On Fri, 26 Feb 2021 15:31:36 -0500, Ed Pawlowski > wrote:

>On 2/26/2021 11:04 AM, Boron Elgar wrote:
>> On Fri, 26 Feb 2021 09:46:28 -0500, Ed Pawlowski > wrote:
>>
>>> On 2/26/2021 8:27 AM, Gary wrote:
>>>> *Bruce wrote:
>>>>> "cshenk" wrote:
>>>>>> Gary love you but it's clear you know only that tiny bit of Virginia
>>>>>> Beach. You are 'bitching' about a less than 3 mile square radius of it
>>>>>> and best I can tell, almost never leave it.
>>>>>
>>>>> Gary's an armchair* traveller. It's cheaper than real travel.
>>>>
>>>> Carol knows inland Virginia Beach.
>>>> I know coastal Virginia Beach.
>>>>
>>>> Even though we live maybe only 8 miles apart, it's
>>>> two very different worlds....seriously.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> The Jersey shore is the same. Town to town it varies along the coast.
>>> Tell me what shore town you visit and I can tell a lot about where you
>>> live and even education.
>>>
>>
>>
>> I like Margate.
>>
>Your a sophisticated person then.

I have always hoped so. Thanks.

> If you go to Stone Harbor don't hold
>hands on the beach. Wildwood is blue collar Philadelphia and a lot of
>Canadians. Cape May was an older crowd and nice Victorian homes.

I have never understood the allure of any of the WIldwoods. Completely
escapes me. Although I know it is more, all I can think of is those
tacky motels with rusted chises around a pool that has seen better
days. Cape May is very pretty, though and the birding can be great at
migration times.
>
>I go to Ocean City because my good friend has a beach front property
>there. They used to have two others but they sold two. I was nice to
>stay in a place that rents for $4000 a week for free. If they had a
>cancellation I would get a call and was given use for a week.
>
>She now has one property and no longer rents but I stay with her now
>when I go.

The best way to do the shore is if someone else owns the place and
invites you down.
>
>I also have relatives in Wildwood, Beach Haven, Tuckerton.

So much of the NJ shore is striking- at least those parts that are not
out and outright honky-tonk. Although, I have to admit, a nice corn
dog or slice and an ice cream cone on a noisy boardwalk can be a lot
of fun.
>
>I've not been to Atlantic City for years. The casinos changed the
>makeup of visitors there. Years ago there were a few classy hotels for
>the well-to-do and they could wear there furs walking the boardwalk at
>night.

AC has changed a lot even since the casinos started taking over the
shore parts. I am fond of slot machines to the equivalent of a nice
dinner and theater tickets in NYC, so used to go down and spend it
there instead, once in awhile. We were really more interested in
having a nice room with an ocean view (I liked the Borgata) and
visiting some of the older restaurants, though. We have had some
magnificent meals at those old places- some crummy ones, too.

I have always thought it awful that the casinos went into AC with
great promises that the govt money made would pour into helping AC. I
have never seen a nickel's worth of improvement more than a block or
two off the hotel strips. There is a stark divide between the casino
areas and the rest of the place. I cannot say I have done any sort of
research into why the city is still so poverty-ridden - a gazillion
reasons, I assume, but, boy, that beach front is beautiful. Recently,
however, the casinos are depressing - or at least they were getting
that way before that world ended in viral miasma. I ain't going near
that sort of place these days.

I confess, though, to liking California beachfront more these days. I
had an aunt whose lived in one of those hang-over-the cliff places in
Pacific Palisades and just decided that I prefer earthquakes to
hurricanes.