This has happened to the central part of NH lakes region over the last thirty years. NH tax burden is primarily on property taxes. So, the most expensive real estate pays the largest percentage of taxes. This directly affects the lake front towns and lake front houses.
Many of these houses are owned by retirees and out of state people. Their kids are either all grown up or go to school in MA or other locations.
Yet, they pay huge real estate taxes on their lake front properties.
These rich liberals eventually retire to their house on the big lake. Next thing they want is an income tax to lower their tax burden and shift it to working people.
This attitude has made the lakes region of NH become more liberal over the last thirty plus years. Only rich people can afford these very expensive lake front houses now. Many of them are multiple millions now. A lot of these owners come from MA, CT, even NYC. They became rich while living primarily in out of state liberal locations.
Yep- sad to see it happening. The east coast and north east is such a beautiful area- even inland with all,th3 mountains and lakes and streams, rivers etc. Liberals have just ruined th3se great areas. Used to be people would just ,I’ve and let live, but nope, no more- liberals just gotta stick their noses into local’s business, and control what they do and say. Then blm and anTifa, and illegals start showing up in those small towns and things really start a rapid downhill slide- its happening to my town, though not in force yet as their numbers are still pretty low yet, but that is changing every year.
I grew up 20, maybe 30 years too late. this was a great place to live in the 70’s- about 2000, but no more. We used to know most everyone in town back when, now we don’t recognize many of the folks, and the politics are going hard left, and fol,s are just angry miserable and really put-offish now- used to be such a friendly town. Sad to see it deteriorating.