Ted, people will move there whether I write about it or not. I don’t have that kind of sway. Consider this: I lived in Denver, NEVER wrote about Denver, for fifty years.Five million people moved there. That doesn’t have a damned thing to do with me. That’s population growth and overwhelm. People will move to the the coast because they can. That has nothing to do with what I write. Population growth has far more to do with where people move, and Covid made it possible for those with substantial incomes working for Big Tech to toddle off where they like. People like the coast. They are moving there irrespective of anything I write.

So while I understand your point, it’s misdirected. You want to be frustrated, be frustrated at population growth. I’m not the source of the problem, that is. People will move where they want, when they want for reasons having not a damned thing to do with anything I ever write. You talk to people, as I do, ALL over America and the world, in every small pretty town from Ashville to Asbury to any other continent, and the precise same thing is happening.

It’s not about our precious coast. It’s our entire world. People want out of the city, they want to live in pretty places, they pick up and move to pretty places and turn them into cities. There’s not a damned thing new or unique about it. It’s happened to mountain towns and coastal towns and mining towns all over the place. I’m going to keep right on writing because that’s what I do for a living, I’m a travel blogger. And I have to simply ignore all the comments about how other people are moving in and ruining our town.

Kindly, talk to indigenous people about that, Ted. Talk to them about people moving in, shoving them aside, and taking over pretty land. Everyone does it. It’s what humans do. They move in, take over, and shove other people aside and out. The more people have babies, the less room there is. I’m not the author of that.

There is no such thing as “our town.” America belongs to Americans and they can move anywhere they like. We can’t put a padlock on the entrance to town no matter how badly we might want to. I can tell you from first-hand experience that exp-pat communities from Cuenca, Ecuador to Panama to Portugal feel precisely the same way about Americans who move in, shove folks aside, run the prices up and “RUIN IT FOR THE LOCALS.”

There are all kinds of relocation businesses and developers and real estate folks urging people to move and buy. Want a target? There’s your target. I write about visiting a place and leaving. Not moving there.

If you don’t like what you see happening, how about teaching men to keep their dicks zipped so that we stop having so many babies? Good luck with that. Meanwhile, learn to love your neighbor. I hear that’s a good policy,when new neighbors are moving in all the time. Until you and I are wealthy enough to own our own town and put a medieval moat around the damned thing and line it with pikes and swords, we might learn to live with each other. Works for me.