I’ll save my comments for the inevitable post to come.

But here’s where I think the island mentality is valuable. We used to be the same way every time we went to Target — but after living for three years in Newport where the only easily available big boxes were the NEX (’nuff said) and the ghetto Wal-Mart (the “break glass in case of emergency” of big stores), we’re now far less likely to go to Target on a whim and almost never impulse buy there.

I think I was the only person I knew who was happy when Portsmouth shot down Target…