What Class Are You Kate?

This is episode 4 of a special series called What Class Are You, wherein I drive around asking people to talk about class and privilege and power and money and how much or little of it they've got.

Kate is forty-three. She lives in the woods here in central Vermont. She's part of a community of young people around here who live frugally and often communally—in yurts and tents and tiny cabins and buses. Kate lived this way for 20 years, saving up money to buy this piece of land...but it's gotten harder to find affordable land here in Vermont, particularly after the Great Covid Migration. When I asked Kate what class she is, she said 'lower middle class by unconventional means.'

What Class Are You is a periodic series I make for Vermont Public. Thank you Vermont Public for allowing me to share these stories with Rumble Strip.