Until last fall, there was one exception: the Star of the Sea, the only real budget lodging on the island, where a bed cost $40 a night. On Nantucket, the aesthetic leans Quaker, but the prices are full-on Kardashian, and the spirit of the global elite is the one that has come to dominate. Never mind that all the cute two-bedroom cottages are $1.5-million teardowns, summer-house rentals run to more than $30,000 per week, and a bagel with smoked salmon will cost you $21. Which is very much how Nantucket, 30 miles off the coast of Cape Cod, likes to think of itself: straightforward and unsullied, a place where nearly all the buildings are gray-shingled - the cedar loses its coppery color over the course of a few winters - and roses still climb over low wooden fences and up the siding. She should know: She spent the past 35 summers at a little cottage on Nantucket next door to the Star of the Sea Hostel, an operation of roughly 40 beds in a repurposed lifesaving station, up the bluffs from Surfside Beach. “It was simple and it didn’t change,” said Sharon Ames.
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