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land cleared in Brazil.
Years ago, in the 1960s, I used to go down to Nags Head, on the Outer Banks of North Carolina. There were a few vacation homes there in those days, and one big hotel, as I remember it, but it was mostly a wild place with friendly natives who spoke a lilting dialect.
I recently went back there. The place is Manassas-by-the-Sea, wallto-wall hotels, movie theaters, malls, condos and traffic. It took me three hours to cross the bridge, coming home. The place is ruined. It’s gone, and all the recycling in the world won’t bring it back.
People like to say that development ruined it. No, I don’t buy that. It’s ruined simply because too many people live there or visit there. Too many people in the cities want some place to visit on the ocean. You can’t blame the people - once you’re born, you have as much right to a vacation by the seas as the next person.
Don’t blame the developers - they can only sell a house if there are some additional customers entering the adult population.
Hypocrisy muddies the water. The businessman who wants to see Warrenton grow is planning to retire in Rappahannock County, you can bet on it. The shop owner in little Washington who wants to see more commercial growth has a home further out in the country. If you want more growth, you’ve got to expect the extra people, and you can only expect more development, more expansion, more roads and tra
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