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)
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