# Is there anything that can make swimming in New England beaches truly comfortable?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [April 4, 2013, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anything-that-can-make-swimming-in-new-england-beaches-truly-comfortable/654872 "2013-04-04T23:13:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2013, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anything-that-can-make-swimming-in-new-england-beaches-truly-comfortable/654872/41 "2013-04-07T01:40:03Z")

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> [@Shagnasty](#):
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> I truly do love the ocean but not the beaches themselves. That is just the entrance ramp to the fun although I seem to be one of the few people that view it that way around here.

I think you are perfectly sensible - I am pretty much the same way. I just can not understand laying out on a beach surrounded by jackasses and sweating, getting sand everywhere and then having to figure out how to change clothing or drive home on leather seats without getting them screwed up with salt and sand.

I have decided the only way I will enjoy swimming in the ocean from now on is living in a beach house, or from a personally owned/rented boat.

Don’t get me wrong, I adore swimming, diving, or even just being on the water in a boat. There is nothing better than being 20 feet underwater shadowing some tasty looking crustacean along the bottom ‘shopping’ for supper in warm water. But as i said, it is the getting between home and crustacean that is the problem.

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**Author:** ![Boozahol\_Squid\_P.I](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d9b06d/32.png) [@Boozahol\_Squid\_P.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boozahol_Squid_P.I)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2013, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anything-that-can-make-swimming-in-new-england-beaches-truly-comfortable/654872/42 "2013-04-08T15:44:39Z")

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> [@Shagnasty](#):
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> The thing is that I have done that and the only thing I got out of it was bitterness about life and the futility of man against nature.

> [@elfkin477](#):
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> Geez, you’re never going to be a real New Englander with this attitude, **Shagnasty**.

I don’t know. Sounds like he’s got a good start.

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