I live in a coastal community on the North Shore. It’s a small town that’s rich in history and friendly people. We have the annual Memorial Day Parade, The Horribles Parade/Fireworks for the 4th, tree lighting and Christmas Walk each December, Festival of the Arts etc. Numerous movies have filmed here, too.

Politically, it’s blue. People have USA flags and Ukrainian flags up. When the presidential election ended the few Trump flags were taken down and put away. I’ve never seen a MAGA red hat in my community.

Local politics is a mix- with no extremes on either side. We are able to meet in the middle. We have Town Meeting with elected Selectmen and town administration. Voting is easy.

Property taxes are lower, housing costs are 600k and up. We have our own electric, harbor, recycle/dump, locally owned movie theater that was recently redone, and all of our schools are completely rehabbed or built in the past 20 years.

It’s a big boating community, beaches and docks, shopping, stand up paddle boarding and kayak rentals, restaurants, walkable, and historical. It’s about 15 min to the highway and 30-40 minutes from Boston.

The only gas station in town is for boats. But the surrounding towns have plenty of them.