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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Does anyone own a beach house in Ocean View, DE--near Bethany Beach?  We are considering buying a beach house there--prices are lower than at Bethany but it's just 3-4 miles from the beach.  I'm also wondering about the parking situation at the beach--this house is in a community but there's no beach shuttle.  Thanks![/quote]

We do.  Which community are you looking at?  Traffic is bad at times during the summer.  Parking can be tough depending on where you go.  We don't tend to go to Bethany Beach - we buy a state park pass for $70 per year and go to those beaches.  Parking is rarely an issue, except at the one between Bethany and Fenwick and Cape Henlopen.  But you have a choice of a ton of beaches.  Our personal favorite is the unguarded beach just across the Inlet Bridge.  [/quote]

Are there any parking permits for homeowners?  There don't seem to be a lot of spots in town for Bethany Beach.  That is a good idea about the other beaches.  What do you tend to do when you're not at the beach?  When we vacation there at hotels, we usually do beach from 8-noon, then back to hotel for lunch and nap, then back to beach from 4-7 pm, then dinner out.  I'm just wondering about how we would structure our days there if we buy a place.  Kids are 2 years old and infant.[/quote]

No parking permits for homeowners except right around the house/property you own.  As far as what we do, we have a community with a pool, golf, volleyball, tennis, basketball.  We go to the beach a lot - like 40x a year.  So we don't actually spend time on the beach everytime we go - maybe just like one day each weekend.  We like to go fishing, which you can do on the unguarded beaches.  We kayak (we're right on the water) and ride bikes a lot.  Because we live there, we have a lot of friends that we socialize with - also I have a ton of friends from here who have beach houses as well, so we get together there.  I keep projects at the beach house, like scrapbooking stuff.  We have lots of game and movie nights.  We do cookouts and have s'mores just about every weekend - I'm not a fan, but apparently the rest of the world is.  There are bunches of festivals, mostly during the off seasons, that we go to.  If the weather is bad, we binge watch TV and movies.  We like to walk on the beach during the off seasons and two of my kids will swim in the ocean all year round - we keep blankets in the car as soon as it starts getting cold out so they don't freeze.  I've transitioned different life things to the beach - like getting my hair done.  We also save up all of our Walmart type shopping because there is no tax.  We are never at a loss of things to do and the kids really love it because we don't have any stress there.  Everything is about family game nights and having fun.

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OP here.  This sounds amazing PP!  We are considering 2 communities, one just has a pool and a small playground (but very low HOA fees), and the other has all the amenities you list but has steep HOA fees.  I'm not sure which would be better given we won't be there all the time.
How do you manage to go 40 times per year?  That is a lot of driving!  
How did you make all these friends at the beach?  I find it hard enough to make friends here (I have two under 2).  But if we do end up buying a beach house, I really want to build a community there.[/quote]

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