Trading up from rehoboth beach summer house

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Anonymous wrote:Do you still have kids? Any medical issues? Any form of social life? I'm a SAHM who spends the summer with our kids at our beach house in downtown Rehoboth. We would still travel back to DC for birthday parties or other kid events, doctor appointments, etc.

It's easy to go back for a school orientation or class play date one week before school starts then still go back to the beach. It's harder to do that if you're a flight away. Plus doctor appointments, parties, etc. The logistics are really hard to leave for the entire summer and never go back. Everyone I know goes back home at least a few times over the Summer.

PP here. I forgot to mention that kids start doing 1-2 weeks of camps for their sports as they get older. So one of us has to go back for that. There's always some reason to go back home for a day or a week, even if you're spending the whole Summer at the beach. There's no way to get away form the fact that the distance between your primary home and your vacation home matters.

^this- this is the first summer in the past five years, I left the beach only 3 times from June to the middle of august- I feel like I know all of the bumps on 404. I would not leave Delaware because it is so easy and I have all of my beach friends and social life there.

We have a summer house on Martha's Vineyard and live in the DMV. In the summer there are regular direct flights to DCA. We routinely get from one house to the other in under three hours.

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If a different time zone isn’t a problem, I’d buy something along the Mediterranean in a cute and walkable village - Italy, France, maybe Greece? If time zone is a consideration, I’d get something in Buenos Aires or California along the beach.

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I grew up going to Martha’s Vineyard, and you can still get a great house there in the 3-4 million range. It won’t be ridiculous, but will be large enough for some space and hosting.

If you are super social and just want a baller mansion, maybe eastern shore, adirondacks, coastal maine, where your money will go far. I’d do that or some ski town out west.

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Op here.

I’m wide open on where. It can be a flight since we plan to be gone all summer. We don’t usually go back much if it all. There is really no need to do so. Kids do go to camp but it’s sleep away and they fly to it already.

I would prefer a place ideal to visit in the summer since the kids are off from school. We do like the pool/ beach lifestyle.

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If I had OP’s wealth, I’d keep the house in Rehoboth and stay there for half the summers. Then I’d take rest of the summers and use that extra $1/2 million for travel and find a nice house rental and stay for a month somewhere different like the south of France or northern Spain. And fly Business Class of course.

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Rent out the house and rent elsewhere - at least for the first summer. If you like it, you can sell in Rehoboth and buy in the new place. If you don’t like it, then summer in a different place the next summer.

My preference would be coastal Maine - on the water where I could kayak.

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A lot of communities along coastal New England plus the islands. You have options. Worth spending a few weeks exploring the area. This is what I'd ultimately buy: https://www.redfin.com/MA/Truro/6-6A-Bay-View-Path-02652/home/187801023

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Fishers Island, NY

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Anonymous wrote:Op here.

I’m wide open on where. It can be a flight since we plan to be gone all summer. We don’t usually go back much if it all. There is really no need to do so. Kids do go to camp but it’s sleep away and they fly to it already.

I would prefer a place ideal to visit in the summer since the kids are off from school. We do like the pool/ beach lifestyle.

Does it need to be in the US? What type of beaches/activities do you like?

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Anonymous wrote:A lot of communities along coastal New England plus the islands. You have options. Worth spending a few weeks exploring the area. This is what I'd ultimately buy: https://www.redfin.com/MA/Truro/6-6A-Bay-View-Path-02652/home/187801023

Love this. Can you add a pool here?

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Well I certainly wouldn't buy in Florida for a summer home. Hot and disgusting. Cape Cod? I don't know that any beach town has a particularly deep culinary scene. I certainly would not buy without spending a summer in that town first.

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Anonymous wrote:Op here.

I’m wide open on where. It can be a flight since we plan to be gone all summer. We don’t usually go back much if it all. There is really no need to do so. Kids do go to camp but it’s sleep away and they fly to it already.

I would prefer a place ideal to visit in the summer since the kids are off from school. We do like the pool/ beach lifestyle.

You haven't hit HS yet if your kids are still happy to spend the whole summer away at sleep away camps. That ends first year of HS. In HS, they'll likely narrow down to one sport and get very serious about it. They'll have Summer practice for 2-3 weeks. Then another kid will want to go to a friend's party. Then one will want to do something different with their friends. Then they'll all want to invite their friends to the beach for the weekend.

We've owned in Downtown Rehoboth for 10 years. Everything changes once the kids are in HS.

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Anonymous wrote:Op here.

I’m wide open on where. It can be a flight since we plan to be gone all summer. We don’t usually go back much if it all. There is really no need to do so. Kids do go to camp but it’s sleep away and they fly to it already.

I would prefer a place ideal to visit in the summer since the kids are off from school. We do like the pool/ beach lifestyle.

You haven't hit HS yet if your kids are still happy to spend the whole summer away at sleep away camps. That ends first year of HS. In HS, they'll likely narrow down to one sport and get very serious about it. They'll have Summer practice for 2-3 weeks. Then another kid will want to go to a friend's party. Then one will want to do something different with their friends. Then they'll all want to invite their friends to the beach for the weekend.

We've owned in Downtown Rehoboth for 10 years. Everything changes once the kids are in HS.

Not necessarily true - depends on the camp and its culture. My HSer begged me to go back to camp. I expect both will continue to go throughout HS.

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Regarding location, I can not imagine not knowing what you like, your heart not having a tug. Not yearning for someplace specific. Usually the burning desire comes first. Then the money question, acceptance it it's possible or not.

Though, I'm here reading so I must be getting something out of this thread with random suggestions.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Op here.

I’m wide open on where. It can be a flight since we plan to be gone all summer. We don’t usually go back much if it all. There is really no need to do so. Kids do go to camp but it’s sleep away and they fly to it already.

I would prefer a place ideal to visit in the summer since the kids are off from school. We do like the pool/ beach lifestyle.

You haven't hit HS yet if your kids are still happy to spend the whole summer away at sleep away camps. That ends first year of HS. In HS, they'll likely narrow down to one sport and get very serious about it. They'll have Summer practice for 2-3 weeks. Then another kid will want to go to a friend's party. Then one will want to do something different with their friends. Then they'll all want to invite their friends to the beach for the weekend.

We've owned in Downtown Rehoboth for 10 years. Everything changes once the kids are in HS.

Eh, we’ve owned there longer, and use definitely ebbs and flows, but the idea that kids stop wanting to go at a certain point has not been our experience (or our neighbors’).