Comment by ghaff

In my town schools are about 60-70% of property taxes and, with a new regional high school being built, that number will probably go up. That's pretty typical situation in Massachusetts towns around where I live.

We're certainly a year-round town. But it's a reality of a lot of coastal communities as you get up the coast further that, if they're not commercial fishing ports, they do largely close down in the winter. If there weren't summer homes and a tourist industry, not many people would live there.