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Originally Posted by MonkeyRonin
This is probably going to be a controversial opinion, but I think Ontario's combination of fine sand, warm water, hot summers, and sheer quantity of lakes makes it the best place for beaches in the country.
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I suspect it would only be controversial among people in BC who don't know anything about Ontario
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Originally Posted by MonkeyRonin
Vancouver is the best beach city though.
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Whereas this really is debatable. Surely Canada doesn't have any beach cities, because we don't have good swimming anywhere for a substantial part of the year. Sydney and Rio are beach cities. You have to go to the beach when you go there, but while New York has better beaches than any city in Canada, nobody would actually call it a "beach city." You can skip Coney Island without missing out.
In the UK the water is freezing like in Vancouver, so they don't call Blackpool or Brighton "beach towns/cities." They say "seaside" or "city by the sea." Beaches are about tanning and swimming, lots of brown flesh and splashing around. Like Cannes. British people have huts lined up along the front where they sip tea to keep warm. You're beside the sea at the seaside, but you're not in a beach town.
These distinctions are important. Like Walter Sobchak said, there are rules.