LIVING IN HYANNIS
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4/8/2012
I am a native Bostonian and we lived on the Cape for some 20 years and then moved for work to Virginia for ten years and are now back and living in Hyannis, Massachusetts which we have been familiar with for years. Frankly, it is an interesting town. From about June to December with the summer tourists and then the Holiday season life is fairly busy. The Summer crowd is really not that bad and mainly encountered by those commuting for a vacation or a get away from areas beyond the Cape...the traffic coming on and off the Cape can be ugly on the weekend...you have been forewarned so plan to come mid-week. The best season is actually from mid-May to the end of June...then the mobs really come in but it can be a festive time and I have never had contention with the tourists trying to get their Cape memories in for the coming Winter.
Housing can be absurd and is overpriced considering the lack of any realy well paid jobs here. Lot of off Cape money and empty second homes abound in the Winter months..status to have a home on the Cape...a reward for slogging it out for 40 years. Their are some good apartments about and the living otherwise is not that expensive as the pace after the summer has ended is a bit funky and quiet and even mysterious. You are about 25 miles out into the Atlantic and it does have affect on your psychic. Some deal with the winter season: (September to May(Spring comes in strong in mid-May not in March or April where it barely shows its face)....with drink and their is a continuous drug problem but the area is not violent and crime is not a big deal...actually mainly very quiet and peaceful for many months.
Boston is but 85 miles away and public transportation gets you to downtown Boston in about and hour and half.
It is a good place to live and it does have a bit of romance and eeriness to it..at times it feels like the 1940s'. As stated work is and has always been pretty lousy here as to opportunity and pay so either bring your money or simply live a low key life..you can still enjoy the beaches even in the winter and the town of Hyannis is a piece of cake to manuever around for many months of the year. The tourists are but chasing their summer time memory to hold them over for the winter so I do not begrudge them.
Bp | Barnstable Town, MA