Have you ever lived on the seafront?

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I've lived about 5/10 minutes walk from the sea when I was a child, but I've never actually lived on the seafront and dream of being able to do so.

If you've lived on the seafront, as in the beach is right outside your front door, what is it like?

I do now. I honestly love it. I have very poor health currently and it is so much easier to be ill while looking at a blue sky and sea. The sounds too.

My FWB does. He got rid of his TV because watching the sea is far, far more relaxing.

No rat or spiders here. But a stream of tourists in high season and then deadly quiet in winter. I loved the sea but missed having a garden and found the seasonal nature of tourism hard to reconcile sometimes. I work from home and would have to listen endless people eating ice creams walk past.

The views are endlessly fascinating but the best part is swimming everyday in the summer.

It Is also really windy. most of the winter I’d head away from the seafront to get to more sheltered fields and woodland. The town we lived in was a retirement town and it was lonely as a new mum. A city by the sea? Now that’s the dream.

For about a year, I lived in a rented flat above an amusement arcade in Ramsgate, with the beach just over the road. The flat was cut into the chalk cliff, along with a few houses.

There was a nightclub abut 100 yards away but I didn't find it too rowdy. I probably would now.

The best times were when it was stormy and grey and deserted.

Grew up there, small village nearish Brighton - It's honestly not all it's cracked up to be, the stink of seaweed and fish can really grate on you over time and it's rarely sunny or warm enough to actually enjoy it.

It can also be exceedingly windy.

And then of course Southern Water dumping sewage isn't exactly a new phenomena unfortunately.
Obviously that comes with it's own smells too.

I think it's a case of "the grass is always greener" to be honest.

I do.

It's beautiful. I love having my windows open and listening to the sea on the night and the smell of the sea. My car is always filthy and sand is always lurking in my house no matter how much I vaccum but I wouldn't change it for the world.

Salt = Rust and alot of it

Yes, it's fantastic. Salty door handles yes, but no rats or spiders and we are high up so no flooding.

I had a very lovely regency flat on Brighton seafront that was just wonderful, big windows able to watch all the comings and goings and the sea. Loved it. I live by a river now which I also love, calmer, more greenery and wildlife. I think it’s totally worth the premium and it’s actually surprising how affordable it is and how much other people seem to think it’s desirable in general but don’t want to pay the small premium

Not UK but we have a house behind the house on the beach front. We can see the water from our deck and the walk is less than 30 seconds to the beach. Because of that, we're slightly protected but we will at some point have to have the house lifted as the tide keeps coming higher and higher. That house is absolutely my most favorite place on the planet.

Yes, live near the sea front in the Caribbean. Literally, one road between our house and the sea front. It is a cliff, but next beach is a minute drive away.

Love the quitness and sound of the ocean. positive is that as we are between a hill and the sea, it is always breezy and a little bit cooler than the rest of the island. Downsides are the maintenance due to salt mainly.

Fil owns a chalet that is in the St.Lawrence river - a ginormous river which is where the Atlantic heads into Canada. It's about 2 km wide where it is.

The views are impressive - icebergs and seals etc in winter

The beach is very rocky but very scenic as it's tidal, always changing

Yes. Was lucky enough to live in a small apartment on a surf beach in Australia (not bondi) was amazing, loved the view, the fresh sea air and being able to go the the beach without fighting for a parking space. It was about aud140/week. Was sad to leave the place

also grew up with a “cottage” on the beach for holidays. Run out the front door, across a sandy track and we were on the beach. Amazing. And still my favourite place on earth 😢

I lived from 10-18 on Vancouver Island. I lived by the beach at one point and it was lovely. So peaceful.

Pamela Anderson lives not far from where I grew up. While watching her documentary I realized how much I miss it. 💖

Yes and still do it’s horrible wet and cold(Brighton)

Yes what's with the constant shrieking!

No but my friend as a child had a second home on the beach. (As in right on a part of beach was garden) I stayed summer holidays...it was bliss. You'd wake up to the sound of waves lapping and eating breakfast next to a large window just watching boats. It was so zen..if I lived there I wouldn't need therapy 😂

I have, 1 block back in Perth, Australia. We once had a pelican caught in the trampoline net, flew in but couldn’t get out. Seagulls and the rotting stench of seaweed another downfall. Plus snakes in summer, I was walking down the path and this runner came behind me and said oooh that was a big one. Your car needs to be washed more too due to the salt.

But the kids loved it, ages 5-12 years, they did school swimming lessons in the ocean, joined little nippers, would grab their boogie boards and we would walk down every night around 6pm. A great life style, perfect for a hot environment, lots of good times and amazing summer storms.

As a student in the 90s I lived on Undercliffe Rd in Boscombe. Far enough away not to have sea spray and salt over the windows but we did have drifts of sand up the front steps and we could see the sea from the living room window. Shamefully, we largely ignored it. Went home over the summer so missed the worst of the tourists. I think we were more concerned about proximity to local bars tbh.

I've dreamt of living by the sea my whole life, until today when I found out there's such a thing as big hairy fucking BEACH SPIDERS 😳

I spent a year living on the Scores in St Andrews as a student. I don't think I really appreciated it, would kill to live there now!

This is my dream, but I need recommendations of where to live exactly! Cornwall is heaving with tourists and expensive. It has to be South for the weather.

Oh there are more things lurking. I picked up a sand worm as a young teen. Seeing as I knew it all then, I never ever mentioned it to my mum and just kept scratching. It did not take that long before it had invaded all the way up my leg (from my foot).

Off we trot to the doctors asap, it was so bad he took a photo of it to show his colleagues.

On another occasion I had a piece of shell stuck in my foot. It was so deep (and of course I left that way too long as well), that I had to have a whole incision in my foot to get it removed.

Still do love to walk barefoot on the sand though 😃

Stock phrases include 'it's cold' and 'woo woo' . By adults.... And the man who ties his dog to the promenade railings for 2 hours.. It barks for those hours every day. Have reported them to everyone but God. Nobody cares.

Even have the RNLI in my side and 2 people have died in the past 2 years. Out there in the storm last winter 1 died and 1 had a heart attack last summer.. After being coaxed in by the ring leader. ...

I have a flat in a seaside town , it's not directly on the front but I enjoy walking on the promenade every day . The seagulls and their noise / mess do grate though .