Vacation/slash/escape property?

H/T to Tam, who's snark casts a long shadow.  This story on 'Them Rich City Folk' running to their 'vacation' homes to escape The Rona.   

As far as the locals are concerned, they can stay back in the city, and keep their damn disease to themselves.

As far back as I can recall, I've been 'mindful' of threats big and small.  I'm careful walking on ice. I keep serious meds locked up where kids can't get them. I lock my doors (and windows when I'm not home) to protect anyone who might break in.  I pay attention to the weather forecast.   I also try to be thoughtful about societal trends big and small, watching for what might prove dangerous to me and mine.

Through all that, I've never hankered a 'bug out spot'.  My reasoning?  If I need a place to bug out, it means I'm living in the wrong damn place already.  Better to live in a good place from the word go, yes?

Well, Flupocalypageddan is upon us, and many Rich Folk who have a vacation home 'someplace quiet and nice' are thinking it would be cool to have a few months of off-season vacation while the bodies are being stacked back home.

 “The relationship between full-time residents and part-timers is already at a breaking point,” Jean Hardy, who’s currently finishing his doctoral degree in rural technology and economic development at the University of Michigan, told me. “There is an intense wealth gap that’s only going to be reinforced and exacerbated. And the perceived urban/rural divide is only going to get worse in that the continued reliance on rural areas as a place of respite is only going to get worse.”

One might get the impression the people who live in those nice quiet places full time might be getting their backs up. The uppity snits they tolerate for a month or two over the summer may NOT BE WELCOME just right now.  Nothing says go home like a police check point, and armed men telling you to turn that fancy SUV around and 'Get Back Whar Ya Came From'.

"In Dare County, North Carolina — the Outer Banks — police have set up a checkpoint to turn back anyone, even a second-home owner, who’s not a full-time resident. The tiny island of North Haven, Maine, has banned all visitors, including people who own property, while locals in Vinalhaven tried to forcibly quarantine three people by downing a tree across their street because their car had out-of-state plates. In Marfa, Texas, like dozens of other vacation spots across the country, the local government has requested that all short-term rentals be shut down. But locals I spoke to in Marfa and in towns across the West suspect that people are still renting under the table, or have simply transformed their Airbnbs into three-to-four-month furnished rentals and are listing them on Zillow, Craigslist, and Facebook Community Pages instead."

On the other side of that coin, there are people who own second homes.... OWN them.... and want access to their property. Period. They have every right to expect access, and every right to defend their right.

It all sounds like a culture clash, writ large.  One side has money and lawyers.  The other side has weapons, chainsaws, and all year long to convert vacations homes into smoking holes in the ground.

Push comes to shove.... who knows?