[Sherylcatmom]

Originally Posted by yeajustme

Rutland offers you nothing, what do you bring to the table? You helping by donating to all the fundraisers? Volunteer at the Mission or Salvation Army?
Offer to tutor or 'bigbrother' at the schools you say are so awful?
"if you arent a part of the solution, you're a part of the problem" so saith Bob Marley.

AMEN!!! (Not something I say often.)

Originally Posted by yeajustme

Im proud to say Im 8th generation VTer and cant wait to get back home.

I hope you can return soon.

[western mass and love it]

Rutland to me seems like small town America,never once have i seen any sort of criminal element or the things that people on this board write about. Maybe i am just blind to it or it just doesn't stick out to me.

[Sherylcatmom]

Originally Posted by western mass and love it

Rutland to me seems like small town America,never once have i seen any sort of criminal element or the things that people on this board write about. Maybe i am just blind to it or it just doesn't stick out to me.

Even living here it's just very small city stuff. One night years ago, my husband's van was unlocked in the driveway. Someone took the change out of the ashtray.

Compare with a different place, same van: We were visiting my sister on the North Shore of Boston and the transmission went. We had it towed to a shop. One night someone broke a window, broke a sliding door, took the stereo & CDs, etc. Thousands in damage.

It's not that Rutland has no crime. There's some drug-related crime and other issues. It's just not like the crime in any of the "real" cities I've lived, at least not so far in my 14 years and my husband's 30+ years here.

[rg3465]

I have a chance to work a government job as an auditor of the GE plant in Rutland, and by reading some of these articles it make me a little nervous about moving over there. I live in Germany right now and have been overseas for the last 20 yrs and I'm originally from Philadelphia, PA so I know what rough neighborhoods are like and I always thought of Vermont as a nice quiet state where you can enjoy the great outdoors and have lots of things to do. I'm also worried if the money I make a year at this job is enough to survive there (It's around $60,000 a yr) due to the taxes and high costs of utilities, can someone out there calm my nerves please.

[arctichomesteader]

Rutland is nowhere near as bad as Philadelphia with crime. $60,000 is plenty to live on provided you budget wisely. Conserve power and I'd suggest using a wood stove to help with heating costs. You might consider living outside the city, in nearby West Rutland, Proctor, Clarendon, Mendon, Pittsford, Tinmouth, etc. More quiet, rural and less crime (though with Clarendon you wouldn't want to be right by the airport area, nor would you want to be right on route 7, route 4, etc., either).