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Ya it sucks Karl, and you're not even on an island :smash:
I guess they figure they can charge island prices since they gotta bring the stuff over the bridge :rollem:

Sounds like you got one step closer to off-cape :(
Where you live has advantages that outweigh that grumpage IMO. I know it's hard to swallow, those price increases but isn't that how greed works, supply and demand. I wonder if welfare pays more out there:fury::wall::devil2:

I agree with Slip...Where you live as other advantages..Just gotta keep remembering that I guess

One of the hardest things I had to get used to when I first moved here in 1983 was that everythingn was more expensive 'cause it had to "come over the bridge" come over the bridge? WTF is that? Anyway, blame it on the old Cape Codders mindset of making it when you can and as much as you can for as long as you can, meaning the summer season, which has been extended into late fall and early spring this last 20 odd years or so.

Yes, believe it or not, the same old quaint Cape Codders we remember and revere, started the practice, hell even wages were 40% lower for the same work as off Cape but it was because we wanted to live here and work here, over the bridge.

It's business as practiced for as long as business has been practiced here on the spit and it's a practice that has been so long entrenched it will be a long time before it goes away if ever.

I am lucky ( at least I realize it now) that I finally chose the upper cape to live on and work just over the bridge, gas is purchased in Wareham and food in Wareham, a fifteen minute ride.

And to top it all off fishing up this way has been wayyyyyy better than out that way last two years. (I still love Truro more than anywhere on the cape and still would like to someday have a three season cottage out there)

Karl dont feel too bad its not just out there. I have the "flip side" of that problem! I work in Agawam which is a hop skipa and jump from CT....I can never get gas near work because the stations are always packed with CT cars seeking the fifty cents cheaper gas.......

Look on the bright side....you don't have to spend $6000 a year extra to send your kid to Catholic school because your poor-town school system sucks so bad.

Look on the bright side....you don't have to spend $6000 a year extra to send your kid to Catholic school because your poor-town school system sucks so bad.

Have you been to the Cape in the last 10 years, Joe?
When my wife taught at Bourne HS, they were averaging 3 ODs a week. I doubt that Mashpee, Barnstable and D-Y Regional are any better. All of those quaint little motels along Rte 28 house welfare cases all off-season, and summer cottages get rented to Section 8 tenants. Where do you think those kids go to school?

Our school systems are no bargains. :hs:

I was up in Chatham last fall - tagging along at a conference my wife had - it looked pretty nice. I did not know about the decline of Cape overall.

phffffft.

pHFFFT yourself Karl, you know it's the truth, It may be nationwide but here on Cape, thanks to the "old way" we get tapped even more.

You want cheaper gas go north to P-Town, ten cents cheaper than in Orleans.

Have you been to the Cape in the last 10 years, Joe?
When my wife taught at Bourne HS, they were averaging 3 ODs a week. I doubt that Mashpee, Barnstable and D-Y Regional are any better. All of those quaint little motels along Rte 28 house welfare cases all off-season, and summer cottages get rented to Section 8 tenants. Where do you think those kids go to school?

Our school systems are no bargains. :hs:

My wife works in the Falmouth system and I worked for a number of years at the D-Y schools. There are very dedicated people in those systems and the section-8 students are dropping off fast from when I was working over there. Barnstable has the big problems, the other towns are still producing good educational programs for thier kids.

In Falmouth we can't seem to get a building committee together that knows anything about public construction, too much ol time good ol boy back room sh!t.

D-Y can't get thier act together on budgets, been that way since the early nineties when the state decided to add a pile of unfunded mandates for special education and the rivalry between both towns just continues to get in the way of the funding of thier school programs.

I have been in the school business for almost 20 years now, still at it over here in ORR. The problem is not the schools but the parents who produce these little darlings preferring to send thier kids to school so someone else can discipline them rather than be bothered with it themselves.