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Posted by Matt from CT on June 29, 2006 at 18:57:44 from (24.177.7.45):
In Reply to: Never mind fresh mown hay, is there anything nicer posted by Matt from CT on June 28, 2006 at 20:28:48:
I'm in Brooklyn for the Hebron & Voluntown folks :) Kind of sad driving around town yesterday showing my sister all the houses going up -- many of the towns people still just having figured out that we've been sucked into Metro Boston (and Hartford / Providence). I'm figuring 10,000 population is only a few years off, and the average income in the last 10 years has gone from 75% of the state average to 90% because of all the young, commuting professionals looking for something "affordable." Between their demands for more services, just general needs for more services in a town of 10,000 then 5,000, and their incomes pulling us out of the brackets for a bunch of the "needs" based grants and school reimbursements...our taxes are going to go through the roof. Saw today that Paul Miller (one of the largest dairy farmers in the state) has put the old Tarr Farm on Route 44 in Pomfret for sale (huge blue barns with the gothic roofs) -- great farmland, but also primed for residential development.
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