OT – Beach Culture. Florida, Texas, Hawaii, California? Which is best?

[UCGal]

[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.

[sdrealtor]

Ah yes the fudgie wudgie guys! The beaches there are also much cleaner as the cleaned every morning during the season. However, you have to buy a beach badge to get access to the beach.

You glossed over the nicest part which is Ventnor, Margate and Longport. That where the big Philly/South Jersey money is. Also missed LBI (Long Beach Island) which is a wonderful quiet island very similar to the Carolinas with sand dunes. Above that it gets New Yorkie and very crowded aka Seaside Heights (home of Jersey Shore reality show)

[sdrealtor]

Ah yes the fudgie wudgie guys! The beaches there are also much cleaner as the cleaned every morning during the season. However, you have to buy a beach badge to get access to the beach.

You glossed over the nicest part which is Ventnor, Margate and Longport. That where the big Philly/South Jersey money is. Also missed LBI (Long Beach Island) which is a wonderful quiet island very similar to the Carolinas with sand dunes. Above that it gets New Yorkie and very crowded aka Seaside Heights (home of Jersey Shore reality show)

[sdrealtor]

Ah yes the fudgie wudgie guys! The beaches there are also much cleaner as the cleaned every morning during the season. However, you have to buy a beach badge to get access to the beach.

You glossed over the nicest part which is Ventnor, Margate and Longport. That where the big Philly/South Jersey money is. Also missed LBI (Long Beach Island) which is a wonderful quiet island very similar to the Carolinas with sand dunes. Above that it gets New Yorkie and very crowded aka Seaside Heights (home of Jersey Shore reality show)

[sdrealtor]

Ah yes the fudgie wudgie guys! The beaches there are also much cleaner as the cleaned every morning during the season. However, you have to buy a beach badge to get access to the beach.

You glossed over the nicest part which is Ventnor, Margate and Longport. That where the big Philly/South Jersey money is. Also missed LBI (Long Beach Island) which is a wonderful quiet island very similar to the Carolinas with sand dunes. Above that it gets New Yorkie and very crowded aka Seaside Heights (home of Jersey Shore reality show)

[sdrealtor]

Ah yes the fudgie wudgie guys! The beaches there are also much cleaner as the cleaned every morning during the season. However, you have to buy a beach badge to get access to the beach.

You glossed over the nicest part which is Ventnor, Margate and Longport. That where the big Philly/South Jersey money is. Also missed LBI (Long Beach Island) which is a wonderful quiet island very similar to the Carolinas with sand dunes. Above that it gets New Yorkie and very crowded aka Seaside Heights (home of Jersey Shore reality show)

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

I have been to “the shore” and it is no where near the southern california culture.

It is the exactly as they would have you believe from TV.

For my money I like So. Cal… Cant argue against the legend!

CE

[CDMA ENG]

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

I have been to “the shore” and it is no where near the southern california culture.

It is the exactly as they would have you believe from TV.

For my money I like So. Cal… Cant argue against the legend!

CE

[CDMA ENG]

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

I have been to “the shore” and it is no where near the southern california culture.

It is the exactly as they would have you believe from TV.

For my money I like So. Cal… Cant argue against the legend!

CE

[CDMA ENG]

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

I have been to “the shore” and it is no where near the southern california culture.

It is the exactly as they would have you believe from TV.

For my money I like So. Cal… Cant argue against the legend!

CE

[CDMA ENG]

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

I have been to “the shore” and it is no where near the southern california culture.

It is the exactly as they would have you believe from TV.

For my money I like So. Cal… Cant argue against the legend!

CE

[UCGal]

[quote=sdrealtor]Ah yes the fudgie wudgie guys! The beaches there are also much cleaner as the cleaned every morning during the season. However, you have to buy a beach badge to get access to the beach.

You glossed over the nicest part which is Ventnor, Margate and Longport. That where the big Philly/South Jersey money is. Also missed LBI (Long Beach Island) which is a wonderful quiet island very similar to the Carolinas with sand dunes. Above that it gets New Yorkie and very crowded aka Seaside Heights (home of Jersey Shore reality show)[/quote]
I glossed over because my husband’s family is more blue collar – North Wildwood types.
But one of his wealthier cousins has a place in Margate.

[UCGal]

[quote=sdrealtor]Ah yes the fudgie wudgie guys! The beaches there are also much cleaner as the cleaned every morning during the season. However, you have to buy a beach badge to get access to the beach.

You glossed over the nicest part which is Ventnor, Margate and Longport. That where the big Philly/South Jersey money is. Also missed LBI (Long Beach Island) which is a wonderful quiet island very similar to the Carolinas with sand dunes. Above that it gets New Yorkie and very crowded aka Seaside Heights (home of Jersey Shore reality show)[/quote]
I glossed over because my husband’s family is more blue collar – North Wildwood types.
But one of his wealthier cousins has a place in Margate.

[UCGal]

[quote=sdrealtor]Ah yes the fudgie wudgie guys! The beaches there are also much cleaner as the cleaned every morning during the season. However, you have to buy a beach badge to get access to the beach.

You glossed over the nicest part which is Ventnor, Margate and Longport. That where the big Philly/South Jersey money is. Also missed LBI (Long Beach Island) which is a wonderful quiet island very similar to the Carolinas with sand dunes. Above that it gets New Yorkie and very crowded aka Seaside Heights (home of Jersey Shore reality show)[/quote]
I glossed over because my husband’s family is more blue collar – North Wildwood types.
But one of his wealthier cousins has a place in Margate.

[UCGal]

[quote=sdrealtor]Ah yes the fudgie wudgie guys! The beaches there are also much cleaner as the cleaned every morning during the season. However, you have to buy a beach badge to get access to the beach.

You glossed over the nicest part which is Ventnor, Margate and Longport. That where the big Philly/South Jersey money is. Also missed LBI (Long Beach Island) which is a wonderful quiet island very similar to the Carolinas with sand dunes. Above that it gets New Yorkie and very crowded aka Seaside Heights (home of Jersey Shore reality show)[/quote]
I glossed over because my husband’s family is more blue collar – North Wildwood types.
But one of his wealthier cousins has a place in Margate.

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