Snippet from a longer article at
http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2013/04/green_bank_w_v_where_the_electrosensitive_can_escape_the_modern_world.htmlSome residents of Green Bank, along with the nearby town of
Marlinton—also in the Radio Quiet Zone—apparently aren’t thrilled about
this influx.* According to Schou, many locals are reluctant to rent
housing to people with EHS, perhaps a result of the fact that in a
remote area with few job opportunities, any new arrivals only heighten
competition—and maybe because they’re likely to ask for special
treatment. Schou told me that since she requested to have the
fluorescent lights shut off at the community center, she’s faced intense
discrimination: Packages have been stolen from her porch, and she once
found a dead groundhog in her mailbox. “I’ve been told, ‘We don’t want
your kind of people here,’ ” she said. Cooney was banned from the radio
observatory for bringing up radiation issues at a town meeting held
there and says her tires have been punctured in the night more than
once. (I tried to talk to some locals about their new neighbors—but it’s
hard to do a man-on-the-street interview in an area with so few streets
or proverbial men.)
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