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NIMBY goes way beyond oil refineries. It's affect here on the Cape is crippling. The Industrial apark in Hyannis (Independence Park) was created to entice light industry to build plants that would help with the underpaying industry like hospitaility/food / entertainment that are viable only in the three short months of summer.
The Cape Cod Commision, which has manifested itself and morphed into this all powerful agency has quite lethaly squashed that concept. If you have ever been thru the park you can plainly see it would be perfect for this type of business but the feeling that "Olde Cape Cod" woulb be blighted by it has prevented it from happening so the haves that make thier money off cape and come here to build trophy homes are eating up all the available housing and the middle class who love this place as well live paycheck to paycheck and struggle to make ends meet and thier children can't afford to live where they were born becuase there are no housing units being built of modest pricing. Contractor/developers continue to make money at the expense of losingn that which is the vital compaonent of any society, the middle class. So on the Cape, if you did not buy your house before the mid 80's like I did and work as I and my wife do, in education, which has never been seen as a real money making occupation, you cannot afford to live here.
Cape Cod, the land of sun, surf, clean air and the ultra rich and the ultra poor with little or no one in between.
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