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WHAT'S ALL THE FUSS ABOUT LIVING ON THE BEACH ABOUT?

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I have lived on or near Southern California Beaches all my life and I'm hard pressed to see what all the fuss is about. Sure it's nice from a convenience stand point and you certainly can't beat the ambience and the charm that beach life has to offer overall. But I really feel an urge to fess up to some facts that a lot of otherwise envious folks may not be aware of. Nowadays you're really much better off renting a vacation home or at the most buying an affordable second home like a condo, du, tri or even 4plex, or a mobile or manufactuerd home than tying up millions of dollars on a waterfront property even if you have the doe-rey-me.Here's why. Unless you're filthy rich and money just doesn't mean anything the day you purchase a home near a salt water beach (up to a mile inland in most cases) is the day your spending begins and doesn't end till the day you sell.In the first place there are several months out of the year when you are socked in with fog and overcast typically from late April well into July and sometimes even into August. You wake up to a thick layer of overcast called an inversion layer typically known as a "Catalina Eddy". Sometimes it doesn't burn off until late afternoon if at all and usually returns in the evening. Locals refer to it a "May Gray" and "June Gloom" They haven't found names for July and Augest yet but it seems that with every passing year our gray skies extend further and further into the year. Please feel free to view the entire blog with related photos on Active Rain. Just do a search for On The Level and our entire blog will appear.

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"They haven't found names for July and August yet." That made me laugh because it's true. The ocean can be so restful though it is hard to resist the pull of the beautiful Pacific. I checked out the blog too. you might consider adding a link to it your profile on Zillow too so it is easier to find.

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I love the sunny Atlantic and all the costs associated with it are just part of the price here in Florida for warm water and sunny skies. It is alive. You can enjoy beaches virtually absent of humans or kick it up with the spring breakers or snowbirds. And every day in the late afternoon the thunderstorms come and clear it all away so we can start the next day fresh all over again.

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Sorry you are suffering so much for living on the beach. <grin> I'm sure it will be a struggle to find a home owner in an equivalent square footage cottage in the non-beach areas to do a quick trade.

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Ventura County, Ca. 300+ beautiful days a year. So far this year we have had 210 days. By the way, you don't have to spend a fortune for "beach front". Beach neighborhoods are just as good and way more affordable.

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I had a rental on a barrier island for 3 years and I loved it. It wasn't the nicest of places, but the atmosphere was well worth the little bit of extra commute and the slightly older/smaller place than I could have gotten inland for the same money.

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People in SoCal whine too much. Awwww, poor babies, with your "June Gloom" and all.

You want to see what inversion layers are all about, come on up for some San Francisco treat. The gloom is so famous that Mark Twain wrote about it, they made (then remade then remade the remake) a horror movie about it, and it provides enough moisture to irrigate numerous native trees and plants which literally "drink the fog".

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LOL! so true Randy..

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i love fog, and snow, it keeps life interesting. i also love swimming. i would be happy to buy a duplex and trade it for a beach front anyday... go ahead, try me.

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I grew up in SoCal and have spent half my life in OC (Anaheim) and half inland in the IE (Corona/Norco). It doesn't necessarily need to be beach front, but when the temp reaches 110 degrees in the IE and it's a good 30 degrees cooler thirty minutes away near the coast, I can tell you exactly why the coastal areas are so desireable (aside from the obvious attraction of the ocean and beaches).

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Living in a beach town in SoCal is fun and the overcast is starting about these days and last long enough each morning to keep the house cool all day even when the sun starts to come through. Inland weather is always hot and there isn't an ocean breeze to save on using the AC. The fuss is real, the cost is ridiculous. Back in the day the slaves where given only the beach areas to live, they occupied the beaches, they originally occupied the beach towns, and look at us today. Interesting, isn't it? I guess we are all slaves to something. Politically this is the correct way to answer this you know.

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in my country, poor people live by the beach and rich people live in the city. here, it's the other way around....interesting how things are different.

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