[camp guy]

A side issue to all of this, and maybe one not for this thread, is the issues faced by the non-voter eligible people who live in some of the local towns. In Wolfeboro, for instance, some serious road/utility infrastructure work had to be done on Sewall Rd (a road along the edge of Wolfeboro Bay and therefore very high property values) but many of the people who live on Sewall Road are not voter-eligible due to their resident status. Unfortunately, because many people who don't live on Sewall Rd don't really care about that road, and most of these people are voters, it was very difficult and costly to get the work done over about a three year period. This is anecdotal, but the issue is, some of the people who pay the most have no vote (say) in the use of the money they pay. Again, I know, I know, they choose to live in these spots, and they know the trade-offs, but it's too bad there isn't a way to let them participate in the town government. The irony of the whole situation, at least in Wolfeboro, is that some of these non-voters are extremely active in volunteer work within the town while they are resident. Sort of one-sided, lop-sided. This is probably the case in many of the towns bordering water bodies in New Hampshire.