The 90 percent solution: Lowering taxes for year-round residents

The 90 percent solution: Lowering taxes for year-round residents

To the editor: In 1999, my wife Maureen and I bought a house in Great Barrington. We had moved to the Berkshires 10 years earlier and had lived in the hill towns outside the Housatonic Valley for that first decade. With two young children, we cobbled together some savings of our own with a little help from family for a very modest down payment. Maureen and I had become masters of the “Berkshire Shuffle,” taking advantage of every opportunity in …