The people I really feel for are the poor black folks out on the barrier
islands. They have owned their land for generations but their property
taxes have gone up to the point that they are being forced to sell to the
developers.

--
Glenn Ashmore

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"Roger Long" wrote in news:%DoCf.146409$XC4.144502
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Everytime I read about these kinds of things, I think back to a quote in
the newspaper from a Beaufort, SC, waterfront mansion owner. She didn't
want that "floating trailer park" blocking her view she'd paid $1.2M for.

Could it be they're trying to get rid of boating for these kinds of
people?

The tax bureaucrats are....

I live in Beaufort and the problem is that we have a transplant Yankee for
a
mayor. Btw, he is the one that got the bridge schedule change several
years
ago. So many people have come here because of the laid back charm. After
a
while they get bored and try to change it to the way they did it up north.
I
am a transplant, but have been here long enough to be naturalized
Beaufortonian and can still see the beauty as it is. You are right about
the
tax bureaucrats. We lucked on this old cottage in an estate sale over 20
years ago. Because we are on a deep water creek, the taxes have been going
up every year. The funny part is the house valuation seems to stay the
same,
but the land value has about quadrupled.

Leanne

On Fri, 27 Jan 2006 15:50:16 -0500, Glenn Ashmore wrote:

The people I really feel for are the poor black folks out on the barrier
islands. They have owned their land for generations but their property
taxes have gone up to the point that they are being forced to sell to the
developers.

This is sad, not just because it ruins these people's lives, but
destroys a community and a culture.

The same thing happened in Santa Fe, NM, when all the yuppies and whatnot
started moving in.

Matt O.

"Glenn Ashmore" wrote in
news:fIvCf.13820$Dh.8038@dukeread04:

The people I really feel for are the poor black folks out on the
barrier islands. They have owned their land for generations but their
property taxes have gone up to the point that they are being forced to
sell to the developers.


Don't feel too sorry for them. I fix the organs at their churches.
They're not the stupid people of yesteryear, any more. Many of them, the
smartest of the group, own major interests in those developments on the
more popular islands, like Hilton Head, SC. They live in very nice homes,
drive the finest Mercedes cars and send their children to the best schools,
now. Those Yankees aren't near as smart as they think they are...(c;

Oh, by the way, the AME church pastor's house is a little shack on Sea
Pines Plantation, on the golf course....

The real shame of it all is they lost their roots in the process. Any of
them that are involved with these bigshot deals lost their Gullah language
and the wonderful folklore that goes with it. Stop by some time and I'll
take you out to meet the REAL Gullah people of Coastal SC. I'll drop you
off out on outer Wadmalaw Island where English isn't spoken and we'll see
if you can find your way back to Charleston from the directions given you
in Gullah...(c;

If you ever get invited to an AME church dinner...you ARE in for a treat
that'll put some fat on those bones...