[quote=briansd1][quote=UCGal]What no mention of the Jersey Shore? Of course people don’t go “to the beach” they go “down the shore”.[/quote]

Good point. I still have not seen the TV show.[/quote]
Either have I.

I was talking about the non-reality tv, but actual real life Jersey shore. My husband’s family has a bungalow (owned by several aunts/uncles – used by all the cousins, etc.) in North Wildwood. It’s a definite beach culture… but unrecognizable from what we would call beach culture. Folks migrate there for the season or for weekends. People buy shares in a rental (so you may be sharing a seasonal rental with 12 other people… and any friends they bring along.) Off season many of these towns become ghost towns.

Different towns have different cultures.
Cape May – quaint bed and breakfasts, lots of yuppies, very refined. Big money yachts.
Wildwood Crest – families, suburbia visitors.
Wildwood – lots of tatoo shops, a great boardwalk, drunk teenagers on weekends.
North Wildwood – somewhere between Wildwood and Wildwood Crest – more family oriented again – but watch out for the drunks on Irish weekend.
Stone Harbor Avalon, Sea Isle City – etc… Young yuppies. Folks with money who don’t want to deal with Wildwood. Again some serious dough in the marinas.
Ocean City, Margate, Ventnor… no these aren’t just properties on Monopoly…
Atlantic City – well… The donald likes it there.
Brigantine, Dover, Long Branch… I’m less familiar with the towns north of AC.
Etc… on up to New York.
Each town has it’s own culture.

It’s a different beach culture than San Diego. But it still involves sand, waves, etc.

Where the Jersey shore has San Diego beat – there are roaming ice cream vendors on the beach… My kids have been trained to listen for the “fudgie wudgie” guy. I’m sure it’s against the law, here.