Cape Cod is....

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Anonymous wrote:When we stayed Truro a few years ago it was $2500-$3000 for the week- July 4th week (we were several families). I think you paid way way too much. We were walking distance to a Bay beach and we were allowed to use it. I found the people on the Cape super nice and down to earth. When I went to get coffee on the second day, the barista greeted me by name and asked if I wanted the same thing I had the day before.

This is another example of something that is definitely lost on some people. Great example, PP!

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Anonymous wrote:I like the variety of it. Hyannis is very different from Falmouth, which is different than Eastham/National Sea Shore area, which is differnet from Provincetown. Then, you have Nantucket and Martha's Vineyards.

Except for Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard, the prices are comparable to the Jersey Shore and OBX. I think the difference is that you can make it significantly cheaper because there are more small 2-3 bedroom houses that are still "nice", where in OBX and NJ, that isn't necessarily true.

+1

Agreed.

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Anonymous wrote:It is the reason I wish I didn’t live in DC. That and visiting the lakes in New England. Cannot for the life of me find anything close nearby.

The lakes in New England are very nice. Also state parks in New Hampshire.

I would indeed like to be closer to those.

Or

The NC mountains. So much more striking than the VA mountains. Same mountain range but much higher.

I think one is either a mountain/lake person, or an ocean person, as is shown here. I simply don't pretend to know about one when I am clearly the other.

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Anonymous wrote:Y’all (DC) are spoiled too you just don’t realize it. Signed a former DC resident absolutely psyched to be moving back after a Midwest tour.

Proof positive that it truly does all depend on one's point of reference, IRL, doesn't it?

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Anonymous wrote:Nantucket smokes the Cape. Great history, food, beaches and mostly less crowded. Sankaty is a great golf club too! That said, shark watching in Cape Cod would be fun. I have done Cape Town shark dives and would love to do it closer to home.

There are very few similarities between South Africa and Cape Cod - one being, there are absolutely not enough sharks to "shark watch" or anything like that on Cape Cod, only an occasional shark. But there is a poster here who likes to try to rail on the Cape to antagonize another poster who is from the Cape, so that gets old after a while.

There are great whale watches and seal watches on the Cape, and also great golf (lots of private and public clubs) for anyone who is NOT TROLLING and is genuinely interested.

I did not say they are alike. So odd.

That said, a dead whale attracted a bunch of great whites off the Cape a few weeks ago. Not sure if you can dive near a whale carcass but there was great shark watching. Would like to do it here and don’t think it would be hard with a bit of chum and some time.

Sankaty is the best golf course this side of the Country Club. Have played most of the Cape’s best. Sorry didn’t come to troll but few trolled cause you deserve it.

Wut?

There are lots of great whites in Cape Cod. 350-500 8 footers and larger, at least. Tons of smaller juveniles. Many new, untagged sharks already in the Cape waters this year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I grew up on Cape Cod and am here now. I love it and could spend all summer here- the beaches, bike paths, cool nights. But it has gotten increasingly more 'new money' over the years. Modest homes passed down through families now being torn down to be replaced with huge houses, many more Range rovers and BMWs. No diversity, although that is not new.

Where did you grow up? It's true Nauset regional was never diverse! For new money, do you mean people who come for summer? As a local, we always thought of summer people as rich anyway but I guess it is increasingly true. The hardest part is that locals can't afford year round homes. Teachers often come from off the Cape because they can't buy houses on anymore.

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Anonymous wrote:Nantucket smokes the Cape. Great history, food, beaches and mostly less crowded. Sankaty is a great golf club too! That said, shark watching in Cape Cod would be fun. I have done Cape Town shark dives and would love to do it closer to home.

There are very few similarities between South Africa and Cape Cod - one being, there are absolutely not enough sharks to "shark watch" or anything like that on Cape Cod, only an occasional shark. But there is a poster here who likes to try to rail on the Cape to antagonize another poster who is from the Cape, so that gets old after a while.

There are great whale watches and seal watches on the Cape, and also great golf (lots of private and public clubs) for anyone who is NOT TROLLING and is genuinely interested.

I did not say they are alike. So odd.

That said, a dead whale attracted a bunch of great whites off the Cape a few weeks ago. Not sure if you can dive near a whale carcass but there was great shark watching. Would like to do it here and don’t think it would be hard with a bit of chum and some time.

Sankaty is the best golf course this side of the Country Club. Have played most of the Cape’s best. Sorry didn’t come to troll but few trolled cause you deserve it.

Wut?

There are lots of great whites in Cape Cod. 350-500 8 footers and larger, at least. Tons of smaller juveniles. Many new, untagged sharks already in the Cape waters this year.

Whatever. You seem fixated, and not in a healthy way, at all.

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Anonymous wrote:I grew up on Cape Cod and am here now. I love it and could spend all summer here- the beaches, bike paths, cool nights. But it has gotten increasingly more 'new money' over the years. Modest homes passed down through families now being torn down to be replaced with huge houses, many more Range rovers and BMWs. No diversity, although that is not new.

Where did you grow up? It's true Nauset regional was never diverse! For new money, do you mean people who come for summer? As a local, we always thought of summer people as rich anyway but I guess it is increasingly true. The hardest part is that locals can't afford year round homes. Teachers often come from off the Cape because they can't buy houses on anymore.

DP here. There are many of us! I may be older than you both, but when I was growing up, average people could afford a second home on the Cape. I know more than one family who had two teacher parents, who had Cape homes (in addition to their suburban homes, no more than an hour away, usually). It seems hard for DCUMers to fathom that the beach is an hour or less away to some people - I just presume (logically) that they must come from the Midwest. But, most Midwesterners I now don't pretend to know about someplace they know little, if anything about, so there is that.....

I think in some vacation/tourist prone areas, there may be some animosity between the year rounders and the second homeowners - but now it is totally unfounded, because the year rounders go to Florida from about November/December to about April/May. The animosity is much like those who try to spout vague opinion (if it is about Cape Cod, they are usually about random sharks or random drugs LOL) as fact on DCUM. Hilarious!

Glad to know there are some fact checkers abound.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Nantucket smokes the Cape. Great history, food, beaches and mostly less crowded. Sankaty is a great golf club too! That said, shark watching in Cape Cod would be fun. I have done Cape Town shark dives and would love to do it closer to home.

There are very few similarities between South Africa and Cape Cod - one being, there are absolutely not enough sharks to "shark watch" or anything like that on Cape Cod, only an occasional shark. But there is a poster here who likes to try to rail on the Cape to antagonize another poster who is from the Cape, so that gets old after a while.

There are great whale watches and seal watches on the Cape, and also great golf (lots of private and public clubs) for anyone who is NOT TROLLING and is genuinely interested.

I did not say they are alike. So odd.

That said, a dead whale attracted a bunch of great whites off the Cape a few weeks ago. Not sure if you can dive near a whale carcass but there was great shark watching. Would like to do it here and don’t think it would be hard with a bit of chum and some time.

Sankaty is the best golf course this side of the Country Club. Have played most of the Cape’s best. Sorry didn’t come to troll but few trolled cause you deserve it.

Wut?

There are lots of great whites in Cape Cod. 350-500 8 footers and larger, at least. Tons of smaller juveniles. Many new, untagged sharks already in the Cape waters this year.

Are there shark tours? My kids would LOVE that.

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Anonymous wrote:Nantucket smokes the Cape. Great history, food, beaches and mostly less crowded. Sankaty is a great golf club too! That said, shark watching in Cape Cod would be fun. I have done Cape Town shark dives and would love to do it closer to home.

There are very few similarities between South Africa and Cape Cod - one being, there are absolutely not enough sharks to "shark watch" or anything like that on Cape Cod, only an occasional shark. But there is a poster here who likes to try to rail on the Cape to antagonize another poster who is from the Cape, so that gets old after a while.

There are great whale watches and seal watches on the Cape, and also great golf (lots of private and public clubs) for anyone who is NOT TROLLING and is genuinely interested.

I did not say they are alike. So odd.

That said, a dead whale attracted a bunch of great whites off the Cape a few weeks ago. Not sure if you can dive near a whale carcass but there was great shark watching. Would like to do it here and don’t think it would be hard with a bit of chum and some time.

Sankaty is the best golf course this side of the Country Club. Have played most of the Cape’s best. Sorry didn’t come to troll but few trolled cause you deserve it.

Wut?

There are lots of great whites in Cape Cod. 350-500 8 footers and larger, at least. Tons of smaller juveniles. Many new, untagged sharks already in the Cape waters this year.

Are there shark tours? My kids would LOVE that.

In South Africa. Not in Cape Cod. Cape Cod only has seal tours and whale watches, for good reason. There are not nearly enough sharks in Cape Cod to have any kind of watch, but there is an antagonistic PP who keeps spouting random information - so be careful from whom you get "facts", PP! People like that usually claim to be an "authority" - internet style.

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Anonymous wrote:Tens of millions of people can drive there in half a day.

That's 90% of the appeal.

I grew up in Boston with a second home on the Cape. Every Friday night of summer (and lots of other times) we'd hop in the car after dinner and be there 90-120 minutes later. I have family that ended up there full time and to me the salty air and dunes are home. So, I love it. But, yeah, maybe not as a destination from DC if you weren't going to visit family.

With that said, whomever said there is nothing to do seriously lacks imagination. I mean, it's not water park and zip lining kind of stuff but SO MUCH TO DO.

Much nicer beaches than close to DC.

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Anonymous wrote:I grew up on Cape Cod and am here now. I love it and could spend all summer here- the beaches, bike paths, cool nights. But it has gotten increasingly more 'new money' over the years. Modest homes passed down through families now being torn down to be replaced with huge houses, many more Range rovers and BMWs. No diversity, although that is not new.

Where did you grow up? It's true Nauset regional was never diverse! For new money, do you mean people who come for summer? As a local, we always thought of summer people as rich anyway but I guess it is increasingly true. The hardest part is that locals can't afford year round homes. Teachers often come from off the Cape because they can't buy houses on anymore.

DP here. There are many of us! I may be older than you both, but when I was growing up, average people could afford a second home on the Cape. I know more than one family who had two teacher parents, who had Cape homes (in addition to their suburban homes, no more than an hour away, usually). It seems hard for DCUMers to fathom that the beach is an hour or less away to some people - I just presume (logically) that they must come from the Midwest. But, most Midwesterners I now don't pretend to know about someplace they know little, if anything about, so there is that.....

I think in some vacation/tourist prone areas, there may be some animosity between the year rounders and the second homeowners - but now it is totally unfounded, because the year rounders go to Florida from about November/December to about April/May. The animosity is much like those who try to spout vague opinion (if it is about Cape Cod, they are usually about random sharks or random drugs LOL) as fact on DCUM. Hilarious!

Glad to know there are some fact checkers abound.

Do you live on Cape Cod full-time now? Which area would you recommend for purchasing a second home? We've stayed in Truro twice. Are the year-rounders there open to second homeowners?

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We spend our summer in Chatham and never go the ocean. We go to the kettle ponds. Glorious

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I grew up on Cape Cod and am here now. I love it and could spend all summer here- the beaches, bike paths, cool nights. But it has gotten increasingly more 'new money' over the years. Modest homes passed down through families now being torn down to be replaced with huge houses, many more Range rovers and BMWs. No diversity, although that is not new.

Where did you grow up? It's true Nauset regional was never diverse! For new money, do you mean people who come for summer? As a local, we always thought of summer people as rich anyway but I guess it is increasingly true. The hardest part is that locals can't afford year round homes. Teachers often come from off the Cape because they can't buy houses on anymore.

DP here. There are many of us! I may be older than you both, but when I was growing up, average people could afford a second home on the Cape. I know more than one family who had two teacher parents, who had Cape homes (in addition to their suburban homes, no more than an hour away, usually). It seems hard for DCUMers to fathom that the beach is an hour or less away to some people - I just presume (logically) that they must come from the Midwest. But, most Midwesterners I now don't pretend to know about someplace they know little, if anything about, so there is that.....

I think in some vacation/tourist prone areas, there may be some animosity between the year rounders and the second homeowners - but now it is totally unfounded, because the year rounders go to Florida from about November/December to about April/May. The animosity is much like those who try to spout vague opinion (if it is about Cape Cod, they are usually about random sharks or random drugs LOL) as fact on DCUM. Hilarious!

Glad to know there are some fact checkers abound.

Do you live on Cape Cod full-time now? Which area would you recommend for purchasing a second home? We've stayed in Truro twice. Are the year-rounders there open to second homeowners?

We have been fantasizing about buying something like this.
https://www.kinlingrover.com/listings/118-n-pamet-road-truro-ma-02666_22001226

Taxes are dirt cheap.

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I grew up on Cape Cod and am here now. I love it and could spend all summer here- the beaches, bike paths, cool nights. But it has gotten increasingly more 'new money' over the years. Modest homes passed down through families now being torn down to be replaced with huge houses, many more Range rovers and BMWs. No diversity, although that is not new.

Where did you grow up? It's true Nauset regional was never diverse! For new money, do you mean people who come for summer? As a local, we always thought of summer people as rich anyway but I guess it is increasingly true. The hardest part is that locals can't afford year round homes. Teachers often come from off the Cape because they can't buy houses on anymore.

DP here. There are many of us! I may be older than you both, but when I was growing up, average people could afford a second home on the Cape. I know more than one family who had two teacher parents, who had Cape homes (in addition to their suburban homes, no more than an hour away, usually). It seems hard for DCUMers to fathom that the beach is an hour or less away to some people - I just presume (logically) that they must come from the Midwest. But, most Midwesterners I now don't pretend to know about someplace they know little, if anything about, so there is that.....

I think in some vacation/tourist prone areas, there may be some animosity between the year rounders and the second homeowners - but now it is totally unfounded, because the year rounders go to Florida from about November/December to about April/May. The animosity is much like those who try to spout vague opinion (if it is about Cape Cod, they are usually about random sharks or random drugs LOL) as fact on DCUM. Hilarious!

Glad to know there are some fact checkers abound.

Do you live on Cape Cod full-time now? Which area would you recommend for purchasing a second home? We've stayed in Truro twice. Are the year-rounders there open to second homeowners?

We have been fantasizing about buying something like this.
https://www.kinlingrover.com/listings/118-n-pamet-road-truro-ma-02666_22001226

Taxes are dirt cheap.

That's a great site, but the house looks like it may not be winterized? That makes maintenance a bit more work to stop everything from mildewing. And of course you can't use it in the off season. I like going up for a couple of long weekends in the off season, and really missed it this year (we were planning to go in March).

RE taxes do tend to be cheaper in MA. There is also a personal property tax - it varies by town. Ours kicks in for second homes over $1m. Every few years we need to do a complete inventory of all our furnishings and belongings, right down to things like dishes and glasses. We also have to pay a car tax for a car we keep in MA.