I'd love to have a small house on the beach. I've always been found of the ocean ever since I was little. Plus the ocean waves are so relaxing to hear at night.
My pad is about a 15 minute bus ride away from Brighton beach, so I'm not all that ennamoured of a beach, and as for living in a tent, forget it !!! I prefer my creature comforts, so if I go away - then I stay in a hotel.
I've got the best of both worlds. I live a 10 minute walk down the channel from Lake Michigan. Beautiful state park another 5 minutes walk. I really wouldn't want to live directly on the shore. Just as the oceans are rising, so are the great lakes. I also have property an hour or so north in the woods. It is my get away camp. And will become my retirement homestead.
Hmm. Advantages to both. The beach is kinda more my style (barefooter, love the waves, pretty much always a laid back vibe at the beach). Cabin is kind of what I’d want for the zombie apocalypse. Plus I’d presumably be able to let my 2nd amendment fly!! Either way I wouldn’t want a big house. Sounds like a nightmare.
Beach, hands down. As one who loves the ocean, I want beach. The house can be a ramshackle driftwood hut to an ostentatious mansion. Just gimme da beach!
I'm a summer loving person. I'd live in a caribbean island all year long if I could. So the only right answer for me is a cabin BY the beach
They do get flooded a lot and it gets old after a while, so build it up high and strong, so it won't go out from under you in a Cat 5 And with that comes the up and down of stairs with ever whip stitch. Answer....put some basic facilities down under after code enforcement signs off on it.
Having lived in a wooden shack on a beach in the Caribbean islands, I can say it has it's ups and downs. The waves a night while you sleep are great! The insects are insane. Be prepared for it! Coconuts falling on your tin roof are quite startling! Collecting rain water in a 55 gallon steel barrel seemed really neat, until it became a sea of mosquito larvae. Solution? Some fresh water fish from the creek to eat them up...along with some netting for the top of the barrel. I could go on, but fires on the beach at night are surely awesome!
I live off grid in very remote wilderness of northern Ontario Canada,, nothing like,, so peaceful,no light,air or noise pollution,, great fishing,hunting, snowmobiling and 4 wheeling,, it’s serene and no one watching or interfering with my lifestyle,,
I would go for the cabin on a lake, because my grandparents built on and the whole family (immediate and extended) would spend as much time there as we all could... Though not all at once. I like beaches, but I prefer lakes, forests and as few people as possible.