City slickers are using VT as their virus hideout

I'd like to think that letter is common sense to most.

Excellent letter from Town of J burg . THAT My friends is serious SERVANT LEADERSHIP !  Bravo !!!L


Exactly the style of leadership we should be seeing across the nation ....WE  is ALL of us ...it is an American problem .Americans pull together not huddle in fear .

Nicely stated!

The shit's getting real up here! This gentleman is a local that had not been going anywhere except for groceries, the virus is not only out there, it's here... Please be safe everyone!

https://poststar.com/news/local/north-creek-man-was-careful-showed-no-alarming-symptoms-but-is-now-fighting-coronavirus-in/article_ae7045bc-33ca-5aa1-b74f-daab3b4365d8.html

This NYTimes article is wild. Rich people who want... sympathy, I guess?.... for their decision to flee NYC and ride out the pandemic in tropical paradises:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/11/style/they-fled-the-coronavirus-now-theyre-in-scenic-limbo.html

Karma 🙄 a hell of their own making .

With NYC beginning to recover and their hospitals returning to normal, do all the block-the-thruway people agree that we are all in this together now?

mm

We're in it together as long as we stay apart

Hey, Camp, did the missus end up going down to the city to help? I heard the city has been sending city income tax bills to all the out of town nurses. Can you confirm?

MC2 5678F589 wrote

This NYTimes article is wild. Rich people who want... sympathy, I guess?.... for their decision to flee NYC and ride out the pandemic in tropical paradises:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/11/style/they-fled-the-coronavirus-now-theyre-in-scenic-limbo.html

Yea hard to feel too bad for that.  I am getting this right? ... You snuck under the wire before travel was restricted and now you are stuck somewhere.  Did you think the pandemic would blow over in a few weeks?

Brownski wrote

Hey, Camp, did the missus end up going down to the city to help? I heard the city has been sending city income tax bills to all the out of town nurses. Can you confirm?

No she never went. Like I said her Gram is what kept her from going. She has a couple friends that went down so I'll see what they have to say.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/black-professor-n-y-plates-vermont-told-leave-state-police-n1206846

CNBC article talks about impacts on Adk and Catskills among other places:

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/22/as-cabin-fever-sets-in-americans-vacation-habits-are-changing.html

This issue emerges in many different ways.

A friend of mine is the director and co-owner of a kid's summer camp up here in the Hinterlands. He is American, from Rochester area, but chose to spend the winter up here living with his Hinterlandian girlfriend. When the lockdown hit, he decided to stay and is now kind of stuck. Overnight summer camps have been shut down for the summer, so it is helpful for him to be here and keep an eye on things, do maintenance, plan for the future, etc. If he goes back to the Excited States, he won't be allowed back into Canada until the border is opened up again.

So, point is he's been driving around our town lately in a vehicle with NY plates and told me yesterday that he's been getting dirty looks and snarky comments from locals. I told him that he should get a bumper sticker that says "I'm stuck here!"

Sick Bird Rider wrote

This issue emerges in many different ways.

A friend of mine is the director and co-owner of a kid's summer camp up here in the Hinterlands. He is American, from Rochester area, but chose to spend the winter up here living with his Hinterlandian girlfriend. When the lockdown hit, he decided to stay and is now kind of stuck. Overnight summer camps have been shut down for the summer, so it is helpful for him to be here and keep an eye on things, do maintenance, plan for the future, etc. If he goes back to the Excited States, he won't be allowed back into Canada until the border is opened up again.

So, point is he's been driving around our town lately in a vehicle with NY plates and told me yesterday that he's been getting dirty looks and snarky comments from locals. I told him that he should get a bumper sticker that says "I'm stuck here!"

That’s really ignorant of them and it only takes about a half second of thought and a smidgeon of imagination to avoid. I made this point on TGR when many of the Vermonters started including a snotty comment about seeing out of state plates every time they parked at a trailhead. It means nothing. When I lived in VT for six months I had NY plates and an Alaska license. And not for nothing, every time I drive up to Albany I see plenty of VT plates so that’s not any guarantee of being virus free or anything either.

Brownski wrote

That’s really ignorant of them and it only takes about a half second of thought and a smidgeon of imagination to avoid. I made this point on TGR when many of the Vermonters started including a snotty comment about seeing out of state plates every time they parked at a trailhead. It means nothing. When I lived in VT for six months I had NY plates and an Alaska license. And not for nothing, every time I drive up to Albany I see plenty of VT plates so that’s not any guarantee of being virus free or anything either.

Totally agree, Brownski. If you don't know people's story, don't be critical. It is right up there with mask-shaming. Things would be much better if everybody tried to be a little nicer to one another. It also doesn't take much of brain to figure out that a car with US plates is here because the person crossed due to essential travel or lives here. There were reports earlier of people getting harangued because they had Ontario plates and plate frames with southern dealer names on them. My car has a Toronto area dealer plate frame and I considered removing it. But I didn't and have had no issues.

I recently saw a pickup with Minnesota plates parked at the grocery store. That would be an unusual sight at the best of time. Wonder what his story was?

License plates are cultural markers and convey a certain status.....of location, which can be used for inclusion or exclusion.

You New Yorkahs just happen to live in an incredibly culturally, geographically, and just generally diverse state.  And a very large one. So more people blend in when you are in your home state (even if you are hours away from your “home) and when you are out of state, there are many more of you to stick out. Vermont is like a tiny monoculture by comparison.

I see VT plates here, on some pretty fancy cars.  Doctors and lawyers trying to save on car insurance?

Maybe it's obvious, this issue triggers me.

Harvey wrote

I see VT plates here, on some pretty fancy cars.  Doctors and lawyers trying to save on car insurance?

Maybe it's obvious, this issue triggers me.

You’re probably pre-disposed to seeing the green plates.

And, I’m sorry to say......and don’t want to further trigger you.....but in the hierarchy of out of state plates, yours would rank almost universally low 🤷🏼‍♂️ across wide swathes of the country. Again......very sorry.