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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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.  [/quote]

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.[/quote]

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.

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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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