Do you live by the sea?

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Is it good? Or do you take it for granted?

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Sunday, 26 January 2003 18:29 (twenty-three years ago)

i never have

but sometimes i think it would be nice. lincolnshire perhaps...

― gareth (gareth), Sunday, 26 January 2003 18:40 (twenty-three years ago)

With the exception of upstate New York for three years, I have never lived anywhere further from the sea than five or so miles, and sometimes have lived within comfortable walking distance. That's being with a Navy dad for you, of course, but even years away from home I still need to be near the ocean. Just to know that the land ends, somehow.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 26 January 2003 19:01 (twenty-three years ago)

I did until I was three, but a) I remember none of it, and b) it was Weston. For those not familiar with this wonderful seaside resort, an average of two people a week in summer have to be rescued from the mud.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 26 January 2003 19:39 (twenty-three years ago)

yes, i live by the sea. i would recommend it.

― michael wells (michael w.), Sunday, 26 January 2003 19:44 (twenty-three years ago)

No. But I'd love to. I always seem to feel better if I'm near water. Lake Ontario (that I do live by) isn't all that different really (aside from the salt of course). It's big enough that you can't see the other side.

― Kim (Kim), Sunday, 26 January 2003 19:46 (twenty-three years ago)

thats a river micheal. a river!

― gareth (gareth), Sunday, 26 January 2003 19:47 (twenty-three years ago)

well, an estuary anyway

― gareth (gareth), Sunday, 26 January 2003 19:48 (twenty-three years ago)

Long walking distance or a 10 min drive. In New Zealand it doesn't count as by the sea unless sand gets blown in the house all the time.

― isadora (isadora), Sunday, 26 January 2003 19:52 (twenty-three years ago)

I live in Southend-on-Sea,which is a bit of a con as it is really on the Thames Estuary.But it is still a seaside town,with an amusement park,cliff gardens,loads of arcades with all the latest video games and fruit machines,plenty of nightclubs,and a healthy car cruising scene.Apart from the traffic nightmare that sets in every Bank Holiday,it's not a bad place to live.They still have a yearly carnival,funfair,and a free airshow.The only down side is the amount of asylum seekers(most of them are the freeloading type who know EXACTLY how to milk the system)who have been placed here due to the amount of guest houses and hotels.
I used to live on the Isle of Man,which is surrounded by real sea.That was a nightmare,it's like bieng on Alcatraz Island.The people that run the place are a bunch of twats who don't live in the real world.I got deported for holding illegal beach raves and setting up a pirate station.They don't like that sort of thing.

― Eugene Speed (Eugene Speed), Sunday, 26 January 2003 19:53 (twenty-three years ago)

I won a cuddly toy pig at Southend in 1998. I was 23 and really should have know better.

― Lara (Lara), Sunday, 26 January 2003 19:55 (twenty-three years ago)

I won a cuddly toy pig at Southend in 1998. I was 23 and really should have known better.

― Lara (Lara), Sunday, 26 January 2003 19:55 (twenty-three years ago)

gareth, it is also the sea. check yr maps.

― michael wells (michael w.), Sunday, 26 January 2003 19:57 (twenty-three years ago)

I grew up in the American Midwest -- can't get much farther away from the sea. I guess my six years of grad school in New York City were "by the sea," but nobody in NYC seems to think of it that way.

But then I moved out to the West Coast for work in 1996, and I've lived close to the sea ever since. Currently, I'm a five-minute walk from it. The best part is falling asleep to the sound of the waves at night.

― Paul in Santa Cruz (Paul in Santa Cruz), Sunday, 26 January 2003 19:58 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh, attention-seeking me!

― Lara (Lara), Sunday, 26 January 2003 19:59 (twenty-three years ago)

You did that on the Isle of Man, good on you. I didn't believe anyone would even bother trying.

― Ed (dali), Sunday, 26 January 2003 20:01 (twenty-three years ago)

yes, the North Sea. its pretty horrible, really.

yay for coastal erosion.

― david mc, Sunday, 26 January 2003 20:15 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh yeah,we tried alright.I had a sound system and a transit van.Perfect for just setting up wherever we wanted and havin a rave.My very first big rave was in 1991,and the plod went apeshit.They tried to close us down,but it was like five coppers(that was a large percentage of the IOM police force then)against four hundred ravers,so they pissed off and arrested me at work the following week for....littering!That was the best they could come up with,as they had no laws on raves like the mainland UK.Subsequent parties were carefully planned to fall JUST within the laws on land use,noise pollution,etc.That really got up their noses.But the final straw was the radio caper.We used a hotel in Douglas as a studio,and made sure we knew exactly when the Radio Investigation Service(hello to the RIS,Warrington-you MUGS!)were coming over on the boat.Unfortunately for the RIS,they forgot to apply for work permits,and we lodged a complaint against them and got all our gear back!HAR!HAR!After a few years of running a totally legit mobile disco company as a front to our underground activities,the IOM Government saw fit to have me booted off their precious rock,so I came to Essex (where I was born)and joined the dance scene over here!

― Eugene Speed (Eugene Speed), Sunday, 26 January 2003 20:17 (twenty-three years ago)

TOXIC 103fm!What a lash-up!But it worked!

― Eugene Speed (Eugene Speed), Sunday, 26 January 2003 20:18 (twenty-three years ago)

I plan to live by the sea one day. I plan to move away from London within the next 3-4 years.

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 26 January 2003 20:25 (twenty-three years ago)

wot kim sed. except for the lake ontario bit.

― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Sunday, 26 January 2003 20:29 (twenty-three years ago)

I've never lived right by the sea itself, but I've often lived near water: I grew up an hour inland, but with a creek (do they say that in British English? Creek = small stream) running through the woods behind the field, and we had a cabin on the lake a ways north. I moved to Western Massachusetts for college, and was nowhere near significant bodies of water; I live in New Orleans now, so not only am I not far from the Gulf of Mexico, the city is filled with river and lake and criss-crossing canals, and it's great.

The air is different when you live near water. And the seafood's always fresh :)

― Tep (ktepi), Sunday, 26 January 2003 20:31 (twenty-three years ago)

I'd love to live in New Orleans! Do they need any video editors?

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Sunday, 26 January 2003 20:41 (twenty-three years ago)

yeah i live right by the sea but its also a working port so its kinda industrial as well as therapeutic. however just getting thru the tunnel and seeing the harbour and the southern bays and the blue blue sea at the end of a working day is choice.

― hellbaby (hellbaby), Sunday, 26 January 2003 21:23 (twenty-three years ago)

my new flat overlooks the firth of forth, on a clear day i can see fife. Thankfully i'm far enough away from the water to not have to worry about flooding.

― leigh (leigh), Monday, 27 January 2003 11:17 (twenty-three years ago)

From my bedroom window (and the music room window too) I can only see some other houses plus some grass and a few trees. But from the other side of the house you can see the sea composing the horizon just beyond the end of our estate. Apart from three years at university (and the first six months of my life when we lived in a different town) I've always lived in this house in this little Devon seaside town, and by and large it is beautiful and I wouldn't really want to swap it for anywhere else.

Each morning I leave the house at 7.30 in order to walk down the cliff-facr to the train station. This morning the sky was deep blue above me, and a gorgeous rusted umber colour above the sea on the horizon. The moon was clear and high, Venus was sharp, the clouds above the horizon were picked out in luminescent gold, the sea at the shore was deep blue, in the middle distance it was almost silver and it shimmered, and towards the horizon it was deep blue again. I deliberately left a few minutes early today so I could stand on the cliff top and take it all in. When faced with a spectacle like this every morning, you have to ask yourself why some people feel the need to go to war, or even to disagree with anyone about anything. In the presence of beauty like this, really, awesomely sublime beauty that is utterly uncontrollable and utterly natural, nothing else matters. It's nice to see that first thing in the morning.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Monday, 27 January 2003 11:26 (twenty-three years ago)

he that lives by the sea, dies by the sea

― Alan (Alan), Monday, 27 January 2003 11:27 (twenty-three years ago)

Well said Nick. I love living by the sea and I miss it terribly when I'm away from it. I'm worried about the development prospects for Brighton beach now that most of the West Pier has given in to gravity, but hey, they can't take away my sunsets.

I hope I DO die by the sea :) (Not actually drowning though that would be horrid.)

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 27 January 2003 11:31 (twenty-three years ago)

I dunno, isn't drowning meant to be four minutes of agony followed by a moment of bliss as your lungs fill up and something? Like returning to the womb?

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Monday, 27 January 2003 11:33 (twenty-three years ago)

Well, having just read a description of a man being skinned alive I suppose there are worse things. But I'd rather have NO agony, please.

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 27 January 2003 11:35 (twenty-three years ago)

He who lives by the sea, dies by the sea.

― Pete (Pete), Monday, 27 January 2003 11:40 (twenty-three years ago)

:-( grammar be damned

― Alan (Alan), Monday, 27 January 2003 11:41 (twenty-three years ago)

"Drowning - Classic or Dud"

― robster (robster), Monday, 27 January 2003 11:41 (twenty-three years ago)

Ten minutes with the train. I nevah go to the sea.

― nathalie (nathalie), Monday, 27 January 2003 11:52 (twenty-three years ago)

i live two minutes away from the sea. i used to give it for granted, but once i moved and lived away from it in interior cities, i felt the need to go to the sea every once in a while. somehow i found it relaxing. i remember how i could smell it even when i was 50 or more kilometers away from it.
now i live by the sea again, and i love it.

― joan vich (joan vich), Monday, 27 January 2003 12:39 (twenty-three years ago)

Tell me more ahout your asylum seekers, Eugene. Where are they from? What are they doing to milk the system?

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 27 January 2003 13:11 (twenty-three years ago)

He who lives by the sea, dies by the sea.

― Aimless, Monday, 27 January 2003 14:54 (twenty-three years ago)

I was just feeling sad about this just now. I live further from the sea than I ever have, and I think I can feel it. Even Manchester was nearish the sea.

― Graham (graham), Monday, 27 January 2003 14:59 (twenty-three years ago)

http://neutralmilkhotel.net/nmh5.jpg

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 27 January 2003 15:04 (twenty-three years ago)

sometimes i think it would be nice. lincolnshire perhaps...

The problem with Lincolnshire is that because it's so flat, most of the time all you see when you stand on the shore is a vast plain of marsh or mud with a little sliver of water on the horizon.

Much better to live somewhere like Edinburgh, where you can often look down the street and see the firth in the distance.

― caitlin (caitlin), Monday, 27 January 2003 15:06 (twenty-three years ago)

Also I heard the documentary on R4 about the 1953 floods, much of the Lincolnshire coast ended up under water. where there are cliffs they are crumbling into the sea. Far too flat.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 27 January 2003 15:10 (twenty-three years ago)

I live further from the sea than I ever have, and I think I can feel it

I'll walk past your house in the middle of the night and make seagull noises through the window if you like, Graham.

― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 27 January 2003 15:12 (twenty-three years ago)

wait, lincolnshire is flat???

http://www.norfolkwindmills.com/images/thewash4.jpg

― gareth (gareth), Monday, 27 January 2003 15:16 (twenty-three years ago)

oh wait, theres no sea there, i am facing the wrong way.

here is some different sea...

http://www.norfolkwindmills.com/images/connecticut.jpg

― gareth (gareth), Monday, 27 January 2003 15:17 (twenty-three years ago)

wait, the sea is flat?

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 27 January 2003 15:19 (twenty-three years ago)

Sea, no. Ocean, yes (Bay of Funday and Gulf of St Lawrence).

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Monday, 27 January 2003 15:21 (twenty-three years ago)

I live in Southend-on-Sea

ha, so do i.

― g-kit (g-kit), Monday, 27 January 2003 15:43 (twenty-three years ago)

Also I heard the documentary on R4 about the 1953 floods, much of the Lincolnshire coast ended up under water. where there are cliffs they are crumbling into the sea. Far too flat.

No cliffs at all in Lincolnshire; the entire coast is beach or marsh. The nearest cliffs are East Yorkshire, or north Norfolk.

― caitlin (caitlin), Monday, 27 January 2003 15:45 (twenty-three years ago)

I stand corrected. I was thinking boulder clay and you have placed it.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 27 January 2003 15:48 (twenty-three years ago)

don't go to the beach enough, but i have a glorious view of the harbour from my bay wondows and balcony.

― di smith (lucylurex), Monday, 27 January 2003 23:11 (twenty-three years ago)

No and it makes me sad.

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Monday, 27 January 2003 23:12 (twenty-three years ago)

two months pass...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2894981.stm

A huge fire has engulfed one of the remaining sections of the West Pier in Brighton.

Oh no! FIRE! OH NO! Bah there'll be even less of the pretty ruin left after this, and it'll be all charred. Faded glamour goes up in smoke.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Friday, 28 March 2003 11:58 (twenty-three years ago)

Come on Archel, where are you? Can you see the smoke from work?

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Friday, 28 March 2003 12:25 (twenty-three years ago)

nine years pass...

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/818963/achill.jpg

― pet tommy & the barkhaters (darraghmac), Thursday, 31 May 2012 23:16 (fourteen years ago)

seven years pass...

what's really good, sea people

― j., Saturday, 29 June 2019 18:15 (six years ago)

cockles and mussels
alive alive ohhh

― calzino, Saturday, 29 June 2019 18:17 (six years ago)

when i was little and my dad read me some of "20000 leagues under the sea" i thought capt nemo's submrine was called the NAUGHTINESS

― mark s, Saturday, 29 June 2019 18:18 (six years ago)

I live by the sea. I can see the waters of the Burrard Inlet out my window. I do take it for granted and don't go to the beach enough

― VAR me to the end of yawn (jim in vancouver), Saturday, 29 June 2019 18:21 (six years ago)

im from an island off the west coast of an island nation and all of my dads people have been fishermen since time immemorial and i miss the sea more than p much anything tbh

― godfellaz (darraghmac), Saturday, 29 June 2019 19:18 (six years ago)

which island?

― mark s, Saturday, 29 June 2019 19:21 (six years ago)

my family went on holiday to inishbofin when i was 12 is why i'm asking

― mark s, Saturday, 29 June 2019 19:22 (six years ago)

the biggest one

we have a bridge since 190x so the Aran lads would always take the piss

― godfellaz (darraghmac), Saturday, 29 June 2019 19:30 (six years ago)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tory_Island

― mark s, Saturday, 29 June 2019 19:34 (six years ago)

we have a bridge since 190x

jesus wept, the local lad is but poorly informed.

A bridge was first completed here in 1887, replaced by another structure in 1949, and subsequently replaced with the current bridge which was completed in 2008.

― A is for (Aimless), Saturday, 29 June 2019 20:35 (six years ago)

I really miss living by the sea but take some comfort in the fact that where I live will be an island again soon

― shhh / let peaceful like things (wins), Saturday, 29 June 2019 20:42 (six years ago)

tbf aimless i wasnt around for any but the latest completion

― godfellaz (darraghmac), Saturday, 29 June 2019 20:55 (six years ago)

had you then no schools, no revered elders, no authorities upon your shared heritage? a pity, if tis true, and you, the pitiable stubbed end of a proud ancestry.

― A is for (Aimless), Sunday, 30 June 2019 02:25 (six years ago)

i missed school the day we covered revering our elders, and our authorities were underfunded as a result of the rates grab of 77

it was all a result of what the brits done on us, of course

― damarraghcas.jpg (darraghmac), Monday, 1 July 2019 22:32 (six years ago)

those damn brits have so much to answer for. they mucked up India, too, as I hear it

― A is for (Aimless), Monday, 1 July 2019 23:20 (six years ago)

india and everyone else can get in fucking line

― damarraghcas.jpg (darraghmac), Monday, 1 July 2019 23:29 (six years ago)

I think Wales gets the post position

― A is for (Aimless), Monday, 1 July 2019 23:39 (six years ago)

On the island of Great Britain the furthest you can ever be from the sea is 70 miles - which, in US terms, is diddley squat (also a US term I believe).

― Orpheus Knutt (Tom D.), Monday, 1 July 2019 23:45 (six years ago)

the brits! xp

― damarraghcas.jpg (darraghmac), Monday, 1 July 2019 23:45 (six years ago)

(xp) The Welsh are the Brits, of course.

― Orpheus Knutt (Tom D.), Monday, 1 July 2019 23:46 (six years ago)

Ah!

― Orpheus Knutt (Tom D.), Monday, 1 July 2019 23:47 (six years ago)

For the last fifteen years, I've lived a short walk from a seven-mile beach with a great tidal range. I walk my dogs there every day, across the dunes and down to the beach. People exercise racehorses there in the mornings, and sometimes at weekends there are sand yachts and kite surfers. In the winter we have geese, and in the summer we have nesting terns.
The Irish Sea is pretty tame, though, as seas go, and my friends from the Atlantic side of the island laugh at our sea. But then, I don't worry about being dragged off by a massive wave during bad weather, so there's that.

― trishyb, Monday, 1 July 2019 23:56 (six years ago)

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