OBX location most similar to Bethany or Stone Harbor

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Anonymous wrote:I was just looking at listings in the outer banks last night and it looks like there is not much available at this point

Yes, a month ago there were a bunch of options but not much anymore.

There is a large demand for beach areas this year.

We started looking for a place in the OBX like two weeks ago. Apparently, everyone else did, too: We would send around a link to a house that would work for our group and then it would be gone by the time we all finished talking about it. Finally found a place, but it's soundside (pro tip: if you find a house on AirBNB look for it on a realty site, too. our house was nearly $1,000 cheaper by not using AirBNB and their absurd fees).

We have school-parent friends who own an OBX rental and they've rode out the pandemic down there. They thought they would spend the entire summer there but their house suddenly got rented out for the season and now they're back in DC.

Private pools are a massive draw this summer and so many OBX houses have them.

I booked our house three weeks ago. I would bookmark places to show DH and they would be rented a few hours later. We have always booked our August vacations in May and always found lots of houses to choose from. Nope, not this year. I found ONE house that met our requirements (large pool, hot tub, pool table, no pets in Whalehead Beach or Pine Island) and I booked it without even running it by him.

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Anonymous wrote:I was just looking at listings in the outer banks last night and it looks like there is not much available at this point

Yes, a month ago there were a bunch of options but not much anymore.

There is a large demand for beach areas this year.

We started looking for a place in the OBX like two weeks ago. Apparently, everyone else did, too: We would send around a link to a house that would work for our group and then it would be gone by the time we all finished talking about it. Finally found a place, but it's soundside (pro tip: if you find a house on AirBNB look for it on a realty site, too. our house was nearly $1,000 cheaper by not using AirBNB and their absurd fees).

We have school-parent friends who own an OBX rental and they've rode out the pandemic down there. They thought they would spend the entire summer there but their house suddenly got rented out for the season and now they're back in DC.

Private pools are a massive draw this summer and so many OBX houses have them.

I booked our house three weeks ago. I would bookmark places to show DH and they would be rented a few hours later. We have always booked our August vacations in May and always found lots of houses to choose from. Nope, not this year. I found ONE house that met our requirements (large pool, hot tub, pool table, no pets in Whalehead Beach or Pine Island) and I booked it without even running it by him.

these are exactly what we are looking for. I really dislike the super small pools, i want to be able to swim for exercise a little. Can you link to the place you booked?

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Rohobeth and Bethany are way too crowded at the best of times. You'll probably get Corona there this summer.

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Anonymous wrote:I have only been to Bethany once and it might have been an unusually crowded week but I found the beaches shockingly, absurdly crowded. We have always gone to NC beaches and I just don't find crowds relaxing at all.

They are always like this in the summer.

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Anonymous wrote:Duck is the closest but it does not compare to Stone Harbor or Avalon. There aren’t any good little pizza or sub shops in Duck like you get up north. Cravings is good but they get slammed every day so the wait is forever. There is one main road in Duck so the traffic is awful. It’s not grid streets like the Jersey shore. There’s no boardwalk to drive to and the charm is just not there IMO. It’s a lot of preppy Southerners wearing monogrammed clothes and Lilly Pulitzer stuff. I grew up in the northeast and I miss going to the Jersey shore so much. Better towns and people.

I am LOLing so hard at how you are trying to sound pretentious and failing. Jersey shore is TRASH. And who goes to the beach to eat pizza? Get some fresh seafood you ignoramus. Go to the Blue Point, Paper Canoe, or Kimball's Kitchen. Oh that's right, you probably can't afford nice meals out which is why you're looking for pizza on vacation

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Anonymous wrote:Who goes to the beach for pizza and subs? I go for shrimp, crab cakes and scallops.

I was thinking the same thing! Shellfish, shellfish and more shellfish!

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Who gives a crap if pizza is "NY" or not.

There is a certain way to cook a good pizza. You don't have to be Italian or from NY to know or learn it.

A good pizza place DOES have a REALLY FREAKING HOT expensive (over $10k) oven. And freshly made dough from scratch.

That's about it, toppings are just tasty stuff that's fresh.

New Yorkers give a crap about pizza, because the love to tell everybody how everything is better "back home." My question is if it's so hetter back home, why are you here?

Also, you can find tons of great pizza outside of New York. It's not that hard to make.

I guess if you didn’t grow up with good food then it’s hard to understand why people appreciate and miss good food.

That said, I still go to OBX for reasons other than food. If NY/NJ had better beach rental options, I’d go there in a heartbeat.

No I didn't grow up in NY/NJ, so I was deprived of good food growing up. Thankfully there is a large influx of New Yorkers in and around DC who can share their wisdom on what's good. FYI, I've had plenty of NY pizza. Some of it's been really good and some pretty pedestrian. Also, it's not hard to find good pizza anywhere in the U.S.

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Anonymous wrote:Duck is the closest but it does not compare to Stone Harbor or Avalon. There aren’t any good little pizza or sub shops in Duck like you get up north. Cravings is good but they get slammed every day so the wait is forever. There is one main road in Duck so the traffic is awful. It’s not grid streets like the Jersey shore. There’s no boardwalk to drive to and the charm is just not there IMO. It’s a lot of preppy Southerners wearing monogrammed clothes and Lilly Pulitzer stuff. I grew up in the northeast and I miss going to the Jersey shore so much. Better towns and people.

I am LOLing so hard at how you are trying to sound pretentious and failing. Jersey shore is TRASH. And who goes to the beach to eat pizza? Get some fresh seafood you ignoramus. Go to the Blue Point, Paper Canoe, or Kimball's Kitchen. Oh that's right, you probably can't afford nice meals out which is why you're looking for pizza on vacation

Your level of anger is odd. The OP asked a question, and as someone who has been to all of these places a bunch of times I answered it. The Jersey shore is not a monolith. There are the trashy places such as those featured on the MTV show, and there are much nicer areas like Stone Harbor, Avalon, Sea Isle City, Ocean City. All of them are way more expensive than anything in the OBX. They also have actual lifeguards, which make them safer. It is possible to eat at a mix of fast casual and nicer seafood restaurants when spending a week at the beach. Pizza and subs are an easy lunch. A lot of the places you can grab those at are right off the beach so you can go grab a quick bite and come back. You might be shocked to find out that the people I know who own homes at the Jersey shore, who probably have a lot more money than you, eat pizza and subs there all the time. There's no such thing as a good, quick lunch right off the beach in the OBX. Getting takeout is a hassle. Some places will straight up tell you they're too busy and you're out of luck (e.g. Food Dudes in Nags Head). Blue Point in Duck has good food, but not good enough to justify their snotty attitude.

It's really not that serious! Staying home must be getting to you. Go for a run or something.

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Who gives a crap if pizza is "NY" or not.

There is a certain way to cook a good pizza. You don't have to be Italian or from NY to know or learn it.

A good pizza place DOES have a REALLY FREAKING HOT expensive (over $10k) oven. And freshly made dough from scratch.

That's about it, toppings are just tasty stuff that's fresh.

New Yorkers give a crap about pizza, because the love to tell everybody how everything is better "back home." My question is if it's so hetter back home, why are you here?

Also, you can find tons of great pizza outside of New York. It's not that hard to make.

I guess if you didn’t grow up with good food then it’s hard to understand why people appreciate and miss good food.

That said, I still go to OBX for reasons other than food. If NY/NJ had better beach rental options, I’d go there in a heartbeat.

No I didn't grow up in NY/NJ, so I was deprived of good food growing up. Thankfully there is a large influx of New Yorkers in and around DC who can share their wisdom on what's good. FYI, I've had plenty of NY pizza. Some of it's been really good and some pretty pedestrian. Also, it's not hard to find good pizza anywhere in the U.S.

It costs twice as much, or more, to rent a much smaller beach house in the Northeast. No one is going to eat pizza seven nights a week - not in NY/NJ, not in OBX, not anywhere. If you don't know good food, that's fine, but have some understanding about why some people don't want spaghettio-level food during their vacation week, nor do they want to cook every night. It is not that difficult to understand, but you want claim the problem is them, as usual - which is a very, very southern thing to do. Come to think of it, I don't care much for "stars and bars" on my vacation, either.

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Anonymous wrote:Duck is the closest but it does not compare to Stone Harbor or Avalon. There aren’t any good little pizza or sub shops in Duck like you get up north. Cravings is good but they get slammed every day so the wait is forever. There is one main road in Duck so the traffic is awful. It’s not grid streets like the Jersey shore. There’s no boardwalk to drive to and the charm is just not there IMO. It’s a lot of preppy Southerners wearing monogrammed clothes and Lilly Pulitzer stuff. I grew up in the northeast and I miss going to the Jersey shore so much. Better towns and people.

I am LOLing so hard at how you are trying to sound pretentious and failing. Jersey shore is TRASH. And who goes to the beach to eat pizza? Get some fresh seafood you ignoramus. Go to the Blue Point, Paper Canoe, or Kimball's Kitchen. Oh that's right, you probably can't afford nice meals out which is why you're looking for pizza on vacation

Pizza and hoagie snobs....shessh. It's not hard to find good pizza outside of NY. Also, I didn't know making a sub/hoagie was such an art- good deli meat, good bread, and some condiments...not that hard.

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Anonymous wrote:Duck is the closest but it does not compare to Stone Harbor or Avalon. There aren’t any good little pizza or sub shops in Duck like you get up north. Cravings is good but they get slammed every day so the wait is forever. There is one main road in Duck so the traffic is awful. It’s not grid streets like the Jersey shore. There’s no boardwalk to drive to and the charm is just not there IMO. It’s a lot of preppy Southerners wearing monogrammed clothes and Lilly Pulitzer stuff. I grew up in the northeast and I miss going to the Jersey shore so much. Better towns and people.

I am LOLing so hard at how you are trying to sound pretentious and failing. Jersey shore is TRASH. And who goes to the beach to eat pizza? Get some fresh seafood you ignoramus. Go to the Blue Point, Paper Canoe, or Kimball's Kitchen. Oh that's right, you probably can't afford nice meals out which is why you're looking for pizza on vacation

Your level of anger is odd. The OP asked a question, and as someone who has been to all of these places a bunch of times I answered it. The Jersey shore is not a monolith. There are the trashy places such as those featured on the MTV show, and there are much nicer areas like Stone Harbor, Avalon, Sea Isle City, Ocean City. All of them are way more expensive than anything in the OBX. They also have actual lifeguards, which make them safer. It is possible to eat at a mix of fast casual and nicer seafood restaurants when spending a week at the beach. Pizza and subs are an easy lunch. A lot of the places you can grab those at are right off the beach so you can go grab a quick bite and come back. You might be shocked to find out that the people I know who own homes at the Jersey shore, who probably have a lot more money than you, eat pizza and subs there all the time. There's no such thing as a good, quick lunch right off the beach in the OBX. Getting takeout is a hassle. Some places will straight up tell you they're too busy and you're out of luck (e.g. Food Dudes in Nags Head). Blue Point in Duck has good food, but not good enough to justify their snotty attitude.

It's really not that serious! Staying home must be getting to you. Go for a run or something.

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Nope. They are always like this - you new here? It's what happens when one is constantly constipated and without sex - look around. Welcome to DC.

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Anonymous wrote:Duck is the closest but it does not compare to Stone Harbor or Avalon. There aren’t any good little pizza or sub shops in Duck like you get up north. Cravings is good but they get slammed every day so the wait is forever. There is one main road in Duck so the traffic is awful. It’s not grid streets like the Jersey shore. There’s no boardwalk to drive to and the charm is just not there IMO. It’s a lot of preppy Southerners wearing monogrammed clothes and Lilly Pulitzer stuff. I grew up in the northeast and I miss going to the Jersey shore so much. Better towns and people.

I am LOLing so hard at how you are trying to sound pretentious and failing. Jersey shore is TRASH. And who goes to the beach to eat pizza? Get some fresh seafood you ignoramus. Go to the Blue Point, Paper Canoe, or Kimball's Kitchen. Oh that's right, you probably can't afford nice meals out which is why you're looking for pizza on vacation

Pizza and hoagie snobs....shessh. It's not hard to find good pizza outside of NY. Also, I didn't know making a sub/hoagie was such an art- good deli meat, good bread, and some condiments...not that hard.

It's lunch people, not dinner.

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Anonymous wrote:Who goes to the beach for pizza and subs? I go for shrimp, crab cakes and scallops.

I was thinking the same thing! Shellfish, shellfish and more shellfish!

Is that what OBX is known for? I am genuinely curious - where is the good seafood, that is fresh, from that area, and you don't have to douse it with Old Bay or New Bay or whatever the heck that crap is. What are the options that aren't a two hour wait out the door? Clearly there needs to be more options in OBX, because the options with the two hour wait out the door are not that great. That's all. If you haven't had good, fresh, from that area seafood, that's fine - but have some understanding of people who go to the beach for (wait for it) fresh, from that area, seafood - preferably not doused in crap.

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Anonymous wrote:Duck is the closest but it does not compare to Stone Harbor or Avalon. There aren’t any good little pizza or sub shops in Duck like you get up north. Cravings is good but they get slammed every day so the wait is forever. There is one main road in Duck so the traffic is awful. It’s not grid streets like the Jersey shore. There’s no boardwalk to drive to and the charm is just not there IMO. It’s a lot of preppy Southerners wearing monogrammed clothes and Lilly Pulitzer stuff. I grew up in the northeast and I miss going to the Jersey shore so much. Better towns and people.

I am LOLing so hard at how you are trying to sound pretentious and failing. Jersey shore is TRASH. And who goes to the beach to eat pizza? Get some fresh seafood you ignoramus. Go to the Blue Point, Paper Canoe, or Kimball's Kitchen. Oh that's right, you probably can't afford nice meals out which is why you're looking for pizza on vacation

Wow - ignorance at it's best. How is that working for you?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Who gives a crap if pizza is "NY" or not.

There is a certain way to cook a good pizza. You don't have to be Italian or from NY to know or learn it.

A good pizza place DOES have a REALLY FREAKING HOT expensive (over $10k) oven. And freshly made dough from scratch.

That's about it, toppings are just tasty stuff that's fresh.

New Yorkers give a crap about pizza, because the love to tell everybody how everything is better "back home." My question is if it's so hetter back home, why are you here?

Also, you can find tons of great pizza outside of New York. It's not that hard to make.

I guess if you didn’t grow up with good food then it’s hard to understand why people appreciate and miss good food.

That said, I still go to OBX for reasons other than food. If NY/NJ had better beach rental options, I’d go there in a heartbeat.

No I didn't grow up in NY/NJ, so I was deprived of good food growing up. Thankfully there is a large influx of New Yorkers in and around DC who can share their wisdom on what's good. FYI, I've had plenty of NY pizza. Some of it's been really good and some pretty pedestrian. Also, it's not hard to find good pizza anywhere in the U.S.

It costs twice as much, or more, to rent a much smaller beach house in the Northeast. No one is going to eat pizza seven nights a week - not in NY/NJ, not in OBX, not anywhere. If you don't know good food, that's fine, but have some understanding about why some people don't want spaghettio-level food during their vacation week, nor do they want to cook every night. It is not that difficult to understand, but you want claim the problem is them, as usual - which is a very, very southern thing to do. Come to think of it, I don't care much for "stars and bars" on my vacation, either.

For hating the OBX so much, you really post on a lot of OBX threads. I remember your multiple Spaghettios posts.