I live on the beach.
Everyone I know is envious.
However, I can’t tell you how many times I have wished that we had chosen to buy a house a bit further inland! Yes the view is amazing. It is nice to hear the waves at night (unless there is a scary storm). It is also nice to just walk out my front door and go for a beach walk or an ocean swim. However, it is aggravating to have sand in my house consistently. It is scary when a hurricane, or sizable storm, comes my way. My associate and I end up having to room with a neighbor for a few days while we worry whether we will have a house to come back to. Another complication is rust from all of the salt in the air and in the soil. My associate and I consistently have to maintenance things as the nails rust out of the house, then our motorcar looks 10 years older then it is. Also, our Heating & A/C system breaks down all of the time. My associate and I have plastic air duct and use as much plastic as we can. However, the inner toiling of our Heating & A/C system are all metal. With salt in the air all of the time this causes rust and erosion inside of our Heating & A/C system. These Heating & A/C systems should last about 20 years. Ours last about 8 years if we are blessed. My associate and I have regular maintenance 4 times a year and we have to pay to replace components at least once a year until it can no longer be fixed. So no, I don’t absolutely like living on the beach.