I guess they forget all the money non residents pour into the community in other ways like purchasing fuel, food, ice, slips, marine services, and other supplies.
Genuine adventure isn't available mail order. It isn't delivered to your door like pizza. You have to apply imagination and actively seek the extraordinary if you want great barroom stories
Almost everyone has a golden recollection in their past, from which they draw to refuel life in the present. Very often, those memories are the product of instinctive initiative and some stretch of their imagination- a few moments in their life when they chose to believe in the impossible.
~ Kansas Stamps