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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our kids do travel sports and we own a place at the beach. We bought in 2020 right before the big run up in prices. Our kids were little back then, with no real activities because things were mostly shut down for them, so it was easy to get there a bunch of weekends in the fall. Now we are tied up most weekends once school starts but able to get there a good bit during the summer including a few weeks consecutively before school starts. Sometimes we can get there on random fall or spring weekends. The key is to have at least one  parent with a very flexible and/or remote job; even better if one parent is off in summer. We would not have bought if we both worked full time all summer. The other key is don’t have the kids do sports like lacrosse or baseball where there are tournaments on multiple summer weekends.

As much as we love the beach, I wouldn’t want to spend all summer out there anyway because it would take the kids away from fun things here. Going back and forth works for us, but we have very specific circumstances that allow it. I wish the drive was more like 90 min as opposed to 3 hours, so we could get there even with a Sat afternoon sport in the fall. But we are beach people and buying at a lake or river is not at all the same. [/quote]

I'm the flexible parent, and I agree that it would be more difficult to make the second home worth the effort if I weren't able to spend long stretches of time out there. In our case, it has also helped that there is a lot of overlap between our social circle in the city and the one at the beach . . . the kids are happy to be there because many of their friends are there too.
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