re: I don't get peoples fascination with the beach.

I enjoy nice weather and playing with my kids on the Gulf. I vacation where the SEC does every year. Go somewhere else if you don't like it.

Its a place they can relax, no worry about the rest of the world for a bit. We all have our spot.

The beach for vacation isn't my thing. I'd rather go somewhere and do stuff. Whether thats just going to hang out in a cool spot or skiing or golf trip or whatever.

But I'd live in a beach town. Going for a day on the weekend whenever you want would be sweet, but you can count me out of a gulf Shores trip to go share the bewch with a bunch of middle aged white dudes getting drunk under an sec school tent of which they didn't attend.

You know it's bad when throwing horseshoes makes being at the beach infinitely better.

So the non poor people can go to beaches and mountains.
I like both

Holly Beach is not the only one out there!

How have we made it this far without mentioning SaltLife or 30A

Kid, get offa my yard.

Years ago, the coastal beaches used to have a street (ONE street) inland from the sand dunes. That street would have houses on the water side and some houses on the other side of the road.

Rent one of those houses, walk the beach in midsummer and see maybe two or three people out ever half mile or so.

The Outer Banks still had wooden ship wrecks and open access to the wrecks.
Shells were plentiful after beach churning storms.
People didn't litter and if they found litter, they'd remove it.

Motels might be three stories high.

That's why old timers have a love for the beaches that were.

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So the non poor people can go to beaches and mountains.
I like both

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Not poor but honestly if my wife didn't like going I'd be fine with never going to the beach again in my life. I do like salt water fishing occasionally though. Guess everyone has their thing.