Mike J;
Best to watch generalizations, I think, regarding what ANY population thinks about ANYTHING.
Which locals do you identifiy? The businesses in the area? The ranchers? The counterculture types? The caddies and BDGR employees?
I know one woman in the area....retired school teacher, thoughtful, kinda liberal, who is of the opinion that the local Bandon community doesn't benefit enough from the success of BDGR. I have the hardest time convincing her of the economic benefit that no doubt is felt in the community, or of the hundreds of thousands of dollars that Mr. and Mrs. Keiser donate annually to educational, environmental, and social-need groups here, contributions that are reported in the local press. She, IMO, turns a blind eye to what is obviously, to me at least, of great benefit to all of us. I think I would, in general, agree that the counterculture/'environmental' types are the groups most likely to have some resistance, as they tend, I believe, to see any venture of this sort as something to immediately object to. But certainly that resistance is not seen across the spectrum, here. Nor is it a dominant position, IMO.
It's a big world, even here in little old Bandon.
Tom