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Originally Posted by Turbowned
Yeah, too rich for my blood. Very easy living though if you've got the money.
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Actually my parents are not rich...My mother is a retired school teacher, my father is a retired general contractor. Neither of which made a ton of money. People who live on the island year round are usually not rich...people who have summer houses and weekend houses are the rich ones. My parents do not own a second home, their house on the vineyard is their only home and they worked their asses off for 20 years to pay for it, they bought property there before I was born when it was cheap 27 years ago. Other than food and gas being moderately expensive, everything else isn't bad, plus you don't really have to drive anywhere so you save on gas and insurance rates are low comparatively since there is a very low theft rate (where are they gonna go? All cars have to leave the island by boat.) My parents pay $2100 a year to insure 3 cars (theirs and my truck) and the majority of that insurance goes to paying to insure my truck since it's in Somerville year round.