1. People From The Cape Are Baseball Lovers
The laughably bad movie “Summer Catch” doesn’t do Cape Cod League justice—nor was it shot in a place that looks anything remotely like Cape Cod. For those unfamiliar, the summer collegiate baseball league played entirely on the Cape is a breeding ground for top-level MLB talent, and is the next best thing to actually making out to a Sox game.
Actually, in some ways, the small crowds, close proximity to the players and great scenery make it even better. Running from mid-June and through mid-August, the league is one of those rare events that both true year-round Cape Codders, summer residents and tourists all check out and enjoy together.
2. People From Cape Cod Are The Equivalent Of Hospitality Majors By The Time They’re 12
If you grew up on the Cape, the chance that you’ve worked in hospitality is akin to the probability you’ve seen the Empire State Building if you’re from New York City—it’s pretty much a given.
Whether Cape Codders grew up washing dishes, valeting cars, waiting tables or hanging out and not doing too much in a hotel lobby, chances are they were being paid to make tourists feel happy during the summer from a super young age. But hey, at least it was usually a tax-free under-the-table situation.
3. People From Cape Cod Will Use Their Arms to Give You Directions
Cape Cod has a pretty well-documented history since the Pilgrims first crash-landed into Provincetown, but it’s unclear which Cape Codder was the first to realize their area looked a whole lot like one of their appendages, and then use it to give directions accordingly.
Can you blame them? It’s so easy, considering the Cape is shaped like a muscle in flex position, albeit one with a pretty shaky looking forearm and finger section. Want to get to Chatham? Take 28 directly to the tip of my elbow. You really can’t miss it.
4. People From Cape Cod Are Crazy About Their Throwback Look
Driving along the Cape, it’s hard not to notice the distinctively quaint and uniform look nearly every building and possesses. Everything from gourmet restaurants to gas stations seems to have a gabled roof, shingled siding, and white New England-style window frames. You could forgive an outsider for accusing the look of vaguely reminding them of “The Stepford Wives.”
People who live on the Cape, however, love their regions self-assured clean throwback look. When travelling off Cape, they tend to wonder why everything can’t look as positively fairytale-esque as their home town.
5. People From Cape Cod Are Always On The Golf Course
While plenty of Cape Codders golf, even if they don’t, they couldn’t throw a pebble three times without hitting one—regular or miniature. In total, there are 27 public and 15 private golf courses on the Cape, meaning even if you’ve never swatted a club in the general direction of a ball, you’ve probably either worked at a course or thrown down some buffet-style banquet food at one.
Also, for anyone who’s grown up on the Cape, golf courses tend to be the second most popular spot for unsanctioned and impromptu after-hours parties, just behind the beach.
6. People From Cape Cod Live For The Offseason
Most people think of Cape Cod as a summer spot, but people who live there year round treasure the fall, when the tourists have left, the people who summer there have gone back to where they spring, fall and winter, and places that were formerly booming tourists spots go back to looking something more like quaint New England towns they were meant to be.
Plus, it’s still nice enough out to hang on the beach, and around November and December, New England foliage is at its finest. Oh yeah, and the traffic ceases to be a complete nightmare.
7. People From Cape Cod Resent Being Viewed As Nothing More Than A Tourist Spot
Hey tourists, take it easy on the dunes. They’re eroding! You do know that there are people who exist here before and after you’ve come, swam on the beach, eaten your clams and left, right?
Many Cape Coders are in business of being hospitable—quite literally—but it doesn’t stop them from occasionally cursing visitors for congesting their towns, clogging their roads and blocking them from getting beach parking spots. Although, it’s usually behind your back or in their own heads. For the most part, they’ll be super friendly to your face.
8. People From Cape Cod Are In Their Own Little World
Since getting onto and off of the Cape requires taking the Bourne or the Sagamore, which can be a pretty big hassle, Cape Codders can’t help but feeling occasionally stuck on their side of the bridge, in a world where sandals are acceptable nearly year round and almost everything closes at 10 p.m. or earlier.
Since people from the Cape generally like living there, they mostly don’t mind. But growing up, they can’t help wondering, just a bit, what “off-Cape” life is like. This is doubly true if they’re from Martha’s Vineyard or Nantucket.
9. People From Cape Cod Have Sailors’ Mouths (Even If They’ve Never Stepped Foot On A Boat)
No, we don’t mean swearing. If you’re from the Cape, there’s a decent chance you’ve spent a significant amount of time on a boat—in Chatham, for instance, there are an astounding 4,158 boats for every 10,000 residents. This means folks from the Cape tend to be more familiar than an average person with, for instance, just how fast a knot actually is. Speaking of knots, they might actually know how and when to tie a bowline or a hitch.
But even if they haven’t spent a single second at sea, Cape Codders are still bound to know some sailor speak, considering so many things around the Cape, including streets (Bowline Ln, Larboard Ln) golf courses (Starboard), and hotels (Mainstay Motor Inn) bear nautical names.
10. People From Cape Cod Are Ice Cream Snobs
They say that even bad ice cream is still good, but lesser, mass-produced, subpar ice cream doesn’t cut it for Cape Codders, who have grown up spoiled by a feasting on gourmet ice cream concoctions from some of the best craft creameries in the country.
From Sundae School to Cape Cod Creamery to Four Seas Ice Cream to The Ice Cream Smuggler, on the Cape you’ll find more next-level ice cream experiences packed into a few miles than you can find in most states, which is good, because Cape Codders won’t settle for anything less.
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