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the impact of the new market prices of homes in the towns and communities that dot the southern part of Frederick County.”
SOUND familiar? It should; it’s the same thing that’s been happening in Rappahannock County in recent years. And in Maryland as in Virginia, the same pattern is enacted by newcomers—they find services and facilities are not up to their demands, and they exert political pressure to install their suburban standards to a still-rural community. The result, higher taxes and still higher taxes.
It has always perplexed us why people move to the country when they don’t really like country living. They want sidewalks and sewer systems, paved roads and central water, a policeman at every cross road and recreation centers. They say they love it out here, but every tiling they want would destroy the very thing they say they love.
Well, we like Rappahannock as a rural county. There’s probably little hope that it can stay entirely rural, what with real estate prices going the way they are. But it would be nice if newcomers weren’t so determined to transplant the District of Columbia or Fairfax County onto these hills when they moved out. We want to keep living pleasant for them, too. □
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