Beach house - does any location meet these criteria?

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Anonymous wrote:San Diego

+1. San Diego is wonderful.

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Tampa bay, South Carolina is where you start getting into 3 seasons of warm weather but not 4. Puerto Rico

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California? Good luck with that though going to hell on a handbrake both in LA and San Diego.

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Anonymous wrote:Tampa bay, South Carolina is where you start getting into 3 seasons of warm weather but not 4. Puerto Rico

South Carolina is very cold in the winter

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Anonymous wrote:California? Good luck with that though going to hell on a handbrake both in LA and San Diego.

+1

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OP, if you want warm all year within 6 hours travel, then you're looking at FL or somewhere outside the US.

Do you have kids? Because proximity is a huge factor if you're tied to the school calendar. It would be difficult to regularly use anything that's more than 3 hours travel.

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With global warning the Hamptons is a great choice. The vast vast majority of Hampton homes are not in a flood zone and are like 2-5 miles from ocean.

Quite unlike NJ shore. The beaches like Flying Point Beach in Southampton is resident only parking and it is just the beach, lifeguard, bathroom, food truck sometimes. All the night life, restaurants, clubs etc are in town.

Easy to get from. I usually drive off peak, but sometimes Acela to Cannonball train or Jitney out of Penn.

My rich friend used to fly out of BWI to McCarther airport on Long Island. Very very short flight. Avoids all the traffic.

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Anonymous wrote:Tampa bay, South Carolina is where you start getting into 3 seasons of warm weather but not 4. Puerto Rico

That’s a hat trick on hurricane vulnerability, though.

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Anonymous wrote:With global warning the Hamptons is a great choice. The vast vast majority of Hampton homes are not in a flood zone and are like 2-5 miles from ocean.

Quite unlike NJ shore. The beaches like Flying Point Beach in Southampton is resident only parking and it is just the beach, lifeguard, bathroom, food truck sometimes. All the night life, restaurants, clubs etc are in town.

Easy to get from. I usually drive off peak, but sometimes Acela to Cannonball train or Jitney out of Penn.

My rich friend used to fly out of BWI to McCarther airport on Long Island. Very very short flight. Avoids all the traffic.

Even with climate change... it isn't warm all year in the hamptons. what an odd suggestion.

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Anonymous wrote:With global warning the Hamptons is a great choice. The vast vast majority of Hampton homes are not in a flood zone and are like 2-5 miles from ocean.

Quite unlike NJ shore. The beaches like Flying Point Beach in Southampton is resident only parking and it is just the beach, lifeguard, bathroom, food truck sometimes. All the night life, restaurants, clubs etc are in town.

Easy to get from. I usually drive off peak, but sometimes Acela to Cannonball train or Jitney out of Penn.

My rich friend used to fly out of BWI to McCarther airport on Long Island. Very very short flight. Avoids all the traffic.

A house 2-5 miles from the ocean is not a beach house.

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I would do Costa Rica

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Anonymous wrote:I would do Costa Rica

Or Panama

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Agree with Costa Rica- there is a vibrant ex pat community there.

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OP again - re Costa Rica, are there any particular areas you'd recommend?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:With global warning the Hamptons is a great choice. The vast vast majority of Hampton homes are not in a flood zone and are like 2-5 miles from ocean.

Quite unlike NJ shore. The beaches like Flying Point Beach in Southampton is resident only parking and it is just the beach, lifeguard, bathroom, food truck sometimes. All the night life, restaurants, clubs etc are in town.

Easy to get from. I usually drive off peak, but sometimes Acela to Cannonball train or Jitney out of Penn.

My rich friend used to fly out of BWI to McCarther airport on Long Island. Very very short flight. Avoids all the traffic.

A house 2-5 miles from the ocean is not a beach house.

You don’t understand it. No one wants to live by beach in Hamptons it sucks. I rented out there 13 summers. One summer we were by the beach. It was wicked cold at night, no stores, just a handful happy hour places, zero night life. I had to drive 15-30 minutes each way for cup of coffee, dinner, go to good bar, go to movie or anything. Plus driving to get people at train. And no street parking in dune road.

Best part I lived in Southhampton by Main Street walking distance train to NYC. Great restaurants and shopping.

And down by beach, flood insurance, hurricanes, no basements.