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re: 30A Beach Hate Trend...Is it just sour grapes?
Posted on 6/13/24 at 2:55 am to sidewalkside
Posted on 6/13/24 at 2:55 am to sidewalkside
From my experience the 30a area is mostly made up of wealthy Atlantans of Yankee and mid-Atlantic origin, along with wealthy retirees from around the south. There's also a smidgen of trust fund babies.
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Posted on 6/13/24 at 3:08 am to dallastiger55
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It's gotten too easy to spot a rich suburban mom in any big city in the south. Premium SUV with a 30a sticker, head to toe Lululemon and carrying a Stanley.
Yep. The same type that won't be voting in November.
Posted on 6/13/24 at 5:39 am to Epic Cajun
quote:this.
Seems like it’s mostly backlash against people acting super douchey about going there.
Who do you people hang around? I don’t know a single person who acts douchey about going on any vacation. Comments like this just scream inferiority complex.
jokes aside, i think you see the "douchey" stuff on here because it's become more upper middle class so there are hot chicks with fit guys instead of a bunch of waynes and beaus in their LSU PFGs.
Posted on 6/13/24 at 5:49 am to sidewalkside
The only place I really hear the word "trashy" is here but I have a few issues with 30A.
First, the lack of options on the beach is my biggest issue. If I am paying that kind of money, I don't want to load of up golf cart and drive to the beach. I want to walk it.
Second, I am not looking for nightlife or entertainment when I go to the beach so much of the allure is something I inherently try to avoid.
Lastly, it's the way people thin of and celebrate 30A as a status symbol. Dude, calkm your tits...it's still the redneck riveria. You're only paying Martha's Vineyard prices.
First, the lack of options on the beach is my biggest issue. If I am paying that kind of money, I don't want to load of up golf cart and drive to the beach. I want to walk it.
Second, I am not looking for nightlife or entertainment when I go to the beach so much of the allure is something I inherently try to avoid.
Lastly, it's the way people thin of and celebrate 30A as a status symbol. Dude, calkm your tits...it's still the redneck riveria. You're only paying Martha's Vineyard prices.
Posted on 6/13/24 at 6:08 am to Dragula
quote:to be fair, 30A is the Monte Carlo of Northwest Florida haha
Many speak of the 30A as if they are vacationing in Monte Carlo
Posted on 6/13/24 at 6:17 am to Worldly Bum
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but I here Tulum is nice.
Posted on 6/13/24 at 6:25 am to Kreg Jennings
Seems like a bunch envious folks in this thread. They trash 30A while packing 6 people in a Hampton Inn in Galveston.
Posted on 6/13/24 at 6:47 am to TDTOM
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They trash 30A while packing 6 people in a Hampton Inn in Galveston.
Thats really only the two places to enjoy the gulf shores beach. 30A or Galveston. Nowhere else...just those two.
Posted on 6/13/24 at 6:52 am to BottomlandBrew
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You can fly to Cancun and rent a house on the beach in Puerto Morelos for 1/2 the cost of 30A.
bullshite!
We're going on vacation in August and I just compared all of the costs and flying the 2 of us to Cancun and renting a house for a week is significantly more than what we're paying in Florida.
Posted on 6/13/24 at 7:08 am to WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot
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wut?
People DO move over the course of their lives baw.
Posted on 6/13/24 at 7:10 am to NatalbanyTigerFan
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We're going on vacation in August and I just compared all of the costs and flying the 2 of us to Cancun and renting a house for a week is significantly more than what we're paying in Florida.
$5,000 for three, airfare and accommodations to Hawaii just last month
It can most assuredly be done.
Posted on 6/13/24 at 7:32 am to LSUfan4444
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From my experience the 30a area is mostly made up of wealthy Atlantans of Yankee and mid-Atlantic origin, along with wealthy retirees from around the south
Throw DFW suburban Frisco and Southlake families too. If I took a shot every time I saw a 30a sticker on a Range Rover in a Costco parking lot id be drunk by the time I entered the building.
Posted on 6/13/24 at 7:35 am to TDTOM
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Seems like a bunch envious folks in this thread. They trash 30A while packing 6 people in a Hampton Inn in Galveston.
This is what people who have never traveled will say...It's the same people that say "New Orleans is the best city in the world".
It's not their fault, they don't know what they don't know....
Posted on 6/13/24 at 7:45 am to Dragula
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I do not care either, but many whom vacation there feel to need to bring it up at every opportunity like the atheists, crossfitters and, Vegans, etc. I have nice things and take my family on very nice vacations yet do not feel the need to put the stickers on my car to say "Look at me.....LOOK AT ME!!!"
Again, I have zero idea who you people are hanging out with but I know quite a few people who go to 30A yearly and none of them act like it is anything other than it is, a really nice spot to vacation on the gulf coast for families. Maybe I don’t perceive these comments as bragging, but others would. I guess I also don’t hang around with anyone who put stickers on their cars either
Posted on 6/13/24 at 7:47 am to Worldly Bum
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Posted on 6/13/24 at 7:47 am to TDTOM
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Seems like a bunch envious folks in this thread. They trash 30A while packing 6 people in a Hampton Inn in Galveston.
Exactly, any time I see the word pretentious, I think they just mean unaffordable to them.
Posted on 6/13/24 at 7:49 am to Dragula
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Seems like a bunch envious folks in this thread. They trash 30A while packing 6 people in a Hampton Inn in Galveston.
with a lot of the most popular 30A beaches you're setting up shoulder to shoulder with a bunch of idiots for a beach that is only slightly (if at all) better than lesser crowded areas.
But if playing putt-putt and going to Pineapple Willys is that important to you don't let that stop you.
The Atlantic side doesn't get enough love. You can sit in bathwater at home, don't need the Gulf for that.
Posted on 6/13/24 at 7:50 am to Epic Cajun
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Again, I have zero idea who you people are hanging out with but I know quite a few people who go to 30A yearly and none of them act like it is anything other than it is, a really nice spot to vacation on the gulf coast for families.
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what type of people brag about going to 30A?
Posted on 6/13/24 at 8:07 am to NatalbanyTigerFan
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You can fly to Cancun and rent a house on the beach in Puerto Morelos for 1/2 the cost of 30A.
bullshite!
We're going on vacation in August and I just compared all of the costs and flying the 2 of us to Cancun and renting a house for a week is significantly more than what we're paying in Florida.
Round trip airfare for two to Cancun is $1200 from my location. A house directly on the beach is ~$300/night in Puerto Morelos. For a few dollars more you can have breakfast and lunch made everyday for you. Restaurants, bars, and markets all within walking distance. Reef snorkeling right off the beach. You can't get near that price for a house directly on the beach along 30A during the summer. If you really want to go cheap, condos are only $75-90/night.
Posted on 6/13/24 at 8:10 am to Salmon
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what type of people brag about going to 30A?
Same people who feel the need to put stickers on their car?
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