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Title: how many people here live near the coast
Post by: Parts on October 28, 2008, 07:16:20 PM
Just curious who many people here live within a few miles from the coast. I am only about 3/4 of a mile from Long Island sound
Title: Re: how many people here live near the cost
Post by: Icequeen on October 28, 2008, 07:47:01 PM
I wish. Nothing scenic around here. :P
Title: Re: how many people here live near the cost
Post by: Nocturnalist! on October 28, 2008, 07:52:22 PM
I live something like 3 miles inland of the southern coast, UK.
Title: Re: how many people here live near the cost
Post by: Tesla on October 28, 2008, 07:54:30 PM
I wish.

It's over a two hour drive to the beach.
Title: Re: how many people here live near the cost
Post by: Parts on October 28, 2008, 08:05:35 PM
I have always lived at or near sea level never more than 3 miles from the water
Title: Re: how many people here live near the cost
Post by: Christopher McCandless on October 28, 2008, 08:14:03 PM
Me. If I couild afford skydiving this year then I would land in the ocean if I liked...
Title: Re: how many people here live near the cost
Post by: renaeden on October 29, 2008, 05:41:48 AM
I live about 15 minutes walk from the sea.
Title: Re: how many people here live near the cost
Post by: enronh on October 29, 2008, 07:40:40 AM
coasting to the beach.
Title: Re: how many people here live near the cost
Post by: duncvis on October 29, 2008, 02:42:16 PM
a good fifty miles away, unfortunately. :(
Title: Re: how many people here live near the cost
Post by: odeon on October 29, 2008, 02:55:10 PM
From the sea? Around 20 kilometres. But we have a river right next to us. :)
Title: Re: how many people here live near the coast
Post by: Lucifer on October 29, 2008, 03:34:32 PM
oh, coAst!  :laugh:

too far for me, sadly.  i want to move nearer the coast, but with global warming, i'm iffy about it.
Title: Re: how many people here live near the coast
Post by: Parts on October 29, 2008, 03:43:43 PM
I want to move to the mountains 
Title: Re: how many people here live near the coast
Post by: Nocturnalist! on October 29, 2008, 05:17:20 PM
I want to move to the mountains 

Don't you mean the islands ;)
Title: Re: how many people here live near the coast
Post by: Natalia Evans on October 29, 2008, 07:49:41 PM
Not a few miles, I live 100 miles away from the coast.
Title: Re: how many people here live near the coast
Post by: garmonbozia on October 29, 2008, 10:26:23 PM
About an hour's drive from the coast.  With hurricanes and global warming and shit, I eventually want to be nowhere near the sea.
Title: Re: how many people here live near the coast
Post by: ALLDAYGLOWRANDY on October 30, 2008, 01:00:08 PM
My fit body can ride my bike to stonington beach, its really not that far.  We live on the coast.  I would pass stopn shop, chuckie's gas station, my grandmother's old house, stonington libary, stonington town dock, and they I would be their.  Its a fun ride for me.
Title: Re: how many people here live near the coast
Post by: Lucifer on October 30, 2008, 01:31:18 PM
My fit body can ride my bike to stonington beach, its really not that far.  We live on the coast.  I would pass stopn shop, chuckie's gas station, my grandmother's old house, stonington libary, stonington town dock, and they I would be their.  Its a fun ride for me.

do you have a special pannier for it?
Title: Re: how many people here live near the coast
Post by: renaeden on October 30, 2008, 04:19:29 PM
i want to move nearer the coast, but with global warming, i'm iffy about it.
I am a bit wary of it as well. I don't care too much about living near the beach so I wouldn't mind moving away from it.
Title: Re: how many people here live near the coast
Post by: Tesla on October 30, 2008, 06:59:51 PM
Here's an overlay to Google Maps so you can see how deep you'll be under water.

http://flood.firetree.net/
Title: Re: how many people here live near the coast
Post by: Icequeen on October 30, 2008, 09:14:22 PM
I want to move to the mountains 

Me too actually. Far enough in the woods where they have to pipe daylight in.

Title: Re: how many people here live near the coast
Post by: renaeden on October 31, 2008, 04:27:56 AM
Here's an overlay to Google Maps so you can see how deep you'll be under water.

http://flood.firetree.net/
It would be a good idea to head for the hills then.  :laugh:
Title: Re: how many people here live near the coast
Post by: TheoK on October 31, 2008, 05:11:46 AM
400 meters.  8)

(http://maps0.eniro.com/servlets/TilesDataServlet?id=SE_sv_aerial_6_20000.0_58.0_256_128_-364_-120)
Title: Re: how many people here live near the coast
Post by: vodz on October 31, 2008, 08:08:42 AM
I live about 10 minutes by car from the bay.
Title: Re: how many people here live near the coast
Post by: Trigger 11 on October 31, 2008, 08:28:44 AM
I have lived my whole life within an hour drive of the Atlantic Ocean.
Title: Re: how many people here live near the coast
Post by: Parts on October 31, 2008, 03:03:22 PM
My property values will be going up!     The end of my street will be the beach :laugh:  Just in time to sell out and move to the mountains
Title: Re: how many people here live near the coast
Post by: odeon on October 31, 2008, 03:57:00 PM
400 meters.  8)

(http://maps0.eniro.com/servlets/TilesDataServlet?id=SE_sv_aerial_6_20000.0_58.0_256_128_-364_-120)

Where is that, Lit? :-\
Title: Re: how many people here live near the coast
Post by: Lucifer on October 31, 2008, 04:55:40 PM

Where is that, Lit? :-\

near the coast.
Title: Re: how many people here live near the coast
Post by: odeon on October 31, 2008, 04:58:08 PM

Where is that, Lit? :-\

near the coast.

LOL, yes.
Title: Re: how many people here live near the coast
Post by: Eclair on October 31, 2008, 06:33:13 PM
Here's an overlay to Google Maps so you can see how deep you'll be under water.

http://flood.firetree.net/

Thanks so much for this....yes, I am pretty much going to have to buy a boat.  More disturbingly, our whole airport (in Brisbane) shows as underwater also!

I've lived near the beach all my life...I'll take the risk ;)

My property values will be going up!     The end of my street will be the beach :laugh:  Just in time to sell out and move to the mountains

 :plus:  Hilarious.
Title: Re: how many people here live near the coast
Post by: Mr Smith on October 31, 2008, 08:56:48 PM
Yep I do.
Title: Re: how many people here live near the coast
Post by: Christopher McCandless on October 31, 2008, 09:28:01 PM
oh, coAst!  :laugh:

too far for me, sadly.  i want to move nearer the coast, but with global warming, i'm iffy about it.
Bristol is pretty close to the ocean. Especially if you count that whacking great river as coast :p:
Title: Re: how many people here live near the coast
Post by: Tesla on October 31, 2008, 10:44:06 PM
Here's an overlay to Google Maps so you can see how deep you'll be under water.

http://flood.firetree.net/

Thanks so much for this....yes, I am pretty much going to have to buy a boat.  More disturbingly, our whole airport (in Brisbane) shows as underwater also!

I've lived near the beach all my life...I'll take the risk ;)

I think buying a boat sounds like a fantastic idea.  I always had a dream of buying an oil tanker, or container ship, and having my own floating island.  If the ship was big enough, it may be possible to live almost entirely off of it.  Grow your own vegetables, milk the cow, choke feed the chicken.
Title: Re: how many people here live near the coast
Post by: duncvis on November 01, 2008, 05:00:18 AM
400 meters.  8)


Where is that, Lit? :-\

Litigistan!  :laugh:
Title: Re: how many people here live near the coast
Post by: Lucifer on November 01, 2008, 11:42:03 AM
400 meters.  8)


Where is that, Lit? :-\

Litigistan-by-the-sea!  :laugh:

fixed.
Title: Re: how many people here live near the coast
Post by: odeon on November 01, 2008, 12:32:02 PM
:laugh:
Title: Re: how many people here live near the coast
Post by: Callaway on November 02, 2008, 02:39:43 AM
I want to move to the mountains 

I live in the mountains about 800 to 900 miles away from the coast.
Title: Re: how many people here live near the coast
Post by: Lucifer on November 02, 2008, 03:08:17 AM
how many people live near the coat?

(don't mind me - i'm on one this morning :laugh: ).
Title: Re: how many people here live near the coast
Post by: Scrapheap on November 06, 2008, 01:32:33 AM
I'm about 15 miles from the Pacific Ocean. It's a straight shot down the 55 freeway to Newport Beach from here.
Title: Re: how many people here live near the coast
Post by: Leto729 on November 06, 2008, 09:51:59 AM
When I lived in Florida, I lived within 25 miles from the coast.

Living in South Dakota I am 1500+ miles from the coast now.
Title: Re: how many people here live near the coast
Post by: Dexter Morgan on November 06, 2008, 01:11:06 PM
I live 100 yards from the Atlantic ocean now
Title: Re: how many people here live near the coast
Post by: McGiver on November 06, 2008, 05:55:49 PM
i work at the docks and live a few miles from the pacific ocean.
Title: Re: how many people here live near the coast
Post by: Christopher McCandless on November 07, 2008, 06:13:34 AM
Its about 10 miles from me atm. Without a car though, it may as well be 100.
Title: Re: how many people here live near the coast
Post by: Parts on November 13, 2008, 06:02:00 PM
I live less than a mile from this beach.  It looks better in the vid than real life
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tI-LuLf506s
Title: Re: how many people here live near the coast
Post by: Alex179 on November 14, 2008, 01:37:12 PM
It is a 25 minute drive from my parent's house.    They have a condo that is on the beach also (private access).   The Atlantic is nice in that the water is warm enough to swim in most of the year.   It was warm enough yesterday to wear shorts haha.
Title: Re: how many people here live near the coast
Post by: Tesla on November 14, 2008, 04:51:04 PM
I live less than a mile from this beach.  It looks better in the vid than real life
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tI-LuLf506s
Charles Island is in that video...

Let's go treasure hunting Parts.
Title: Re: how many people here live near the coast
Post by: Parts on November 14, 2008, 06:05:02 PM
I live less than a mile from this beach.  It looks better in the vid than real life
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tI-LuLf506s
Charles Island is in that video...

Let's go treasure hunting Parts.

Been out there lots of rats and poison ivy few ruins though.  It's closed in the summer but if you come up now it's open I'll get my metal detector ready :laugh:
Title: Re: how many people here live near the coast
Post by: punkdrew on November 15, 2008, 03:14:01 AM
I'm about 15 miles from the Pacific Ocean. It's a straight shot down the 55 freeway to Newport Beach from here.

I live near Scrap so we're roughly equidistant from sand/H2O.
Title: Re: how many people here live near the coast
Post by: richard on November 16, 2008, 09:14:47 AM
i dont. i live in the lofty mountains of the southwest :)
Title: Re: how many people here live near the coast
Post by: McGiver on November 17, 2008, 07:21:04 AM
i dont. i live in the lofty mountains of the southwest :)
where mountains throne and hardons throb?
Title: Re: how many people here live near the coast
Post by: richard on November 17, 2008, 09:15:11 AM
pretty much. its a college town so hot guys are everywhere! :hornysign:
Title: Re: how many people here live near the coast
Post by: Frolic_Fun on November 18, 2008, 05:33:28 AM
Sadly you won't get them. :hahaha:
Title: Re: how many people here live near the coast
Post by: P7PSP on December 02, 2008, 07:27:03 PM
I live close to the Ocean but have not seen any of it except SF Bay (while taking the Ferry to Giants games, that's fun) for the past 5 years or so.
Title: Re: how many people here live near the coast
Post by: The_Chosen_One on December 23, 2008, 06:09:14 AM
I don't live really near the ocean but some of Melbourne's suburbs are close to the sea.
Title: Re: how many people here live near the coast
Post by: Phlexor on December 23, 2008, 08:28:31 AM
I don't live really near the ocean but some of Melbourne's suburbs are close to the sea.

What suburb do you live in? I'm down Rowville way.
Title: Re: how many people here live near the coast
Post by: DirtDawg on December 31, 2008, 05:26:33 PM


hardly near enough to take pictures.

hatecamera!
Title: Re: how many people here live near the coast
Post by: Alex179 on February 14, 2009, 01:30:13 PM
Right now I live about 200 feet from the beach.  We have a private walkway that crosses over the street and goes onto the beach.  It is a long drive to UNF, where I take classes.
Title: Re: how many people here live near the coast
Post by: 'andersom' on February 27, 2009, 04:54:23 PM
I live just a few km from where the coast used to be.
In the former sea.
Living a few metres below sealevel. And far away from the seacoast.

Title: Re: how many people here live near the coast
Post by: TheoK on February 27, 2009, 05:15:30 PM
Ah, you're a Dutch! :toporly:
Title: Re: how many people here live near the coast
Post by: Parts on February 27, 2009, 05:16:51 PM
I only live a few meters above sea level
Title: Re: how many people here live near the coast
Post by: TheoK on February 27, 2009, 05:19:07 PM
But you're not a Dutch.  :hahaha:
Title: Re: how many people here live near the coast
Post by: Parts on February 27, 2009, 05:22:33 PM
No I'm American and like it.  Think I'll go out and get a gun :hahaha:
Title: Re: how many people here live near the coast
Post by: TheoK on February 27, 2009, 05:23:55 PM
 :'(
Title: Re: how many people here live near the coast
Post by: Phlexor on February 27, 2009, 10:40:53 PM
:'(
:pwned:
Title: Re: how many people here live near the coast
Post by: TheoK on February 28, 2009, 03:00:21 AM
But I'll get one anyway, and that's BRAVER.  8)
Title: Re: how many people here live near the coast
Post by: Diesel on February 28, 2009, 06:30:24 PM
I'm an 8 hour drive from the Atlantic.
Title: Re: how many people here live near the coast
Post by: Parts on February 28, 2009, 06:35:02 PM
There is a tidal marsh at the end of my street that empties into Long Island Sound
Title: Re: how many people here live near the coast
Post by: renaeden on March 02, 2009, 07:11:05 AM
Ten minute walk from the Indian Ocean. :)
Title: Re: how many people here live near the coast
Post by: Phlexor on March 03, 2009, 02:53:10 AM
Ten minute walk from the Indian Ocean. :)

Even our oceans are outsourced to India these days  ::)
Title: Re: how many people here live near the coast
Post by: renaeden on March 10, 2019, 07:36:13 PM
Here's an overlay to Google Maps so you can see how deep you'll be under water.

http://flood.firetree.net/
This is scary. Though when there is a real threat, I'll move to my parents', they're quite a long way inland.
Title: Re: how many people here live near the coast
Post by: Minister Of Silly Walks on March 10, 2019, 07:59:11 PM
I live about 20 minutes drive from an ocean beach. We have a couple of different rivers within 5 or 10 minutes drive. And a creek about 10 minutes walk.

Property near the beach here is stupidly expensive. We are going through a "correction" in property prices right now, the only question is how big the correction will be.
Title: Re: how many people here live near the coast
Post by: sg1008 on March 11, 2019, 09:03:20 AM
I live in a river valley, waaaay inland. Mountain ranges separate us from the seas to the east and west...and hills surround us to the north and south. even the northern sea (by way of glaciers) has evaded this area, stopping just ahead of us, creating some of those hills I mentioned.

I wonder what it's like to live by the sea...  :apondering:

Title: Re: how many people here live near the coast
Post by: Parts on March 11, 2019, 04:36:43 PM
I live in a river valley, waaaay inland. Mountain ranges separate us from the seas to the east and west...and hills surround us to the north and south. even the northern sea (by way of glaciers) has evaded this area, stopping just ahead of us, creating some of those hills I mentioned.

 I wonder what it's like to live by the sea ...  :apondering:
I wonder what it's like not to :zoinks:
Might be moving 15 to 20 miles inland in the next year or so,   so I might find out
Title: Re: how many people here live near the coast
Post by: sg1008 on March 11, 2019, 07:51:42 PM
I live in a river valley, waaaay inland. Mountain ranges separate us from the seas to the east and west...and hills surround us to the north and south. even the northern sea (by way of glaciers) has evaded this area, stopping just ahead of us, creating some of those hills I mentioned.

 I wonder what it's like to live by the sea ...  :apondering:
I wonder what it's like not to :zoinks:
Might be moving 15 to 20 miles inland in the next year or so,   so I might find out

 :laugh: Well, good luck with the move!

In my imagination, the air must smell like salt or fish if one lives by the sea. Is this true?
Title: Re: how many people here live near the coast
Post by: renaeden on March 12, 2019, 04:04:16 AM
Along our foreshore, there's a section where all you can smell is bird shit - that's not so nice.

For the most part, it smells like salt.
Title: Re: how many people here live near the coast
Post by: Parts on March 12, 2019, 08:59:13 AM
I live in a river valley, waaaay inland. Mountain ranges separate us from the seas to the east and west...and hills surround us to the north and south. even the northern sea (by way of glaciers) has evaded this area, stopping just ahead of us, creating some of those hills I mentioned.

 I wonder what it's like to live by the sea ...  :apondering:
I wonder what it's like not to :zoinks:
Might be moving 15 to 20 miles inland in the next year or so,   so I might find out

 :laugh: Well, good luck with the move!

In my imagination, the air must smell like salt or fish if one lives by the sea. Is this true?

I can smell the salt at my house  when the wind is right and when something bad happens like a fish kill.  Down by the water there is a smell at low tide but the rest of the time it's just salty air.
Title: Re: how many people here live near the coast
Post by: sg1008 on March 12, 2019, 10:28:25 AM
Salty air! Interesting!

Last night I had a dream about the ocean... A beach somehow appeared near us, and I parked my friends car somewhere at low tide (not realising the tide would change), and when I returned it had been washed into the vast sea.

The weather was overcast, as if a big rain storm was on the way, and the ocean looked grey. I ran down to the beach to touch the water, but most of the shore was developed so there was only a little strip of beach accessible to folks. There were all kinds of people there, including many homeless people (a crowded beach)....There was one little foot trail in the sand that went through the crowds of people, and I accidentally messed up a sandcastle someone was building when I walked past it. I dont recall smelling anything...I was too focused on the visuals...
Title: Re: how many people here live near the coast
Post by: odeon on March 12, 2019, 11:29:02 AM
I love the smell of the sea. I live too far from the sea for that, but...
Title: Re: how many people here live near the coast
Post by: Minister Of Silly Walks on March 12, 2019, 05:46:03 PM
Living near a warm-ish ocean has a moderating effect on temperatures. The last place I lived was about a mile, or just under 2 km, from the ocean, and we didn't even need heating in winter. I think the coldest it ever got there was 6 C, early morning in the middle of winter one time. Normal winter minimums were around 10 Celsius. Didn't need a jacket even. And unpleasantly hot weather was rare as well.

A lot of the smell of the sea comes from things like stagnant saltwater on rock platforms, seaweed, mud flats, pollution. If the ocean is clean and there are sandy beaches without too much tidal variation in water levels, then there isn't much smell at all.
Title: Re: how many people here live near the coast
Post by: Jack on March 12, 2019, 08:43:51 PM
Jack lives in paradise. When the weather isn't paradise, then it's raining.
Title: Re: how many people here live near the coast
Post by: sg1008 on March 13, 2019, 06:23:30 PM
Jack lives in paradise. When the weather isn't paradise, then it's raining.

Is this paradise near to the sea?
Title: Re: how many people here live near the coast
Post by: renaeden on March 14, 2019, 03:39:30 AM
The place Kayleigh and I used to live in was much closer to the sea. A 10 minute walk. At night it was possible to hear the waves on the beach. It was a comforting sound.

Now all we hear is traffic and sirens.

The foreshore is close and the coast is beyond that but because buildings are in the way, that's probably the reason for not hearing the waves.
Title: Re: how many people here live near the coast
Post by: rock hound on March 14, 2019, 03:18:56 PM
About 20-25 miles depending upon which roads we take.   
Title: Re: how many people here live near the coast
Post by: Charlotte Quin on March 18, 2019, 04:35:26 AM
The ocean is about 5km away from where I am. Would be about a 40 min walk to the nearest beach; 10 minute walk to the estuary, then 30 mins walk along the shoreline that snakes around to said beach. Entirely flat level walk btw, and yes will definitely be back under water one day.

There is also a man made canal 50m away behind the houses across the road (I live on the unfancy edge of a fancy area).
Title: Re: how many people here live near the coast
Post by: renaeden on March 18, 2019, 05:06:40 AM
There's man made canals near where I live too. And an estuary as well. Rich people have their holiday houses on the canals.
Title: Re: how many people here live near the coast
Post by: DirtDawg on March 18, 2019, 11:46:21 AM
I grew up about half an hour from the Gulf Of Mexico and I miss it, mainly the fishing and availability of all the fresh seafood I could want.

I now live in landlocked Indiana. A day's drive to an ocean.
BTW, it is not considered safe to eat what you catch from the rivers and lakes, due to mankind's habits.
:bigcry:
Title: Re: how many people here live near the coast
Post by: renaeden on November 09, 2019, 05:06:00 AM
Sometimes at night if it's really still - no wind - I can hear the waves on the beach.
Title: Re: how many people here live near the coast
Post by: Charlotte Quin on November 10, 2019, 07:19:08 AM
I have too much surrounding ambient noise to hear the waves properly at night.
Title: Re: how many people here live near the coast
Post by: 'andersom' on February 09, 2020, 05:40:16 AM
I hear the sound of the wind. Theoretically, a massive massive storm could have me ending up living in the sea.

Highly highly unlikely. Living behind a set of the most secure dykes. And those are protected by yet another dyke and a blow up temp dam construction.
Title: Re: how many people here live near the coast
Post by: Eclair on February 25, 2020, 08:35:21 PM
I can see the ocean where I live, but just a touch too far away to hear the waves
Title: Re: how many people here live near the coast
Post by: odeon on February 26, 2020, 12:53:14 AM
Welcome back, Eclair! How have you been?
Title: Re: how many people here live near the coast
Post by: MEATUS MCGIRTHERATOR on March 24, 2020, 10:33:59 AM
HOPE EVERY FUCKING ONE OF YOU DROWNS.
Title: Re: how many people here live near the coast
Post by: odeon on March 24, 2020, 03:49:27 PM
I'm sorry you're hurting. You've come to the right place, though. Tell us more.
Title: Re: how many people here live near the coast
Post by: MEATUS MCGIRTHERATOR on March 25, 2020, 01:20:24 PM
I'm sorry you're hurting. You've come to the right place, though. Tell us more.

YOUR COMPASSION REVEALS YOU TO BE A WEAKLING.

IF YOU WERE HURTING, I WOULDN'T EVEN CARE.
Title: Re: how many people here live near the coast
Post by: odeon on March 26, 2020, 03:01:21 AM
Initial setbacks are common. Don't despair just yet. :hug:
Title: Re: how many people here live near the coast
Post by: Yuri Bezmenov on August 22, 2020, 07:34:51 PM
I spent 25+ years of my life within a short drive to the ocean in California.

20 years in Santa Barbara County, off and on, and 5 years in Orange County; plus 5 months in San Diego County for Marine Corps boot camp and basic infantry training.  :tooledup:

I had lived in Orange County for 2 1/2 years when I started posting here.

Edit: I forgot to mention the 6 months I was in North Carolina in Camp Lejeune going to engineering school. My barracks building was a 1/4 mile from Courthouse Bay.