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SlytherinTargaryen t1_iva8ggu wrote

Reply to comment by Turbulent_Bicycle368 in Thinking about moving to VT as I do my remote grad school. Also work remote. What’s a quiet area but not all the way podunck? by [deleted]

Springfield is having a massive drug problem. Someone got shot in the back of the head and dumped on a backroad recently, and the townies are saying it’s because they pissed off the wrong dealers.

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Turbulent_Bicycle368 t1_iva9rfb wrote

There was a suspected murder in the Danby/ Mt Tabor area a year or so ago. Gun shot victim left face down in a snow bank. Otherwise a very quiet area.

Cape Cod is considered quiet by a lot of people and has had a drug problem for years. Hyannis has a decent amount of violent crime.

It’s all concerning but if you are coming from a large city your definition of quiet is probably different than if you live in Andover.

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SlytherinTargaryen t1_ivac753 wrote

VT native who has also lived in Manhattan. I’ve had two family members and some friends move out of Springfield, right around the time there was a third lockdown at the local grade school because an active shooter had walked across grounds. (Drug house next door.) I know city violence and I know small town violence, and Springfield has escalated far beyond small-town skirmishes. One of my friends literally had her small daughters in active shooter lockdowns twice in one school year.

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