Best beach city on the East coast????

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Hi!

I need help finding a place close to the beach where there are also good hospitals. Any ideas?

I lived in Hampton, VA for a few years and I loved it, but traffic is a nightmare over there.

Anybody living in Charleston? North Myrtle Beach? Ocean Isle? Greenville? any other place on the east coast?

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Specializes in Neuro, Cardiology, ICU, Med/Surg.

Boston. :)

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Jamestown and Newport are very nice. It's very expensive except for the fresh seafood and I hope you love Dunkin Donuts.

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Specializes in Psych, LTC, Acute Care.

I love visting Myrtle Beach! My MIL lives in Charleston SC and the nursing jobs are very few and far between.

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Corpus cristie Tx great beaches not great pay but low cost of living

You have to like it hot though but nothing like tanning in feb

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Specializes in NICU Transport/NICU.

Wilmington, NC

New Smyrna Beach, FL

Melbourne Beach, FL

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Specializes in CCU,ICU,ER retired.

I don't know about jobs but I loved Jacksonville, Fla beaches white sand and just beautiful

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It all depends on if you like cold weather or hot summers as far as East Coast cities are concerned. Greenville, SC isn't an ocean area but nearly a mountainous area with snow.

I love the East Coast areas from New York down to Ocean City, MD with boardwalks and piers with rides, where you have been in VA., and following down to Boca Raton, Florida and Miami areas with beaches. The only problems with Florida is its heading into bankruptcy just like California and Nevada and New York....over-building and highest housing foreclosures.

The closer one is to the beach the higher cost of living, high traffic, too many summer vacationers bringing their high numbers of people, no unions as they are "Right to Work" states, lower pay, hot summers....got to have air conditioning everywhere, and hurricanes. Since we had an El Nino winter with over-abundance of snow, I foresee an over-abundance of hurricanes with 3-4 major ones hitting land at category 4 or 5!

Forget Charleston as the area has nothing unless you love cultural activities of the rich and famous. I don't know what would make a person stay overnight let alone live there unless that's one's lifestyle. Going down for a day once in a blue moon is all I would want. I still think of Hurricane Hugo 1989 at high tide category 5 that ripped them up and the places nearby, destroyed houses and sent boats into the cities including Mt. Pleasant, traveled into Sumter for destruction, came up through Interstate 26 to Columbia the capital 100 miles away, and cut its way through the mountains of Virginia and Tennessee and tornadoes into Pittsburgh, PA. It took 10 years to rebuild Charleston. They have their great hospital system, MUSC, but jobs would be hard to find. This just isn't a good job market right now.

Insurance in beach areas is being dropped on homes or so high priced it's making foreclosures worse. :redbeathe:):redbeathe

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Specializes in Psych ICU, addictions.

Corpus Christi was the best beach city I ever lived in...but like JesssicRN said, it can get hot. The winters are delicious (you can wear shorts nearly year-round) but from May-September, temperatures are regularly in the 90s and 100s...it does drop to 70-80 at night though.

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Specializes in Peri-op/Sub-Acute ANP.

Annapolis, MD. Tons of hospitals and med facilities within striking range.

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Specializes in COS-C, Risk Management.

I'm a Jacksonville, FL native, so I have a love-hate relationship with the city. Decent beaches, traffic not so horrible as further north, but pay rates suck and job openings are only for those with much experience.

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