There’s the Nantucket people see — summer, clean, easy. And then there’s the one people actually live. The one shaped by jobs, housing, family decisions — and whether you can afford to stay.

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Rocky Fox’s story sits in that reality. Not as an exception — as something a lot of people here know firsthand. Starting off-island because you have to. Coming back when you can. Trying to find your footing in a place where that’s never guaranteed.
 

This isn’t about arriving, it’s about staying — what it takes to do it without a cushion, and what it means for the island when the people who keep it running have to work this hard just to remain part of it.