Best beaches? New York City vs Chicago vs San Francisco vs Boston (compared, place)
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chicago beaches are so much cleaner then new york city beaches. Plus in order to go to a beach in new york you have to go to long island which isnt even on the peice of land where new york city is. In that case i voted for chicago just because they are cleaner and you can actualy go to a beach in downtown and look the other way and you can see a huge skyscraper just across lake shore drive.
Long island is the same piece of land that Brooklyn and Queens are on (both of which also have beaches)
Two guys that look nothing alike, ones your typical blue collar guy who drives a pickup truck, the other brother is a Hipster who gets pissed at his brother for driving that gas guzzling thing
seriously though google image lake calhoun
But to stay on topic, i would honestly love a SF beach on a sunny summer day. I hear the waves there are pretty big. The Chicago setting is nice but the water is too calm. New York and Boston beach's are also pretty nice plus the water is warm i hear
Agreed. Though if someone is looking for an urban beach, I think Chicago may even beat out Miami when it comes to summer time. Chicago looks like an amazing spot in the summer.
You think so? Miami Beach is pretty urban. Are you talking about in terms of amenities literally near the water? I think Miami Beach is bested by only Santa Monica and other SoCal cities.
Two guys that look nothing alike, ones your typical blue collar guy who drives a pickup truck, the other brother is a Hipster who gets pissed at his brother for driving that gas guzzling thing
seriously though google image lake calhoun
But to stay on topic, i would honestly love a SF beach on a sunny summer day. I hear the waves there are pretty big. The Chicago setting is nice but the water is too calm. New York and Boston beach's are also pretty nice plus the water is warm i hear
A sunny summer day in SF = 50's and windy by the ocean. You might get something decent around September though.
[quote=jorge112597;22819505][quote=Chicago60614;22815185]Water temps are normally in the 70's or so
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water temps are not in the 70
i doubt that
The rise is pretty amazing actually once spring hits. Early May is around 40 degrees, early June is around 47 degrees, early July is around 60 degrees, early August hits the low 70s, and then it stays that way until October when it starts sliding back into the 60's.
In the fall we can get winds that drive the waves upwards of 20+ feet. We had that a few times this past fall. The waves were incredible, especially for not being on the ocean. People get arrested every once in awhile for surfing the waves around Chicago, but if you're going to surf lake Michigan then Michigan and Indiana usually provide more opportunities. There are lots of youtube videos out there.
I don't consider a lakefront a true beach. Chicago should not be on the list. New York has great beaches and so does the Jersey Shore, our boardwalks are world famous.
I don't consider a lakefront a true beach. Chicago should not be on the list. New York has great beaches and so does the Jersey Shore, our boardwalks are world famous.
Just because you don't consider a lakefront a true beach means nothing to millions of people.
Chicago has swimable beaches immediately adjacent to Downtown - New York does not. And truly great beaches don't need boardwalks - that's what cheesy carnivals are for.
A sunny summer day in SF = 50's and windy by the ocean. You might get something decent around September though.
The summer at Ocean Beach can be foggy much of the time--but you can always drive a half hour north to Stinson Beach or down south to the beaches along Highway 1--where it can sunny and warmer in the 70s or occasionally even get into the 80s.
And the bright side is that you can get days in January and February where it's 65 degrees out and sunny at the beach--which you're not going to get in Chicago or New York or Boston. Yeah the water's too cold for people to swim outside of the warmest summer months and even then it''ll be too cold for most--but I grew up surfing and kayaking in Northern California, so cold water doesn't bother me as much... The bathtub warm water on the East Coast in the summer is a nice treat, but I'll always love the wild nature of the Northern California coast more...
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