Twenty seven years is enough to notice the change. I liked rural, space, fresh air and no traffic lights. Then the yuppies moved in.
The 40B over-rides forced high density housing in places where the guy in 13 can open his window and spit into the swamp.
I can’t remember the year, but it was in the 80’s when the town was ordered to adopt a state-wide accounting system. Well, the system made it vastly easier for the town to hide money and make it totally ambiguous to the voters as to how money was spent and where.
I once ran for selectman over the proposed firing of a 29 year veteran town employee.
The final straw though is the building inspector is now going about town shutting down businesses.
He is after all the “code enforcement authority”.
Honestly, I think this attitude we have gotten into. This Homeboy Security crap, this enforcement of the “rules” has gone way over the top.
While we may have property “values” in the one million dollar category most of the people here suck.
You just can’t complain about 40B housing and million-dollar property values at the same time. The former is meant to prevent the latter.
…the yuppies. So nice to have a convenient dehumanizing category to lump people in. Last I checked buying land and building a home was something everyone was allowed to do, regadless of whether you liked spitting in swamps or being a working professional raising your family.
Maybe if people in small towns weren’t so intent on lowering government services everywhere via a strong anti-tax agenda, then there wouldn’t be so much demand to escape decaying dense areas.
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You can’t be against million-dollar houses, 40B, AND government services for others (while of course preserving yours). You can’t try and create a little world for yourself that is utopia, denying others the same, only to complain that everyone wants what you have.