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Article: Nags Head communities have real staying power.(At Home)
- Article from:
- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- April 23, 2005
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Byline: SHIRLEY MOZINGO
Wooded landscapes. Quiet streets. Lush lawns. Budding daffodils. Friendly neighbors. Close to a sparkling pond, a 1,400-acre maritime forest, beach access and all the Outer Banks, N.C., conveniences.
It isn't Emerald City, but for its residents, Nags Head Woods is a no-place-like-home kind of community.
It's the type of place where you have a neighbor when you need one, said Dick Harper , a broker with Prudential Resort Realty who moved into his house on Compass Lane in 1985.
"But they're also busy enough with their own business to not interfere in yours."
Twenty years ago, Harper and a neighbor ...