I live on the beach. Too bad it's freezing cold 99% of the time.
[QUOTE=Teddybeer;42967379]Living near the coast here means you will rarely see snow even when the rest of the country has layers of it. And tourists everywhere in the summer making parking god damn impossible.[/QUOTE]
Same thing for me, I live on the coast of the estuary formed between Long Island and Connecticut, so it's always warmer during the winter and cooler during the summer where I live.
[QUOTE=kaine123;42967710]Same thing for me, I live on the coast of the estuary formed between Long Island and Connecticut, so it's always warmer during the winter and cooler during the summer where I live.[/QUOTE]
It's also humid as fuck, and the tourism in our area is absurd.
I too live on the coast. In fact, there's three beaches in walking distance (and an old naval battery and tunnel network, but I digress) and six more within a 20-minute drive.
It also absolutely never snows. in 2011, exactly five snowflakes fell near me and it was the first five (and so far only five) actual snowflakes I'd ever seen physically falling out of the sky.
I really want to go to the old navy relics near me, but the only thing I have access to is an old bunker. The rest are behind an actual navy outpost.
I was once allowed in there during a school hike. I swear to god, there's an entire tunnel fortress in walking distance.
I live about 200 meters from the beach. The good thing about it is how it keeps the temperature cooler in summer (can vary 10c within 5km) and warmer in winter. While I would love it to snow, not that it ever will here, I don't deal with heat very well, so I would rather be close to the beach where it is cooler in summer.
Here it hasn't snowed in like 15 years. In the whole country.
The two things we have each 25 years are snow and earthquakes.
Man something I find unsettling to think about is all the hassle people living exactly in the middle of the US have to go through, just to see a beach. I am thankful for living relatively close to the shore.
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And this is where I live:
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Anyone who lives very far from the shore, would you mind telling me how do you manage? This is really something I always think about.
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Anyone who lives very far from the shore, would you mind telling me how do you manage? This is really something I always think about.[/QUOTE]
lakes
[QUOTE=kirby2112;42967872]It's also humid as fuck, and the tourism in our area is absurd.[/QUOTE]
I agree that the humidity can suck sometimes, but I've never had any issues with tourists. Well, aside from the occasional person asking for directions in broken English.
[QUOTE=kaine123;42968409]I agree that the humidity can suck sometimes, but I've never had any issues with tourists. Well, aside from the occasional person asking for directions in broken English.[/QUOTE]
I can't mow my lawn in the summer without someone asking me where abbots (a popular restaurant in my town) is :c
[QUOTE=Techs;42968203]Man something I find unsettling to think about is all the hassle people living exactly in the middle of the US have to go through, just to see a beach. I am thankful for living relatively close to the shore.
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And this is where I live:
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Anyone who lives very far from the shore, would you mind telling me how do you manage? This is really something I always think about.[/QUOTE]
middle of nowhere here
i never go outside but i went to the beach when I was a kid and have absolutely no memory of it, but a video was recorded and i was apparently terrified of the water washing over my feet
[QUOTE=Zukriuchen;42967141]you dont have to live in a high class neighborhood next to the beach to enjoy that kind of life. id be fine living [i]near[/i] a place like that. i just dont get the fascination people have with living right next to the beach, from my experience, its just better to live like, 30min - 1h away from it and you can enjoy the best of both worlds.[/QUOTE]
Well in Florida you're not more than 65 or so miles away from a beach at any given location, and I still hate it.
same for England because of how small this island is, but tbh British beaches are nothing special, they're pebbly, coarse, and the one time it's not overcast/windy/raining slightly they're absolutely packed with battenburg coloured landwhales and chavs
[QUOTE=kirby2112;42968457]I can't mow my lawn in the summer without someone asking me where abbots (a popular restaurant in my town) is :c[/QUOTE]
I always like to fuck around in the background when I see people taking photos in Downtown.
[QUOTE=Techs;42968203]Man something I find unsettling to think about is all the hassle people living exactly in the middle of the US have to go through, just to see a beach. I am thankful for living relatively close to the shore.
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At least you don't live at 46°17′N 86°40′E
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1,644 mi from the coast.
That is Chinas border with Kazakhstan. Man that is a huge area of land.
I live in a small country with lots of coastline on all sides. I can't go anywhere except Germany without falling into the water.
This picture was taken in the City where I live:
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/T9xeA8z.jpg[/IMG]
[QUOTE=Bonde;42969337]That is Chinas border with Khazakstan, am I right?[/QUOTE]
Yeah.
At least you don't live on a fucking tiny island with water all around:
[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e3/Singapore-CIA_WFB_Map.png[/img]
Btw even if you don't live near the coast here, chances are, the properties are still more expensive than what you're staying in now.
Beachfront properties here cost 1 Mil and above.
Ah, the joys of living in such a fucking expensive country.
[QUOTE=Techs;42968203]Man something I find unsettling to think about is all the hassle people living exactly in the middle of the US have to go through, just to see a beach. I am thankful for living relatively close to the shore.
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Personally ,going to a beach is kind of a luxury that you can afford to live without.
i live 20 mins away from the beach and i haven't gone there in over a year
It's funny. I live in an area of extraordinarily high property prices, that only increase by 4 or 5 times as you approach the beach, but that's what makes the beach so infinitely less interesting. It's not private or beautiful, it's not even natural, it's just a bigass white beach on which one cannot stand without being within a mile of no less than 2 piers and about 200 different multi-million-dollar homes. The view out seaward is permanently occupied by at least 1 oil tanker, and if you look up or down the beach the only thing you'll see is more of the same damned beach. There's not a single square inch of the edge of this beach that isn't occupied by a home of some sort for miles and milesssss. For whatever reason, there's even a [I]beachfront refinery[/I], if the houses weren't bad enough. If you're not into surfing, which thankfully I try to be, it's a waste of space for soccer moms and volleyball bros.
The most beautiful part of the beach isn't the beach itself but the coastline bordering it.
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Some Pixel art
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I love the last one, has a really eerie feel to it
Live in eastbourne
Famous for its pier and 3rd most famous spot for suicide!
[IMG]http://mufidahkassalias.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/eastbourne-pier.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c2/Beachy_Head_and_Lighthouse%2C_UK.jpg[/IMG]
While were on the subject of coasts, I don't live near the coasts.
The lakefront however is a different story.
[img]http://addictions.uchicago.edu/LakeShoreDrivePic.jpg[/img]
[sp]In case you couldn't tell, it's Lake Shore Drive, the drive in Chicago that drives along Lake Michigan.[/sp]
It's a short drive from McKinley Park where I'm at.
[QUOTE=cr2142;42970694]Live in eastbourne
Famous for its pier and 3rd most famous spot for suicide!
[IMG]http://mufidahkassalias.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/eastbourne-pier.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c2/Beachy_Head_and_Lighthouse%2C_UK.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]
That pier! Those buildings shouldn't be on it! It looks like the pier should break! And that cliff picture is pretty deceiving. It looks much small until you notice the black spots on the left of the picture are actually people.
[QUOTE=cr2142;42970694]Live in eastbourne
Famous for its pier and 3rd most famous spot for suicide!
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Crap, I forgot the famous river Cuckmere
Winds all the way down, always go over it on my trip to Brighton
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[QUOTE=Pvt. Martin;42971022]While were on the subject of coasts, I don't live near the coasts.
The lakefront however is a different story.
[img]http://addictions.uchicago.edu/LakeShoreDrivePic.jpg[/img]
[sp]In case you couldn't tell, it's Lake Shore Drive, the drive in Chicago that drives along Lake Michigan.[/sp]
It's a short drive from McKinley Park where I'm at.[/QUOTE]
It would be so much better if it wasn't so cold for most of the year.
[QUOTE=cr2142;42970694]Live in eastbourne
Famous for its pier and 3rd most famous spot for suicide!
[IMG]http://mufidahkassalias.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/eastbourne-pier.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c2/Beachy_Head_and_Lighthouse%2C_UK.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]
hey! its the beach where the fight happened in quadraphobia!
Reading past this thread makes me realize how lucky I am for living in this small box of a country, 15 minutes of biking to get to the beach doesnt seem like a such a chore anymore.
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Also I just realized that we are in dire need of decent some photographers.
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