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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My grandparents spent 30 years living on the Cape full time.

There is plenty of shopping, decent healthcare with world class healthcare an hour or so away and lots of amazing culture in Boston and Providence in winter when there is less on Cape.

Phenomenal hiking, birding etc. available year round.

Traffic in summer is a nightmare, no way around that drawback.

There is a mix of working class D and working class R and lots of wealthy retired R on Cape. There are issues with drugs as in any rural area with an economy dependent on seasonal traffic but overall crime is low. It isn’t true that the schools are bad; Massachusetts has the #1 ranked schools in the country (as it has had for decades), and while Cape schools aren’t the very best in the state they are quite good.

I would live on Cape if I could afford to - granted I have great memories from summers and holidays with my grandparents, but I also live 45 minutes from the Cape now and visit whenever I can which is mostly in the off season as I can’t abide the summer traffic.

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Where do the wealthy Ds live? MV?
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On the cape?  There are no wealthy Ds or at least very few.  The cape in of offseasons is quite working class.[/quote]

where are they working?[/quote]

Maintenance of hotels and second homes[/quote]

Most middle class people that live there work in the construction trades, own landscaping services, work in the local government in EMS, etc.  H's family lives there and yes, they never go over the bridge. It's a bit insular among the locals. If you move there, you'll likely find friends among the "wash-a-shores" (people not originally from the Cape)[/quote]

It's hard to make friends in many parts of New England, and the Cape is no exception. And OP's total cluelessness and lack of own research would not be well received.

FYI, I've never heard of anyone talking about 'neighborhoods' on the Cape. They are incorporated towns. [/quote]

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