In Loudon, the newcomer who’d moved up from Dunstable, Mass., unloaded on the town clerk one afternoon. He raved about how much he loved Dunstable and how lacking Loudon was – no streetlights, no kindergarten, the roads don’t get plowed, no trash pickup.
“If you dislike Loudon so much,” the town clerk said, “why’d you move here?”
“Low taxes.”
In another town, the new landowner complained about his taxes. “Why that lot’s not worth anywhere what you say it is,” he said to the selectman. “Half of it’s swamp and the other half ledge. There’s a powerline through the middle, not to mention a right-of-way to the neighboring lot.”
The selectman was unmoved: “If it’s such a lousy piece of property, what’d you buy it for?”
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