Even $150,000 a year isn’t enough to buy groceries on America’s most exclusive island.
Sarah had $40 in her bank account and an impossible decision. A few years ago, the college-educated marketing professional stood in a Nantucket grocery store, forced to choose between dinner for herself or a birthday cake for her nine-year-old son.
She chose the cake and went hungry for three nights. Mind you, this wasn’t happening in some cash-strapped small town—this was on a glittering island paradise where summer visitors drop $1,000 a night on hotel rooms while mega-yachts glisten in the harbor like floating mansions.
