I moved to the Outer Banks of North Carolina in August, 2004 from Northern Virginia where I had lived for over twenty years. I am a Raleigh native whose first visit to the Outer Banks was in August 1997.  Smitten by the charm and history of the Outer Banks, my husband and I purchased a beach house in Nags Head in 2001.  When my husband was caught in a corporate downsizing in 2003 (after retiring from the Army Corps of Engineers), we saw it as our...