We think something as temporary as shifting sands as being immutable. It isn't. The Outer Banks of NC used to be a hundred miles offshore. This barrier of sand is shifting west and south........fast. For instance, Topsail Island in the vicinity of Wilmington is literally leapfrogging in this direction. It has lost acres and acres of land from the north side to be deposited to the south side over the last generation or so. Homes have been lost and new land has been created. Hatteras Light was relocated inland so as not to fall into the sea as a lighthouse in the Charleston/Folly Beach area is now doing. I know people who have million-dollar waterfront homes on the OBX who are wondering if they will have that home next year and if they decide to sell whether they will be a buyer for such a possibly temporary dwelling. Always wanting to have a place by the water, two years ago I visited the Pamlico Sound area and drove out to view a house. There was standing water in the state-maintained road going into that neighborhood and there had been no appreciable rain there for days. The sound level was just mere inches below the level of the yard and any kind of wind/rain event would flood the yard.

So maybe the Puget Sound instead, except for the earthquakes, tsunamis, and occasional volcanic eruptions, and pyroclastic mud flows, right?