The new beach

For almost all of my adult life I have been visiting Morehead City/Atlantic Beach NC area. Recently there have been some very disturbing things going on at Atlantic Beach. The "Circle" was sold by the town to a private citizen and he has posted a sign on the corner, Grove the New Beach. What the heck was wrong with the "old" beach? Within the last couple of years two piers have been torn down to make way for condos, and if that was not bad enough, some person also tore down Jungle Land for the sake of even more condos. Pray tell, why does anyone want to go to Atlantic Beach anymore, there certainly is not anything for the family to do there. Oh, I beg your pardon, I think I know the answer, poor folks are not welcome there!! Somewhere along the way folks have forgotten that it was the average, everyday, working person that built the entire island, not just the Atlantic Beach section, up to what it was a couple of years ago. Now it seems that all they want are the folks that afford the condos, boats, shopping, and resturants. Places for the campers/mobile homes are disappearing as if Houdini himself were there. I wonder how many children will not learn to fish beacuse soon there may be no fishing piers left on the island.