Hajji Giray I said:
P.S. How can anybody stand to live on the Outer Banks? It's miles from everything, all the houses on stilts could get wiped away by a hurricane, the evacuation route (!) promises to be under 7 feet of water if anything happens, and the only really good place to eat is "BOB'S RESTAURANT: Eat and Get the Hell Out!" in Nags Head!
Living on the Outer Banks is fun. Kind of like when you ride out to a really really big sandbar in a boat and hop out to walk around on it before the tide comes in. Of course, we used to ride out to where the sand bars where about a foot under water, in the middle of the channels play football or frisbee, so that it looked, from the shore anyway, as if we were walking on waters
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Okay, so there's not THAT much do do out there.
Seriously, they are a good place to go to "get away from it all" but not if you are looking for any sort of night-life or social interaction at all. During the last major hurricane, a new inlet was created when one of the southern islands was split in two. But rather than simply letting nature take it's course the state spend millions to "patch" the inlet, filled it in, stabliized it, and now everything's back to normal, until the same storm.
Seems kind of silly, doesn't it? Kind of like people who get flooded, then rebuild their house in the same place, in the flood plain. But if it's any consolation at all few North Carolinians actually live or have property south of Manteo. Most of the homes are vacation properties and belong to people from DC and Virginia!
