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Originally Posted by Yankee
You do not live here, you do not vote here. Period. What makes you think that you have the same rights as NH citizens? People like you from south of the border come here and are the ones raising the tax bases of all the towns here in the lakes region. You would not be in the least interested in voting if your vacation property taxes were far less than they are now.
You do not live here, you do not have family here, you do not raise your children here, you do not earn a living here, you have no stake in the community other than your vacation property. Yet you have the temerity to think that you deserve the same right of franchise to vote as those who call the lakes region home?
Please explain how you came to this conclusion?...
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Counter question. Let's take for example a yearround resident with no job, a kid - a regular at the welfare office/food pantry, and who is living with their folks. This person is more enfranchised than a property-owning 'tourist' who might spend as much as 200 days a year here.
Is this appropriate by your estimation?
In case you're wondering, I've lived in NH my whole life. As has my wife, whose family is 'from here' going on 400 years.
Anyhoo, in spite of the love fest you find yourself in the midst of here, it's prolly a good thing that someone chime in now and again to remind the folks from away and the transplants that us locals get grumpy time and again.
(Personally, I'm not so much grumpy - really more irascible. The summer folk just consider me to be part of the local color. Easier with irascibility than grumpiness).