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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why does it have to be a beach?

I grew up in a beach town and love the beach but when it came time to buy a second home decided to look west of the DMV and not east.

Why?

First, I'd only want a beach house that's actually ocean front.  If I can't look out my front window and actually see the ocean, it just wouldn't do it for me.  And ocean front in DE and MD cost millions and millions and just isn't worth that much to me.

Second, for several months around here the beach is too cold even to take a pleasant walk on, then again actually sit on.  And the beach towns themselves are dead, with the majority of the shops and restaurants largely if not entirely closed down and the majority of the year round residents being either old AF or MAGA or both.

We ended up buying a 5000 SF house with a pool on seven acres less than two hours west of downtown DC (even on a bad traffic day) for well under $1 million.  On top of that, we can walk in about 15 minute into a quaint but perfectly big enough downtown where good and varied bars and restaurants are open year round and where you'll see people of every age and not just the blue heads.  And it's not MAGA.  It went 80 percent for Harris in 2024.

Had you asked me back in the day if I could ever be happier with a second home to the west of the DMV than to the east I'd say no way.  But now I know I made the right decision.[/quote]

7 paragraphs but can’t name the place. She is looking for a place[/quote]

Yea, sorry,[b] I'm not gonna name the place[/b] because DCUM is too nasty and I'd don't want others here!  I'm just suggesting maybe broaden the horizons a little.  I do appreciate the allure of the beach, I really do -- as I said, I actually grew up near one (closer to the beach than the lady with dogs in a condo near Rehoboth who hates me lol) -- but when the time came to buy I looked deeper for all the reasons I suggested.

One other thing I left out:  there really aren't super convenient beaches near the city and the more desirable DMV suburbs.  Sure, in the off-season you can schlepp from downtown to Rehoboth fairly quickly -- right now, for example, a Monday morning in March, my GPS shows a clean drive of 2 hours and 40 minutes -- but typically you're talking 3 hours at least.  (Cue all the posters who magically say they get there in two.)  That was another factor in my decision.  I didn't want to own a second home any further away than two hours, tops.

Again, I love the beach.  Many of our actual vacations actually involve flying to one.  But when it came to buying our second home, where we typically spend as much time or more as our first, the options around the DMV just didn't appeal to me.

Were money absolutely no object?  Sure, those multi-million dollar beach front places in DE, MD and maybe NJ should would be appealing.  Not gonna lie about that.  But they still wouldn't be any closer, and wow for all that money the world is your oyster.

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CHatGPT suggest Sheperdstown WV is the most likely place.[/quote]

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