Do you.......

[Jenn]

Originally Posted by saltfly

that's an easy and tough question all mixed in one.I moved from Braintree to the cape in 1985.Took a 30% cut in pay[ma bell] and 50% raise in rent.Best thing I ever did.I sold my slide-in camper and 19' n.american c.c.,gave my brother my 76 f-250[mechanic at Dave Dinger ford].Bought a new 86 bronco and started "livin the good life".The first year I saved $12,000 by not hanging in the bars[weymouth landing] and partying.Working out of Orleans I learned all the back roads and little places not traveled.Took an offer to work on Nantucket for the summers.Locked up the appt.[w.dennis] the 1st week of may and came back after laborday.worked pretty much 7 days a week &fished most nights,heaven!!Did that ten years.Almost moved there but now I'm glad I didn't[too crowded].Got engaged bought a couple of acres and built a house in Truro.This was my "Nantucket".Things were great for a few years.Took an early buy-out at 52[34yrs] and then the relationship went into the toilet.Subdivided the property and sold the house.Moved to Orleans 3 yrs ago.Now with all the "issues" both natural and man-made with the beaches and infrastructure in general.I'm looking at the possibility of finding a "golden pond" or acreage in w.mass,vt,n.h.,me.I still co-own an acre in truro but can't afford to buy it.I love this place in the off-season,these next two months you can have it.When I have to go up to Boston and drive through my old"hood" I thank god I got out when I did.ANYONE WANT TO BUY AN ACRE IN TRURO??

I will trade you 3/4 of an acre w/ house in western ma

[Raider Ronnie]

I love where I live (Wrentham Ma. )
I bought in 1989, before the housing price boom of the mid 1990s , now the value is 4 times what I paid!
Most all of the town is 2 acre minimum, so NO living on top of each other like lots of other towns and especially any city.
NO 2 familys, NO low income housing, No appartment buildings ect... = No riff raff scum living in the town !
Great schools !!!

If I ever moved it would Be to Maine !
I like the laid back pace of life up there much better than the cut throat way of life in Ma. !

[stiff tip]

i tryed to leave the cape .mashpee .about 5yrs ago ...i bought 2+ ac in douglas ma and sat on in for 3yrs ....bottom line is ... i,ve been here 20+ yrs now .i aint going no where..i have a nice( too) big home w/ a view of johns pd..10 min from the ocean, 5min from pheasent and quail hunting and 20 min from the canal i just could not leave the cape. i,ve raised my kids here and i,m going to retire here. in actuality i am retired, i just get up every day and go to work.... and i love my job... flap your right ...if i left i would hate myself ......hay i can smell the ocean

[Backbeach Jake]

For those of us who remember what was, the old ways on the Cape, when fishing , clamming , berry picking, hunting was a necessity, only we will know what was lost. This Cape Cod was a remote and nearly lost, newly found corner of this country. Primitive in living, close to the earth. I am profoundly saddened by the changes that I have witnessed and the way of life that is now nearly lost. Breaks my heart. But change is inevitable and unrelenting, it comes with a steady pressure that can't be stopped. Sad but true. "Progress" is a glacially slow, unstoppable freight-train. Our idyllic, bucloic lives have been transformed over the decades, never to return to the way it was. We were free men, earning our way from the earth, and there was a measure of satisfaction in our lives. It has slipped away. What we once made, we must buy. What we once had taked for granted is owned by our government. But in all this, I personally take great satisfaction in knowing what once was. I was given a simpler, more fulfilling life. The heyday of that life is long ago past, but it's skills and lessons will sustain me into what is left of my future. The good old days of Cape Cod were indeed good.