I was born in westerly 56 years ago and still have a place there. It is not the town it was 50 years ago - in the summer there is a huge influx of tourists from New York. There is a big tax base due to the multi million dollar summer homes of various hedge fund types. This keeps the property tax rate low - but in spite of this investment in the school system is well below par. Aside from service jobs - most of the highly skilled work dried up do to corporate flight to lower cost geographies. This has been replaced by an influx of more transient workers attacked by the casinos.
In short a great town if you are wealthy and like the beaches - otherwise real career opportunities are limited - the middle class has been squeezed out
kolchak-the-elder t1_j5em0az wrote
Reply to Advice regarding Westerly by PinkSwallowLove
I was born in westerly 56 years ago and still have a place there. It is not the town it was 50 years ago - in the summer there is a huge influx of tourists from New York. There is a big tax base due to the multi million dollar summer homes of various hedge fund types. This keeps the property tax rate low - but in spite of this investment in the school system is well below par. Aside from service jobs - most of the highly skilled work dried up do to corporate flight to lower cost geographies. This has been replaced by an influx of more transient workers attacked by the casinos.
In short a great town if you are wealthy and like the beaches - otherwise real career opportunities are limited - the middle class has been squeezed out