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Great answer Rick De Fabio! My answer is mostly just an extension of yours.I have lived in both; NH for 21 years total, and VT for 10 years. The government is easily the most recognizable difference, as Rick has pointed out.The next most easily recognized difference is that in VT the object above is called a “creemee” and in NH it’s called “soft-serve ice cream”. An unimportant difference as they’re made the same way and taste the same, but if you show up and are like “What’s a creemee?” here you go.The most IMPORTANT difference between the two is from the livability standpoint (having the bias of living in Chittenden County [$$$$$] for those 10 years). NH is hands-down significantly cheaper to live, if you have a good, steady job. As has been pointed out around the Internet, vehicle registration fees are more expensive in NH (we’re talking $700 vs $70) but the lack of state income tax alone more than makes up for it. Sales and state income (and often property, depending on where you live) tax make NH much easier to survive. This page helps outline the financial differences, which are HUGE. (One of just a couple reasons I left).A few other things are not often compared; VT puts many hoops in buying/selling a house (costly and take time) in the name of safety; VT paves at night <3, NH doesn’t; VT has a lot of bad, nay terrible drivers, NH gets a lot of out-of-state drivers (which is worse?); childcare is cripplingly expensive in VT although the flip side of this being that Chittenden County and surrounding counties have a lot of the best primary/secondary schools in the state; VT has a lot of farms and it often smells like rotten poop; NH has twice as many opioid deaths/year/capita, VT is densely saturated with marijuana.Afterthought: I do not intend for this to be crass; it is a merely a complaint about the social system in place in the state, and how unbecoming it is of Chittenden County. There are three social classes there: lower class, survivable; middle class, survival mode; upper class, mo money mo problems “damn why am I paying so much in taxes while my RS7/AMG S-Class/M760i is getting destroyed on these roads?”.

This has already happened to a degree with Vermont, with high taxes and lots of government, and a state going the other way, New Hampshire. The two states are next to each other, and have very similar demographics.Cultural differences...Vermont and New Hampshire, geographic twins, cultural aliensVermont vs. New Hampshirelong article on differences... Page on people.matinic.usEDIT: As a result of Joseph Boyle 's question, I took a closer look at Vermonts Income and sales taxes....and I was disgusted by what I saw.It looks like a lot of the tax burden gets paid by the working lower class and the bottom of the middle class. The taxes are not very progressive.A number of other states, like California, keep much of the state tax burden off the working poor and lower middle class. Vermont doesn't, either through philosophy or necessity. Example - Single person income tax rates -3.55 percent on the first $36,250 of taxable income.6.8 percent on taxable income between $36,251 and $87,850.(that rate is going to hit middle class people hard)7.8 percent on taxable income between $87,851 and $183,250And a Sales tax of 6.0%It looks like they have a morally ugly tax system that screws the working poor and lower middle class. This looks like they want to run the working poor out of the state.******How politically different are they ?New Hampshire has a long history of libertarian politics that don’t sync up with that of its New England neighbors; Vermont has a history of moderate communitarianism. While Vermont’s Constitution tilts towards the quasi-socialist with phrases such as “private property ought to be subservient to public uses when necessity requires it,” New Hampshire is the only state so suspicious of government itself that it includes as the tenth article of its Constitution a “right of revolution.”Tax levels different ?The right-wing Wheelabrator Foundation published A Comparative Study of the Fiscal Systems of New Hampshire andVermont, 1940–1974, and found that Vermont had the third-heaviest personal tax burden in the country while New Hampshire had the fourty-seventh.Add to this a 6% or more sales tax....The Vermont (VT) state sales tax rate is currently 6.0%. Depending on local municipalities, the total tax rate can be as high as 7%.Other, local-level tax rates in the state of Vermont are quite complex compared against local-level tax rates in other states. Vermont sales tax may also be levied at the city/county/school/transportation and SPD (special purpose district) levels.Vermont sales tax has numerous local taxing levels that must be monitored and maintained on a regular basis, it is complex and time consuming due to the volume of jurisdictions.>>> Vermont is listed in Kiplinger’s 2011 10 Tax-Unfriendly States for Retirees. A state sales tax of 9% is imposed on prepared foods, restaurant meals and lodging and 10% on alcoholic beverages served in restaurants. Businesses have a nightmare to maintain and track all the different nuances in the state sales tax code.Really bad news for people who like to enjoy restaurants.State Spending per capita, FY 2011Vermont 9,855New Hampshire 7,766A brief side by side comparison...Both are very white, educated (over - educated ?)Vermont 95.4% WhiteNew Hampshire 94.4% WhiteHigh School Degree Vermont 91% New Hampshire 91.2%Bachelor degree Vermont 33.8% New Hampshire 33.1%Vermont vs New HampshireGSP per capitaVermont 38,187New Hampshire 42,958New Hampshire creates 12.3% more value than Vermont.So here's the good news for all you socialists: education in Vermont results in high test scores !Vermont.gov - News Releases" November 26, 2013Vermont’s Reading and Mathematics Test Scores among the Best in the Nation on the National Assessment of Educational Progress"This is a great press release ! Let's look inside..." Vermont students historically score in the top 10 states in the nation, and this year was no exception. In eighth grade, only Massachusetts students scored higher than Vermont in reading and mathematics. In fourth grade reading, only Maryland, Massachusetts and New Hampshire scored higher. In fourth grade mathematics, only New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Minnesota outscored Vermont students. In comparison to the rest of the country, Vermont students were at least five percentage points higher and exceeded the national average by 11 percentage points in eighth grade mathematics. "Oops ! How did New Hampshire get in there as higher than Vermont on some things ?We can dig into the data and see the differences are very small..Vermont Grade 8 Mathhttp://nces.U.S. Department of Education/nationsreportcard/subject/publications/stt2013/pdf/2014465VT8.pdfNew Hampshire Grade 8 MathPage on ed.govSo all the higher taxes net out ....you pay higher taxes, you don't really get much for the higher taxes.Net assessment - "Democratic Socialism" state government doesn't do any better than libertarian leaning state government, (for the case of states with highly educated mostly white people) it just costs more tax money and slow economic growth.Socialism is probably sub-optimal for most developed nations.Or we can do bumper sticker style...Socialism : It's for losers******>> Now the other factors that make Norway work are cheap hydropower and oil.Actually, Norway and the US do something similar - they drill for oil.Huge entrepreneurial success ? That would be Israel.

As a Vermont-born American, I think Maine does have some advantages over VT in terms of living there. ME is a more geographically diverse state, for one; depending on where in the state you are, ME is a coastal state with beautiful shoreline and lighthouses aplenty, or a rugged, uncarved wilderness where you might run into Stephen King buying fish bait at the general store which makes up the entire town of Bumpkin`s Corner (I`m just dishing, that`s not a real town……I don`t think….). Therefore, an argument could be made it`s more interesting; it`s a bigger state, and if you live in one area, it wouldn`t be out of the question to take a vacation to the other area (coast to forest, or vice versa). Neither state is particularly urban, but ME at least has Portland, which has a population of 66,882 as of 2017, considerably bigger than VT`s biggest city, Burlington (42,239). So that`s something to consider if you like being around people sometimes.As far as cost of living and taxes and such, the two states are kind of mixed. VT has higher personal income tax, but ME has a higher corporate income tax. VT has a higher property tax, but ME has a higher sales tax. The minimum wage in ME is $11/hr, slightly higher than VT`s $10.78/hr. Neither state is a right-to-work state.Sorry to get all technical, I just had to throw that stuff in. Honestly, I love Vermont. I feel a stronger connection to it than Maine, but that could well be because my mom`s family is there. Vermont has great dairy and maple syrup, where Maine has seafood. Its mountains are overall smaller, but that`s good for me, because I`m not a big hiker; it seems like the Greens are more accessible to a wide array of outdoorsy folks. VT has some great skiing, as I`m sure ME does too, I just know about the skiing in VT. All in all, maybe VT is a better state to retire in. Its schools aren`t great, so raising kids might not be ideal, but every time I go to VT I just see all these upbeat aged hippies selling organic vegetables at farmer`s markets and whatnot, they all seem very chill and happy. Maine is much more New England in the sense that there is a noticeable gruffness all around you; it`s just the outer shell most likely, but some people don`t like that.It all boils down to where you find a home, really.State Comparison Tool