm. It make service industry jobs, the bedrock of the new economy, viable. Plus your giving money to people who are gonna spend it locally and immediately, instead of Bezos types, or the Jamie Diamonds of the world hiding their wealth off shore, or exercising the loopholes provided by the feds to effectively pay a very low tax rate as compared to the middle.
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09-25-2018, 07:29 PM #140Registered User
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yes
and yes
I graduated 2 years ago, out of state tuition is a bit asinine no doubt. I would not have been able to afford school without significant financial help from a relative.
One thing I'll say about the money is there's no mystery as to where it's going, the investments made to the infrastructure alone in just my time there were impressive to say the least. The dorms I lived in as a freshman are gone, replaced by a huge new freshman dorm with dining hall inside and connected to library, new STEM building, business school addition, and new athletic complex is not far off. I would generally agree with all Boreas' statement, however the business school (somewhat recently the "Grossman School of Business") is starting to make a name for itself, been doing pretty well ranking wise in the last couple years and good placement from talking to friends.
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09-25-2018, 07:31 PM #141
Both daughters are considering UVM as student athletes. One is interested in biology/physicians assistant, the other daughter is interested in environmental science. We have been up there on visits and have friends in the area. They do love Burlington, the campus and program/coaches. But reading all the negatives on this thread, I was starting to worry about the next 8 years of their lives up there.
Thank you mags for your comments.....appreciate your honesty. Lots to consider.
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09-25-2018, 07:42 PM #142
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09-25-2018, 09:09 PM #144
Recent grads like EOB and Peruvian's daughter obviously have more detailed beta but as a parent of a HS senior in full college search mode I would have no issue sending her to uvm if it were on her radar. Unless your kid is an Ivy League or equivalent applicant the difference between uvm and a few hundred other schools is negligible as far as I can tell. Sure, if your kid has a specific major in mind out of HS (engineering, STEM etc.) there may be better choices but for a general major uvm will serve you just as well as any. No question it is a much more $ state school than other states but if you live here, it is still significantly cheaper than sending your kid to the majority of comparable (or less) out of state schools. Plenty of my friends are grads and have excellent, stable well paying jobs, many here locally in the BTV area.
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09-26-2018, 06:15 AM #145Registered User
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It hasn't gone bankrupt in over a decade at this point, and the family running it now is the same family that founded it and successfully ran it for decades (albeit a younger generation). There's a lot of fun low-to-medium-angle tree skiing, as well as some stuff that gets a bit steeper if you know where to look. It doesn't have the variety of steep lines that Mt. Mansfield does, but it doesn't have the same competition for powder, either.
When I lived there, there was a pretty good crew of people living at the mountain. Some were employees, some had picked up condos during one of the bankruptcies in the late 90s (for a year or so, I believe they may have been the best real estate deal in greater Burlington), and some had found their way to the end of the road otherwise; everyone enjoyed playing outdoors. The skin-out-the-back-door aspect is f***ing awesome, and the base elevation is high enough that you can usually ski well after lifts stop turning. The mountain biking is pretty good, too, even if they aren't currently offering lift access.
The drive into Burlington isn't horrible, especially if your Burlington destination is near the interstate (or is actually South Burlington / Williston). Getting to the North End kinda sucks, but that's more about Vermont/Burlington's inability to build the Circ than about Bolton itself.
The access road itself, as noted, is not bad at all if you have snow tires or are on a Vespa (unless you get stuck below someone who doesn't, as also noted).
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09-26-2018, 06:21 AM #146
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09-26-2018, 06:30 AM #147
*sigh*
Outside looking in. If you can’t imagine struggling to survive and working 60hrs a week no matter what I say you’d still scratch your head and say “gee, I dunno...”
No job in America should be allowed to pay below a livable wage. If you can’t afford to pay your employees a living wage, you don’t deserve to be in business. Go to India and start a brick making debt farm, all the cool capitalists are doing it.
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09-26-2018, 07:33 AM #148Banned
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QFT. There are a LOT of restaurants in Vt, specifically around the gold towns that would die. Almost all of them suck anyway. The joints that pay for good cooks and chefs would finally be appreciated, and the public, largely ignorant to what good food is, would not have to roll the dice on trying to figure out the difference. The play now is to exploit your cooks, turn them and burn them out, hire new ones for the next season while the "Manager" sits in his office creating fake user names and pumping yelp up with phony reviews. Yes, that is what they do. Look at Craigs list in Vt. The same places hiring constantly for the same jobs. On the P and L, labor is the only cost they feel they can move, but they won't realize they are over-staffed with untrained drunks and addicts and carrying too much staff does not allow them to expand and contract with the seasons. The right 3 guys can bang out hundreds of plates when they have to, and still enjoy almost full time hours when they are only seeing 30-40 covers a night. That, long term, make the business more viable, and more valuable. Retail....Same.
Sorry for the drift...
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09-26-2018, 08:40 AM #149Registered User
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Rather than increasing minimum wages, I propose a cap on the pay gap between the top salary and lowest. Essentially, if the highest paid person exceeds 100x of the lowest, the company is taxed at at much higher rate. You then take the added tax revenue and funnel it back into healthcare, education, infrastructure. It’s insane that the CEO of Fletcher Allen took in over 2 million in compensation when the lowest Admin Asst took in 24,000.
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09-26-2018, 08:41 AM #150
Possible move to Burlington, VT area looking for BETA.
Livable wage is huge on a number of fronts and one I find highly important is how it correlates to staff morale and productivity. Our company is realizing that paying recent college grads high 30s for entry level jobs still leaves them struggling when they have to cover Boston rents on top of student loan debt. I know min wage is set at the state level but Boston is a struggle under $20/hr for many. Unless you consider a room share in a shitty apartment and a long commute livable.
Peruvian, when does your daughter graduate and, if post class of 2020, she have any baby sitting skills?Uno mas
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