You can take your gun. You just can't take your rifle.
Though the way Canada is heading, they will probably confiscate your gun as well.
Posted on 07/04/2017 5:15:12 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
BEEBE PLAIN, Vt. (CBSMiami) – A historic home for sale in New England is getting a lot of attention, but not for its size or beauty. Step inside and you can visit another country, just by walking down the hall.
“This is the stairway that leads to the Canadian apartments,” said Brian DeMoulin, who inherited the home 30 years ago.
You heard him right. His house is literally in two places at once: Beebe Plain, Vermont, and Stanstead, Quebec, Canada.
He even has tape on the floor in the upstairs room indicates approximately where the border runs through it.
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Jane and Bernie might give it a look. No telling when they might have to make a quick exit.
Doing his taxes each year must be a bear.
That is to be expected but what about income taxes! Be a bit of a stickee wicket that!
I’ve been up there several times on my way to visit my aunt.Interesting place...several buildings,including the public library,literally situated on the border.There’s a stretch of a road there called Canusa Street (”Canusa” meaning Canada/USA) which constitutes the border.Cars in the driveways on one side have Vermont plates,cars on the other side have Quebec plates.US Border patrol always in sight...the RCMP is sometimes in sight.
DeMoulin has dual citizenship, but that perk won’t come along with the deed.
And there is no avoiding property taxes. Both the U.S. and Canada will come calling.
This sounded like a pretty good place until they brought THAT up...
“There’s a stretch of a road there called Canusa Street (”Canusa” meaning Canada/USA) which constitutes the border.Cars in the driveways on one side have Vermont plates,cars on the other side have Quebec plates.”
I just went to Google maps to check out images of that road. Bernie signs on the Vermont side. I’m guessing the Canadian side sympathizes.
When I was a Bishop’s University student (in the neighbouring Eastern Townships of Quebec) back in the late 1980s, I heard a story of a few students who bought a decent load of relatively cheap booze in Vermont to take back up into Quebec. As they were heading back, they saw a farmer’s field right near the border with no one in sight. One of them figured that they could grab the booze, run over the border on foot from there through the field and avoid paying the duty and taxes. They were able to do this without being immediately caught.
However, about a couple of days later, the cops showed up at their place because the farmer actually did see them running across his field, so he alerted the cops and noted the licence plate of the car they came up to his property in.
And you can’t take your gun to the bathroom? FU!
I get to Vermont pretty regularly and in the last couple of years I've noticed that a huge percentage of the cars I see have Bernie stickers.And those plates are usually on Subaru wagons and Volvos...if ya catch my drift.
I’m guessing the Canadian side sympathizes.
It's Quebec...French.I've always been under the impression that Quebec is rather leftist.
So IOW it was all about taxation to the Canadian authorities? No concern about an illegal border crossing?
The taxes were probably a main thing, but probably also an illegal border crossing as well (that issue or concern probably not on the same sort of scale as it is nowadays).
I told my mother this story soon after and she remarked about how that probably was not the first time that that farmer saw people trying to sneak booze across his property.
Too bad it doesn’t have a back yard.
You can take your gun. You just can't take your rifle.
Though the way Canada is heading, they will probably confiscate your gun as well.
We once auctioned a property in which the house straddled the Mason Dixon line. The kitchen, etc. were in York County, PA.The bedrooms were in Harford County, MD. The ruling was that you pay taxes to where you live. Where you SLEEP is where you live. So they were taxed in Maryland.
You mean like this is my rifle this is my gun?
>>However, about a couple of days later, the cops showed up at their place because the farmer actually did see them running across his field, so he alerted the cops and noted the licence plate of the car they came up to his property in.
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The only correct answer to a cop at the door with that information is “you saw a car with my license plate on it. And?”
My Dad was the youngest of 7 and grew up during the Depression.In the 1920s one of his older sisters had married a guy from Saint Albans,VT which is less than an hour from Montreal.When I was a kid he and his (much) older brother used to tell a story about smuggling turkeys across the border,using their sister's place as a "stepping off point".
Given the history of the Kennedys (smuggling booze during Prohibition) I've often wondered if it was turkeys.
But as you've suggested I think the border was a bit less regulated than it is now.
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