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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’ve posted a few times offering my honest views and almost every time I’ve been written off as someone who is just “jealous” that I don’t own a beach house in Delaware that’s a five minute drive from the sand.  I know I shouldn’t bother responding and that I’m wasting my breath, but what the hell — I’m bored today.

I actually grew up two blocks from the beach in one of the nicest towns in NJ.  Candidly, it’s a lot nicer than Rehoboth.  I still have lots of family living in and near my home town.  Three of my siblings own modest homes there that nonetheless are worth ridiculous amounts of money.  They live there year round.  Always have.  We’re all close.  I visit.  I understand the beach scene very, very well.

I have absolutely no desire to live there myself, though.  The majority of year round residents of small towns on or near the beach — or the shore, as we call it in NJ — are old AF, conservative if not downright MAGA, not well educated, and white.  I cannot relate to any of it.

The Delaware beaches are no different and no better.

:mrgreen: If you can afford to buy a home in any of those towns, which I can, there are far better and more interesting places to buy elsewhere.  If you can afford to rent a (nice) house for a week or two in any of those towns, you can afford a trip to Europe or the Caribbean instead.

The absolute last thing I would want to do is own a beach house in Delaware that I could only use a week or two in the summer, where I couldn’t see the ocean from my front door, where I would have to come in the off season where more businesses are closed than opened, where the majority of the other people hanging around were old fogies and conservative hicks, and when there’s basically nothing to do.

Yes, I have money.  Could I afford a $5 million dollar beachfront home in Rehoboth?  Nope.  [b]Could I afford a place that costs a couple million? [/b] Absolutely.  I am, however, supremely uninterested — and not even remotely jealous.  [/quote]

That is good you are not jealous as a couple of million will not even get you a nice house in the city of Rehoboth now.  :lol: Try 3m+. Why? Because it is desirable and inventory is low. You won’t get beachfront for 5m either. May want to stick with jersey. lol.

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You don’t know much about Jersey [/quote]

PP here.  I just looked at Redfin and there’s currently only one listing in all of Rehoboth for over $5 million and plenty for under $2 million.   Plenty. [/quote]

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