Thank you for sharing our story Seth! We appreciate your Cape Cod voice endlessly! We are really hoping to buy, as the rents way too high for people like nurses to save money or to live a decent lifestyle at $2500 or more a month. It would be easier to stay in the basement, pay half that amount and save as much as possible for a more significant downpayment. I never thought I would feel fortunate to live in a basement, but at least I can save $$ and not work 3 jobs. I already am working over 64 hours a week just to save. If I jumped into a $2800 a month rental I would be doing nothing but working. At 47, I can’t sustain that. I would never see my daughter. I would end up sick. Nursing is awfully hard right now. I just don’t think the people running these towns get it. I do think we are going to have a catastrophy within the next year or so on the Cape unless something changes and quickly. We desperately need affordable housing.
Nothing I can add to your story about this true crisis — only that I have six grand children all living within a mile and a half from our home in Orleans. Not one of them has a chance to live in the town where their parents and they were born. I am angry about what has happened to this place, not at any individuals because everybody wants to live or at least own land and a house in a beautiful place with a nice climate, which we are and have. We should all be angry at the lack of action by our town governments to this growing problem that gets lots of talk and little action. The longer we wait for something to happen, the more of our future here on the Cape will be lost to everyday young people who will be forced to leave. I am sick at heart seeing the culture and community that once existed here be turned into a haven for investments and growing gentrification. I am lost at what to do about it. Thousands of empty bedrooms, hundreds of empty living rooms and kitchens, dens and parlors, all empty and a bunch of kids looking for a place to get started in their lives. What are we allowing to happen?
Thank you Seth. As always, you bring us light. B. A.
Thanks for sharing this story, Seth. It is such a huge problem all over the Cape. Stories like this really brings the message home. Keep up the good work.
We currently have a 2 bedroom in Harwich for $2500+, & a 3 bedroom 8-16-22 for $2800. still big rent I agree, Bass River Properties, 9-4 Mon-Fri 5083944446
Thank you for sharing our story Seth! We appreciate your Cape Cod voice endlessly! We are really hoping to buy, as the rents way too high for people like nurses to save money or to live a decent lifestyle at $2500 or more a month. It would be easier to stay in the basement, pay half that amount and save as much as possible for a more significant downpayment. I never thought I would feel fortunate to live in a basement, but at least I can save $$ and not work 3 jobs. I already am working over 64 hours a week just to save. If I jumped into a $2800 a month rental I would be doing nothing but working. At 47, I can’t sustain that. I would never see my daughter. I would end up sick. Nursing is awfully hard right now. I just don’t think the people running these towns get it. I do think we are going to have a catastrophy within the next year or so on the Cape unless something changes and quickly. We desperately need affordable housing.
Nothing I can add to your story about this true crisis — only that I have six grand children all living within a mile and a half from our home in Orleans. Not one of them has a chance to live in the town where their parents and they were born. I am angry about what has happened to this place, not at any individuals because everybody wants to live or at least own land and a house in a beautiful place with a nice climate, which we are and have. We should all be angry at the lack of action by our town governments to this growing problem that gets lots of talk and little action. The longer we wait for something to happen, the more of our future here on the Cape will be lost to everyday young people who will be forced to leave. I am sick at heart seeing the culture and community that once existed here be turned into a haven for investments and growing gentrification. I am lost at what to do about it. Thousands of empty bedrooms, hundreds of empty living rooms and kitchens, dens and parlors, all empty and a bunch of kids looking for a place to get started in their lives. What are we allowing to happen?
Thank you Seth. As always, you bring us light. B. A.
Thanks for sharing this story, Seth. It is such a huge problem all over the Cape. Stories like this really brings the message home. Keep up the good work.
We currently have a 2 bedroom in Harwich for $2500+, & a 3 bedroom 8-16-22 for $2800. still big rent I agree, Bass River Properties, 9-4 Mon-Fri 5083944446