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[quote=Anonymous]18:59 here. My thing with Virginia Beach is I don't like highrises towering over me at the beach. And on my first visit we were bringing our boat up the ICW and stopped in Portsmouth. Portsmouth has some great restaurants and marinas but it's kind of the working class backside of Norfolk. Because there are so many sailors there are a lot of strip clubs in Portsmouth, Norfolk and Virginia Beach. So when we were driving over to check it out I got this seedy feeling from the surrounding neighborhoods. On the plus side the walkable waterfront and Nautica museum in nearby Norfolk is really great. And Sandbridge is very quiet and nice but 20 minutes from anything.
OC, Rehoboth, Bethany, they don't really have neighborhoods that feel sketchy the way VB has. Chincoteague isn't sketchy, it's more in an evolution from working fisherman poor to quaint NASA/beach town. I talked to some locals there and along with the pretty Victorians and the ponies, they have employment problems for the young people. It's actually a thing there to get pregnant right after high school and not marry the boyfriend so you can get welfare benefits because there are so few good jobs. There's also folks that live in the campgrounds because they can't afford anything else. But those folks' kids are surfing like champions and crabbing every day, so it's not exactly purgatory.[/quote]

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