Good beaches near Maryland to buy a vacation home?

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Anonymous wrote:Also might want to look on the bay side - like Long Neck DE.

Yikes, no. Lots of trailors.

Solomon's Island is nice and it's on the western shore.

If you have loads of money, there is Gibson Island near Annapolis.

I love Gibson Island - very private, a bit remote and New England-y imo.

Isn’t Gibson Island on the bay? To me there is a totally different vibe to the eastern shore (bay) towns vs a beach town like Bethany. Pros and cons to both.

(in new england, you can get best of both in the same town! but not in DC area, that I know of)

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Anonymous wrote:Bethany Beach. Fenwick.
Am writing in from Bethany this minute.
Very nice. Definitely far different experience from Ocean City.

99% of all properties in Bethany will flood in the next 30 years. firststreet.org. I'm sure you can look up any coastal area and find similar.

LOL! They have been saying that for decades and decades.

If some places will flood, who cares? I won’t give up the past 10 years or the next 20 years with all the great times and memories with my family just because of some “fear “of flooding.

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Anonymous wrote:Deep Creek Lake has beaches

Bumping this because there's nice beach, and you can ski in the winter. Year round fun!

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Anonymous wrote:Deep Creek Lake has beaches

Bumping this because there's nice beach, and you can ski in the winter. Year round fun!

Are you seriously putting deep creek on the same level as Bethany and the DE beaches. No, just no.

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Anonymous wrote:Bethany already has a flooding problem downtown. Also the beach is very narrow and easily gets washed away with storms.It’s very boring town, but that might be what you want.

Yes there is some small flooding up to about a black from the beach with very heavy rainfalls but that’s single digit days and usually not in the summer. Overwhelming majority of the houses on beach or within 3 blocks of beach not affected at all.

Beach by the bandstand can be narrow with high tide but it’s wide few blocks away and all along north and south bethany.

I would argue the flooding in OC by the bay close by the inlet is a bigger problem. It’s a lot more water and higher.

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Anonymous wrote:Bethany already has a flooding problem downtown. Also the beach is very narrow and easily gets washed away with storms.It’s very boring town, but that might be what you want.

Yes there is some small flooding up to about a black from the beach with very heavy rainfalls but that’s single digit days and usually not in the summer. Overwhelming majority of the houses on beach or within 3 blocks of beach not affected at all.

Beach by the bandstand can be narrow with high tide but it’s wide few blocks away and all along north and south bethany.

I would argue the flooding in OC by the bay close by the inlet is a bigger problem. It’s a lot more water and higher.

typo up to about a block

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OP, have you considered Duck, NC? It is 4.5 hr drive if you time it right, which if you owned a place (so aren’t subject to the Sat-Sat rental hours), you could do. I think the beaches are so much nicer and quieter there than DE. Also, town of Duck is small but cute. Before the haters come in, it is definitely a quieter scene than DE, no boardwalk, mini golf, less restaurants. But the beaches are quiet and nice, the area is great for biking, the sound is fun for paddle boarding, kayaking, etc., and there are a handful decent to good restaurants, plenty of options for ice cream, coffee, etc.

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Anonymous wrote:OP did you look at the north end of Ocean City? It’s a lot quieter than midtown or down by the boardwalk. There are some quiet neighborhoods on the bay that are still walking distance to the beach. We can’t hear the highway at all from our place. We drive north to DE to eat and shop a lot more often than we drive south. But occasionally we go down by the inlet where there are a couple of good restaurants.

I wouldn’t call Bethany quiet and not crowded, at least not on summer weekends. The downtown area is packed. But it is family friendly. There are a million teens everywhere because parents feel it is safe for them to walk around, which is nice for them.

Ocean city?! No way. Bethany over OC any day of the week. You can't even compare the two. OC is pretty trashy.

You must be thinking of lower O.C. near the boardwalk with all the motels, condos, amusements.

No sweetie, north ocean city bayside with the big homes on the water, where you can hear a pin drop at night, is quite nice. I imagine Bethany is incredibly boring. I can picture the Bethany diner, Sea Colony condo . . what do people do there for fun?

Yes someone who gets it! Maybe we are beach neighbors. They don't know what they are missing. Sea Colony is hell on earth.

Sea Colony is awesome if you have young kids in the mix - they offer a few hours of summer camp programming for kids each day. Sea Colony also has a private beach and chair/umbrella service, so its nowhere near as crowded as the main beaches in near boardwalks of Bethany, Dewey, Rehoboth, OC, etc.

I thought I would hate Sea Colony. But now that I have young kids, it's amazingly convenient and easy. Kid gets fussy? Just go up to the condo and put them down for a nap within 5 minutes.

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Anonymous wrote:Bethany already has a flooding problem downtown. Also the beach is very narrow and easily gets washed away with storms.It’s very boring town, but that might be what you want.

All of this, but the Catholics of MD love it because they have a tons of friends who have houses there. I wouldn't do it if you are not in this crowd.

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Anonymous wrote:Bethany already has a flooding problem downtown. Also the beach is very narrow and easily gets washed away with storms.It’s very boring town, but that might be what you want.

All of this, but the Catholics of MD love it because they have a tons of friends who have houses there. I wouldn't do it if you are not in this crowd.

Bethany Beach is full of giant SUVs with DC-area private school stickers. Obnoxious.

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Anonymous wrote:Bethany already has a flooding problem downtown. Also the beach is very narrow and easily gets washed away with storms.It’s very boring town, but that might be what you want.

All of this, but the Catholics of MD love it because they have a tons of friends who have houses there. I wouldn't do it if you are not in this crowd.

Bethany Beach is full of giant SUVs with DC-area private school stickers. Obnoxious.

Might nit be your crowd but it’s the beach that draws the wealthy in the DMV who can afford 60k a year private schools.

I don’t envy them but sure wish I could also for my kid!

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Anonymous wrote:OP, have you considered Duck, NC? It is 4.5 hr drive if you time it right, which if you owned a place (so aren’t subject to the Sat-Sat rental hours), you could do. I think the beaches are so much nicer and quieter there than DE. Also, town of Duck is small but cute. Before the haters come in, it is definitely a quieter scene than DE, no boardwalk, mini golf, less restaurants. But the beaches are quiet and nice, the area is great for biking, the sound is fun for paddle boarding, kayaking, etc., and there are a handful decent to good restaurants, plenty of options for ice cream, coffee, etc.

Don’t buy in NC, too many hurricanes! Delaware/Maryland beaches don’t get hurricanes

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Anonymous wrote:OP, have you considered Duck, NC? It is 4.5 hr drive if you time it right, which if you owned a place (so aren’t subject to the Sat-Sat rental hours), you could do. I think the beaches are so much nicer and quieter there than DE. Also, town of Duck is small but cute. Before the haters come in, it is definitely a quieter scene than DE, no boardwalk, mini golf, less restaurants. But the beaches are quiet and nice, the area is great for biking, the sound is fun for paddle boarding, kayaking, etc., and there are a handful decent to good restaurants, plenty of options for ice cream, coffee, etc.

If you’re going to drive that far you might as well just get a place in the Hamptons. Hamptons beaches are nicer than the Outer Banks and you can do day trips to NYC on the LIRR.

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Anonymous wrote:OP, have you considered Duck, NC? It is 4.5 hr drive if you time it right, which if you owned a place (so aren’t subject to the Sat-Sat rental hours), you could do. I think the beaches are so much nicer and quieter there than DE. Also, town of Duck is small but cute. Before the haters come in, it is definitely a quieter scene than DE, no boardwalk, mini golf, less restaurants. But the beaches are quiet and nice, the area is great for biking, the sound is fun for paddle boarding, kayaking, etc., and there are a handful decent to good restaurants, plenty of options for ice cream, coffee, etc.

If you’re going to drive that far you might as well just get a place in the Hamptons. Hamptons beaches are nicer than the Outer Banks and you can do day trips to NYC on the LIRR.

NYC-DC can easily be 4 hours alone in the summer on I-95. NYC-Hamptons can be another 3-4 hours with traffic via the LIE. And Hamptons homes are easily 2-4x the cost of Duck.

What a dumb idea.