Venice: Death by tourists

[Guest]

John Kerry

 

[SeaCat]

This is very similar to my area. I live fairly close to Cape Cod, my family had a house there until recently. I would get so sick of the people who bought a summer house down ther two years ago, spend 3 weeks a year there and now bitch about the 'Tourists'.

Excuse me, if you don't live here more than 50% of the year and haven't lived here for more than 5 years, you're a tourist too.

And as far as the locals bitching about the tourists... again, excuse me, if it weren't for the tourists, you would all be unemployed. Tourism makes up about 90% of all industry.

If you live in a tourist area, deal with it, it ain't gonna get any better. Don't like it... move.

I lived on Cape Cod for more than twenty years. Nine of them as a renter. I know what you're saying about the newbies there,although there is a strong undercurrent from the old families there as well.

Unfortunately these old families have a controll on certain job areas not heard of in other areas. If you wish to get into the Fire Department for example you almost have to show a lineage conecting you to either the Crosby or Pina Families.

Too many people who now travel to Cape Cod are disapointed at what they see, it has grown and is no longer what it was when their parents and grandparents went there to visit. They complain long and loud about this.

About the SnowBirds who buy homes on Cape Cod. The towns and counties on Cape are the only ones in the country where you can own a house, live there for less than six months, and expect to vote in the town elections or on town bussiness. (They actually send information out to these people during the winter so they can be informed and vote.) It is these people who have voted out so many things which would be good for Cape Codders, including but not limited to: Public Transportation, light and heavy industry, Civic Centers, public access to beaches, increased funding for Police and Fire Departments, etc.

Because of this property values on Cape Cod are going through the roof while jobs, full time year round jobs, are vanishing. Young people from the Cape are having to move away from their families because they can't afford to live their. people are being forced to sell home which have been in their families for generations because they can no longer afford to pay the taxes on them. Land developers are in a booming market. They have even resorted to trying to sue people for their properties, or trying to force towns to take the land for them by Eminent Domain.

Twenty sme years ago when I first moved to the Cape it was a quiet place, no crime to speak of. Now I read about Drive by shootings, Crack Houses, and Prostitution Rings. I think I'm glad I moved.

Cat

 

[Guest]

Wow, Seacat. I'm very sorry to hear all that. I had a friend with an old family home on the Cape; she spent summers waitressing in Provincetown, everywhere we went people knew her. I stayed with her a couple weeks there about twenty years ago. She died a few years ago, but I think I won't be visiting Cape Cod again.

SF too has changed so that young families cannot afford to live here, even with two incomes. It's a shame and I pray my landlord lives a long life (I'm in a rent-controlled flat).

best, Perdita

 

[cheerful_deviant]

Too many people who now travel to Cape Cod are disapointed at what they see, it has grown and is no longer what it was when their parents and grandparents went there to visit. They complain long and loud about this.

About the SnowBirds who buy homes on Cape Cod. The towns and counties on Cape are the only ones in the country where you can own a house, live there for less than six months, and expect to vote in the town elections or on town bussiness. (They actually send information out to these people during the winter so they can be informed and vote.) It is these people who have voted out so many things which would be good for Cape Codders, including but not limited to: Public Transportation, light and heavy industry, Civic Centers, public access to beaches, increased funding for Police and Fire Departments, etc.

Because of this property values on Cape Cod are going through the roof while jobs, full time year round jobs, are vanishing. Young people from the Cape are having to move away from their families because they can't afford to live their. people are being forced to sell home which have been in their families for generations because they can no longer afford to pay the taxes on them. Land developers are in a booming market. They have even resorted to trying to sue people for their properties, or trying to force towns to take the land for them by Eminent Domain.

Twenty sme years ago when I first moved to the Cape it was a quiet place, no crime to speak of. Now I read about Drive by shootings, Crack Houses, and Prostitution Rings. I think I'm glad I moved.

Cat

All very true. I rarely go to the Cape any more in the summer because the traffic is horendous and every resteraunt worth eating at is at least an hour wait. For me, that's not a vacation.

You're also right about the property values. What my relatives got for their house, near the water but not on it, was obscene.

I havent heard about the drive bys, crack houses and prostitution but it wouldnt surprise me. When money comes to an are there are always going to be people who will try to exploit it.