I would love to live near the coast! Mornings would be so refreshing and would actually make me get out of bed!

My home is 6-7 hours away from the coast....
But I go there whenever I can.
I would live there because of;
- The sun, sand and spirit
- Cool and fresh water
- Soft sand


At the beach, life’s different.
Time doesn’t move,
Waves crash the ocean front,
Kissing my feet.
Sea glass glistens in the sun,
The warm air dances around me
Giving a new start to the world.
The sand tingles under my feet
Like being tickled by love.
Laying on the beach shore,
Tanning the day away.
The tans may fade,
But memories
Never do.

The ever changing ocean for swims,play,walks and people watching.Our life is a holiday.

I consider myself lucky to live and work on the coast.

My town is nestled in the midst of the Eurobodalla (Aboriginal for Land of Many Waters). In the 100km of coast that makes up the Eurobodalla Shire there are more than 100 separate beaches/bays and countless lakes, rivers and creeks. This means on any given day, even in peak holiday season, you can find your own secluded spots and have the honour of being the first footprints in the sand for the day.

It is so beautiful that the locals are almost permanently joyous.

Spoilt for choices each day; do I swim, kayak, bushwalk, fish, surf or just enjoy the view at one of the many eateries in the area serving the freshest, cleanest seafood you are ever likely to enjoy.

The attached pic is just my little slice of the Eurobodalla (Mossy Point)...jealous yet? Come visit, you'll never want to leave!

Living in Tassie, living on the coast is almost the only option. We are 3 minutes walk to the sand, which is great because when we swim we almost always want to hop straight into a hot shower. :) We bought the house for it's location, and it's very ugly, but we're slowly making it more friendly.

I recently moved to a house where the walk to the beach is 2 min, it's fabulous because before I wouldn't have made the effort to go down and now I can enjoy the sun and the cool water during the summer days!

We live one house away from the beach in Busselton. Better protection from the elements (particularly during storms). The BEST thing though is when all the tourists go home and the locals regain control of our town!

I love the ocean, it soothes, inspires wonder, encourages playfulness, brings a sense of well being and calm, and energises. My beach is spectacular all year round. The best thing about living near the coast in summer is the sea breeze on a hot day!!

I love hearing the sound of the waves at night, while I'm in my back garden, on my patio, etc. I love the breezes in summer on hot days and I love lying on the beach looking at the beautiful colours of the ocean against the whitest sand and blue skies.

Apparently it was 39 degrees in Perth today. At my beachside home it was a pleasant breezy day. Not too hot at all. I love living on the coast for all the reasons mentioned above.

The best part is hearing the ocean, and I love, when the wind is right, being able to sit on my back verandah and smell the ocean while having my morning coffee. Walking the dog down to the beach is also great fun and great exercise.

Strangely enough as someone who spent their very early years in the Pacific Islands...I would'nt even buy a raffle ticket to win a house near the coast now. The hills are safer and quieter and maybe cleaner too...fresh air, no pollution, clean water and home grown food...what more?

When I was a little girl growing up in the outer Sydney Western Suburbs,I always said I wanted to one day live in a house that I could see mountains and ocean,and my mum would say I should keep on dreaming that dream and maybe it would happen. Well, it did! Living an hour from Sydney on the south coast is like a holiday destination every day.I am lucky to work from home too.My husband an I live perched on a low rise of a mountain and the beach is 5km down the road.To sit on the verandah at night in the fresh air and the quiet whilst listening to frogs and crickets and other wildlife, and being able to gaze out to an ocean of quicksilver under a full moon is sheer magic.The fresh breeze off the ocean that whips around the escarpment and predictably fills our house even on a hot summers day is delicious.So too is the mountain mist that creeps around and envelopes the house in a pine scented winter wonderland in the colder desolate months when the coast is also desolate but all the more beautiful.Every local beach and sea pool is a different and wonderful experience.Coastal living is slower.People say hello in passing whilst out enjoying their walk/run/cycle/swim any time of day.There really isn't anything like living on the coast.We miss nothing from our old Sydney life,but are close enough to zip up and get a city fix.I have found my own paradise! It's a work in progress keeping an old house maintained on the coast,but I wouldn't have it any other way.

@galaboutown...sounds wonderful. I have the same experiences only in the hills surrounded by freshwater rivers, creeks and streams. We're really lucky...and ditto, its worth the maintenance of an old house. If I wanted a 'city fix' I'd have to travel for many hours. Online shopping is far less tiring and there's a semi city fix only 150km away in the nearest rural city. Guess the time you would spend negotiating the traffic I would spend driving down an almost (by comparison) deserted inland highway

Hey ladyrob1! I do have a soft spot for the country too.We had relatives we used to visit on the land, and also down near Albury.Country has its own charm and appeal.We have friends we visit in a blink and miss it town in far northern nsw.They live in a late 1800s farm house nestled amongst mountains and a quiet that is so unusually peaceful.Husband is also a country boy from an inland town of less than 800 people that is like the land that time forgot.Online shopping has made it less isolating for people.I detest shopping malls and centres anyway.Fortunately we have good growers markets and local providores and access to country areas that take me the same amount of time to reach as it did to battle traffic to get to work in Sydney.I have yet to follow in my grandmothers' footsteps and attempt a vege garden.They lived on a farm and they grew and made everything! We are so lucky to live just about anywhere in this still great country,be it country or coast.:)

@ gladaboutown I am a city kid originally then spent my mid teenage years in Europe..(did not like that). Before that I lived on Nauru Island with my parents just after the end of WWII
( that's telling isn'r it!).. Your friend's 1800 farm house sounds lovely. My paternal Grandparents had a lovely old home at Beechworth in Victoria and before that at Woodend and I loved being at them both...guess I'm a country kid at heart but wqually happy in the Pacific. Yes we are luck to have such choices given what we see on the news. Hope we continue to have our country freedom.....bit of a scary thought that we may not always be safe in the cities....but there's always places like Charleville and White Cliffs and underground dwellings in Queensland...pretty remote.
The fresh produce is the BEST! Good that the farmers travel to the city aras to sell their wares...we'll be needing them more and more. I live in a fruit and veg growing area with wineries, piggeries, Emu farms, sheep etc etc and all sorts of othe wonderful "down to earth" industries. Close to home I have the Strawberry Fields where one can pick their own...YUM, and a Bertry Farm that makes their own jams and sauces...and a Jam Factory. I wondered why I came her ages ago when it was not as interesting and there were lots of yobbos...but it is rathetr villagey now and we have visitors galore. I am lucky. Missing the beach, but hey, can't have it all! One lady wrote that she has barracudas in the canal at the end of their canal developement...and sharks...No thanks.

There is nothing better for me then living by the ocean. It can be so tranquil, fresh and clean, calm, sunny and amazing one day and blowing a gale with incredibly rough seas the next. It's what I love the most, so changeable, I find it exciting.

There is better rainfall in drought times. That can lead to more jobs, in rural areas. we are in unspoiled South Gippsland, Vic. We chose a town where we were hoping our family would come back to visit alot when they were grown, due to all the natural attractions around here.