Why consider Whidbey Island?

Gertrude Stein is said to have made this comment about “places”. “There’s no there, there”

“Who dreams of living in suburbia today?…Since 1960, the first ring of suburban counties has been losing its percentage share of the national population...I have identified 709 [U.S.] counties that are being transformed into Anti-Suburbia. Penturbia, as I call it, has in abundance what suburbia lacks: beautiful open space, mostly uncongested rural roads, clean air and water as well as friendly communities. Anti-Suburbia…will grow...[A]ided by technological advances that encourage telecommuting, penturbia is nothing like suburbia or its recent imitators: exurbia and edge cities…whereas suburbia is essentially urban, penturbia is a network of farms, open space, 5- to 10-acre tracts, tiny villages and towns and small cities diffused throughout…”. Prof. Jack Lessinger (1979) Penturbia

Come join us on Wonderful Whidbey Island – there’s a “here”, here.

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