ROFL Oh boy don’t I know it...
Sometime I will tell the group about Ms. Brown and the septic system... Oh, or the electrical inspection - maybe the building permit requirement that you had to have an approved perc test before the permit but you couldn’t get the perc certified till you had a permit... Catch 22 Told them I was sitting in their office till they could figure out who was going to be first and who was going to be second. (Permit office wrote a letter stating that I intended to get the permit so the perc could be certified then back to permit office..)
The problem is when you are going through it, you can’t afford to make too many waves as you said - then you say wait till I am done with it and then I will do something about it - but we no longer have a horse in that race so we do nothing...
Or the water quality test . New wells hardly ever test drinkable until they have been flushed for a few weeks so everyone just gets water to send for a test from someone elses older well. What a money making racket. I like to remind them at town hall that I can remember when one person did the work of town clerk, treasurer, tax collector, notary public and justice of the peace. She left as they wouldn’t give her a raise after 20 years at the same salary and now it takes 15 people to do her work. What is more fustrating is that my hubby ran a plumbing and heating business before retirement and he knows most of these new regulations are not really necessary.
By the way, I live a few miles East of Hollis, Maine nearer the ocean. Just love harvesting seaweed for my compost pile.