Trading up from rehoboth beach summer house

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Anonymous wrote: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.

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’).

No one said the HS kids don't want to go to the beach anymore. Just that they typically don't want to spend the entire summer at sleepaway camp anymore or never want to make a trip back home for something.

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Your post makes no sense. What are you looking for? You just want to randomly spend more money?

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If it were me, OBX above where the pavement ends.

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Anonymous wrote:Your post makes no sense. What are you looking for? You just want to randomly spend more money?

The Delaware beaches are not pretty. Their virtue is proximity.

If you can go away for the whole summer, the dynamics absolutely change. Why not go somewhere truly lovely or with a special kind of summer experience. While CC is unquestionably overbuilt and crowded these days, it still has many lovely pockets and charming feel and variety between ocean, bay and ponds, which is why people still flock there for summers over Delaware.

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Find out where the next real house wives is auditioning and put your 4m as 10% down on a 40m mansion. Take out an arm and go from there.

You will be fine and live the life you wish you had for at least 6-9 months.

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Anonymous wrote:Your post makes no sense. What are you looking for? You just want to randomly spend more money?

The Delaware beaches are not pretty. Their virtue is proximity.

If you can go away for the whole summer, the dynamics absolutely change. Why not go somewhere truly lovely or with a special kind of summer experience. While CC is unquestionably overbuilt and crowded these days, it still has many lovely pockets and charming feel and variety between ocean, bay and ponds, which is why people still flock there for summers over Delaware.

What is CC?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Your post makes no sense. What are you looking for? You just want to randomly spend more money?

The Delaware beaches are not pretty. Their virtue is proximity.

If you can go away for the whole summer, the dynamics absolutely change. Why not go somewhere truly lovely or with a special kind of summer experience. While CC is unquestionably overbuilt and crowded these days, it still has many lovely pockets and charming feel and variety between ocean, bay and ponds, which is why people still flock there for summers over Delaware.

What is CC?

I’m guessing cape cod. And it really is much prettier there than the Delaware beaches.

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Tahoe, no question.

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Ridiculous post

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I keep hearing Kent Island is lovely!

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I don’t get this. Why not rent a wonderful villa and spend each summer somewhere else? There are so many wonderful places around the world. Go explore, OP.

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My takeaway from this post is that rich people who buy beach houses on the eastern shore apparently don't bother traveling to more interesting places.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t get this. Why not rent a wonderful villa and spend each summer somewhere else? There are so many wonderful places around the world. Go explore, OP.

+1 This is what I would do. Keep the Rehoboth house and rent a waterfront house for the summer somewhere else.

We rented through Knowles in Maine for 3 months in the summer of 2021
https://www.knowlesco.com/vacation-rentals/281/alone_category/52-Vacation

We did a shorter rental in Orleans on Cape Cod a few years ago. That was really nice, the house was on a pond and we could walk/bike to the most amazing beach.

We've also rented in La Jolla during the summer. You can get close to the beach, but it's hard to find waterfront.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

There is pretty fantastic kayaking in Rehoboth/Sussex County, between the canal and inlets, the marshes, Bay and ocean.