Would you rather have a beach house or a lake house?
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BooMan
Martin Longman a contributing editor at the Washington Monthly. He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.
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With the oceans rising, I’ll take a lake house.
Beach. More scantily clad women than at the lake 🙂
born in Minnesota.
I’ll take the beacg any day.
I want a beach house, on a lake.
I (sort of) have a beach house, and it gets old pretty fast. Sand, wind, bugs, crashing surf, wind, noise, wind, the smell of suntan lotion, bugs, sand fleas. I always crave a quiet lake after about 2 days there.
The beach is highly over rated. Crowded in the summer, with no parking. Then night falls and you get drunks pissing on your lawn.
I’ll take a lake house, somewhere far from the beaten path.
nalbar
lake house. I get enough of the sun where I live and only enjoy the beach in the evenings/night. My tan is built-in 😉
Beach house. Lakes, at least all the ones that I’ve ever seen, are brown and murky and totally uninviting for swimming. Give me a beach any time.
You have obviously never seen Lake Michigan. Less the actual surf to surf on, all you could want from an ocean and no salt.
but it ain’t necessarily safe from sharks.
You just have to rain on my parade, don’t you? And I didn’t even make the case that nothing in the lake can eat you (but you’ve heard me make it many times before, I know).
Still, hands down, from my admittedly limited perspective – it can’t be beat.
well hello there, sir, hope you’re doing well despite the presence of sharks in your beloved waters 🙂
Hey WW, good to see you.
I’m with you on loving lake Michigan. And the sharks only eat Pennsylvanians.
boran2 – Oval Beach is one of my favorite places and is as great if not better than any ocean beach I’ve been on.
On a lake, hopefully a lake surrounded by forests. Don’t care much about going in or on the water, but I sure love to look at it. And I like small, quiet lakes. The ocean is beautiful, but altogether too hyper to live near, at least for me.
Lake house except for two weeks in August at a Beach house.
I’d like a lake house in Northern Minnesota or Ontario for the summer and fall. And a house on a cliff on the Oregon coast for winter and spring (not technically on a beach but I could look out at the ocean.)
l love the kinetic power of the ocean, so it’s definitely beach…or more appropriately, ocean-side.
preferably on the pacific side of the baja.
Ditto.
Beach House, Lake House? My interests are culinary. Lake = FW fish, Frogs and delectable crawdads. Snakes etc. scare me. Beach = Abalone, Crab, Oyster, Shrimp, Mussels, SW fish, Lobster, Clams and some scary big things. Beach/Lake both have bad bugs and allergens. Send me to the Beach!
The oceanside beach forever.
The ocean is a constantly changing force of nature.
You do not need to smell suntan lotion & endure assholes pissing on your lawn to be at the beach.
I`ve lived at the beach for many years & I would not want to live elsewhere.
I spent my childhood summers at the beaches on the Atlantic, of Prince Edward Island & now my adulthood on the beaches of sunny Southern California, & the past 30 years on the beaches in Malibu.
Give me the beach or give me death.
I`ve spent many months at sea in the tropics & many months on the cold North Atlantic, but as long as I can smell the salt, & hear the surf, I`m alive.
I even have ocean in my house in the form of reef tanks.
It`s not that I don`t have a comparison.
I also spent a lot of time on lakes in summer winter fall & spring.
But the ocean is what`s for me.
It is also the breath of the planet.
The Pale Blue Dot in the universe.
The Water Planet.
These are taken from my deck except for the last one at the Lagoon in Malibu.
I rest my case.
dada,
When are you coming out to the beach?
asap, but rl is kinda demanding right now.
l’ll be looking you up when l do tho. count on it!
WOW! JUST WOW BEAUTIFUL
Hi Ms Stewart,
Thank you,
I haven`t said “Hello” to you in many moons.
I hope you are well.
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My answer is yes. Either would do.
If nonetheless I had to choose, it would be a lake house on a small lake that is part of property that I would own. Then it could be a shack-teau and I wouldn’t feel obligated to try to keep up appearances.
If a beach house, something at an elevation of 35-feet above sea level would do nicely.
The beach. Beachfront. Some private beachfront.
Let’s go for both.
Duluth is a Very Cool city, and Superior is practically an ocean.
We came out of the sea. When I float on my back in the ocean I feel like I’m home.
Interesting. I’ve found that while some say
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Beach house. No contest. I wither and wilt in all climates not blessed by salty sea air.
Lake. I like to swim and too many creepy things in the ocean.
Either. I settle for my very own back yard pool where I can get on a float, watch the clouds float by through the leafy trees, listen to birds chirp, and send all my troubles down the skimmer.
Lake house. In the mountains, with lots of trees.
(Alas, the annual extended-family vacation place is in Ocean City… but I really go for the family and lazing around, and avoid the actual beach…)
For me there is distinct difference between the feelings I get from a lake and at an ocean beach.
Some others have said it here, but I find the ocean to elicit a very spiritual personal response. The sheer awe and inspiration that is tapped by the vast expanse of water and the rhythmic nature of the ocean’s breathing gives one a sense of an almost God-like creature spread out before you. It is like a worshipful experience at the altar of an almost unimaginable and mysterious force.
A lake, by contrast, tends to make me more contemplative and introspective of the here and now. A lake can be such a diverse and dynamic being if you just take the time to calm your mind and spirit and let the entirety of the surroundings envelope you. You see life played out right before your eyes, both from under and above the water in so many surprising ways. It presents a summation of all that exists and takes place in our daily lives. It is a subtle but high profile stage from which we can learn many of life’s lessons and truths.
So for me personally, I would find it necessary to have both a beach house and lake house. That is the only way to close the circle of life.
serendipity, Dr. Beach just published his top 10 beaches in america 2009…lat…l gotta agree, hanalei bay, on kauai, is absolutely georgous, and generally sparsely populated, as the south end of the island is where all the ‘big’ resorts are.