Better than 90% of Eastham’s income is derived from tourism? Sounds like a made-up number to me. How can anyone afford a house there (average price over half a million) working in a minimum wage industry like tourism?
Tourism upsets the Cape Cod lebenshaltung in more ways than economic. It rewards a least-common-denominator aesthetic, wealth devoid of social concern, superficial prettiness, conformity. It undermines the bohemian, eccentric, artistic yet flinty Yankee character that made this area so beloved to so many.