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Old 06-12-2015, 03:33 PM
 
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Originally Posted by Ziggy100 View Post
You've just described Kiawah.
Yes the beach should be free unless you're willing to restore it when it erodes away, maintain and build your own streets and bridges, and pay unsubsidized flood insurance.
By your rationale you shouldn't be able to go to Mount Pleasant or James Island from the beach unless you own a home there and pay local taxes.
We have our own bridge. We charge a toll to cross it to pay for it.

We actually accept no FEMA funds ever for actual beach or boardwalk in my town as we dont want to make them public. We did get fema money for sewers, tree triming, repair city hall.

And flood insurance is not a beach thing only. My condo is an upper unit I got no damage in Sandy. My primary house which is not that close to water had around $100,000 in damage in Sandy.

All in all my primary residence town got far more damage than the beach town. It was even more expensive as around 40% of town had no flood insurance as it never flooded and I am not near water. So tons of Fema/HUD/Red Cross type of assistance to rebuild. Heck my Daughters one level school had six feet of water in it and Federal funds fixed all that. Kinda a myth Sandy was mainly beach houses. My neighbor who owns a beach house in Point Lookout NY stayed at beach house for six months while his non-beach house was being rebuilt.
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