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Anonymous wrote:Visiting a beach town like Rehoboth in the off season, particularly in the dead of winter, isn't the same as living there day in and day out. None of you have had that experience other than me. It's not fun.

Why do you say that? You don't know where any of us have lived.

Do you live in Rehoboth year round where it’s your only house.

Didn’t think so.

Anyone else on here live in Rehoboth year round where it’s your only house?

Don’t think so.

Don’t

PP - by winter I mean I lived there one year from June through the following August.

I lived in ocean city one winter. It was fine. A bunch of stuff closed but restaurants were open T-S and the grocery store was open.

I guess I need to make myself more clear. I am the only poster on this thread who has actually had the experience of LIVING through the winter in a very Rehobeth-like beach town, and it is absolutely desolate AF. It is different from going for a weekend, even if it’s every weekend, in the winter while also having a house elsewhere. When it’s your only house, it gets old very quick.

Recent example: my brother and his wife (in their late 50s) moved back to our hometown a couple of years ago from the big city (not DC) thinking it would be a refreshing change and desiring to spend more time around my mother since she is getting older. They lasted two winters before going bonkers and moving back to the city. Thank God they were smart enough to rent and not buy. They quickly discovered there was literally nothing to do in the winter. Every house on the block but theirs empty, for example. Sure, a couple of places open year round, but are you going to go to the same two or three places every friggin’ Friday night and hob knob with the same five hicks and old fogies? Strolling on the beach? Nope. Too cold and windy. Looking at the beach from the warmth of your living room? Sure, if you can afford $3 million or more. Otherwise you’re looking at nothing but empty streets.

It’s the definition of a desolate existence. You all are romanticizing it way too much.

Anonymous wrote:Visiting a beach town like Rehoboth in the off season, particularly in the dead of winter, isn't the same as living there day in and day out. None of you have had that experience other than me. It's not fun.

Why do you say that? You don't know where any of us have lived.

Nantucket and Montana. Completely different but so great at the right time.

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Anonymous wrote:Our vacation home is also our investment strategy. We bought several years ago in Rehoboth, with the view that we'll eventually retire there. In the meantime, we're enjoying the house and building equity.

How much time have you actually spent in Rehoboth in the off season, particularly the dead of winter? Genuinely curious. I grew up in and still have family is a very similar beach town, and I'm not sure you understand just how desolate the winter season can be. There is virtually nothing to do. Not to mention that the year-round residents are mostly older, white Trumpsters.

I would never in a million years want to retire in a Rehoboth-type beach town.

We go there once a month during the off season for long weekends, with more days around Thanksgiving and Christmas. We have families there too. The restaurants are open, we hike and bike, and catch up with family.

Fall and spring are the best. No crowds. We especially enjoy spending fall weekends there.

Nothing is open in the dead of winter, and it's a lonely and desolate place. You haven't experienced that yet. Good luck.

DP. I’ve been going every weekend for a decade. You’re wrong. Some things close but it is far from desolate with nothing to do. Obviously you are not a fan of that time of the year but it’s not what you are portraying it to be.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m shocked how many of you are willing to take care of a second or third home. It’s all I can do to take care of the one I live in. I could afford a vacation home, but the S&P 500 doesn’t need cleaning and maintenance.

+1. Plus I love not having to clean or cook on vacation. I’m staying at a nice hotel where someone is refreshing my sheets and towels. Owning the place I’m vacationing in would take the fun out of a vacation for me.

Having a beach house is a lifestyle not a constant vacation. People do have them and then vacation in hotels where they don’t clean and cook. And there are some people who rent AirBNBs and houses specifically so they can cook while on vacation. Different strokes . . .

Anonymous wrote:Visiting a beach town like Rehoboth in the off season, particularly in the dead of winter, isn't the same as living there day in and day out. None of you have had that experience other than me. It's not fun.

What a bizarre assertion to make on an anonymous forum.

I love beach towns in their sleepy off season. I have had that experience, day in and day out. So has my husband and he shares your opinion, so unfortunately for me we won't be retiring to a town like that.

Anonymous wrote:Visiting a beach town like Rehoboth in the off season, particularly in the dead of winter, isn't the same as living there day in and day out. None of you have had that experience other than me. It's not fun.

Uh, my family lives there now, and… would have no idea what you’re referring to?

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Anonymous wrote:Our vacation home is also our investment strategy. We bought several years ago in Rehoboth, with the view that we'll eventually retire there. In the meantime, we're enjoying the house and building equity.

How much time have you actually spent in Rehoboth in the off season, particularly the dead of winter? Genuinely curious. I grew up in and still have family is a very similar beach town, and I'm not sure you understand just how desolate the winter season can be. There is virtually nothing to do. Not to mention that the year-round residents are mostly older, white Trumpsters.

I would never in a million years want to retire in a Rehoboth-type beach town.

We go there once a month during the off season for long weekends, with more days around Thanksgiving and Christmas. We have families there too. The restaurants are open, we hike and bike, and catch up with family.

Fall and spring are the best. No crowds. We especially enjoy spending fall weekends there.

Nothing is open in the dead of winter, and it's a lonely and desolate place. You haven't experienced that yet. Good luck.

Not PP, but have a place in Rehoboth and have been visiting my entire life. Very curious whether your view is based on recent experience?

When I was a kid, the only places open downtown in winter were Nicola’s and Gershman’s, and it was indeed desolate. But it has not been like that for years. And we’ve been spending time here in the off season regularly, because I love it. Though admittedly, there’s no snow removal, so if that happens, it’s a problem.

I hear you but, even if I had a whole team of people there, I still don’t really get the appeal of going to the same house over and over. If you have the money to fully staff a vacation home you could do so many more interesting things with your time.


And again, those aren’t mutually exclusive. The same people who hire house managers and cleaners for their vacation home are also doing ski trips, Europe, Caribbean etc.

This. We own a beach house in DE and are there most summer weekends, about once a month in the off-season. We love it and it definitely feels like a vacation, with no real maintenance that we deal with (we call someone if we need to) and time on the beach and at our pool. We also have house cleaners at both houses. We feel like we are really away from our normal, everyday life there, and it’s a huge draw for our young adult kids (which means lots of family time). I think we like our DE home better than our primary home, tbh. We also have been to Europe both in Siri g and summer this year, and had a couple of long weekend trips to other places.

I think the people who say they wouldn’t want a vacation home can’t really afford it, because all of the issues they raise are pretty non-existent.

Visiting a beach town like Rehoboth in the off season, particularly in the dead of winter, isn't the same as living there day in and day out. None of you have had that experience other than me. It's not fun.

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Anonymous wrote:Our vacation home is also our investment strategy. We bought several years ago in Rehoboth, with the view that we'll eventually retire there. In the meantime, we're enjoying the house and building equity.

How much time have you actually spent in Rehoboth in the off season, particularly the dead of winter? Genuinely curious. I grew up in and still have family is a very similar beach town, and I'm not sure you understand just how desolate the winter season can be. There is virtually nothing to do. Not to mention that the year-round residents are mostly older, white Trumpsters.

I would never in a million years want to retire in a Rehoboth-type beach town.

We go there once a month during the off season for long weekends, with more days around Thanksgiving and Christmas. We have families there too. The restaurants are open, we hike and bike, and catch up with family.

Fall and spring are the best. No crowds. We especially enjoy spending fall weekends there.

Nothing is open in the dead of winter, and it's a lonely and desolate place. You haven't experienced that yet. Good luck.

Winter beaches are wonderful. You might not agree with me but plenty of people love them

I love the quiet of an off season beach town. As long as there’s a grocery store I’m good.