Ah, I had a home with an ocean view for many years in S.Ca... You’re not telling me anything about beach cities in summer. They suck bad...Period!
Now if ya like people blocking your driveways, wall to wall people, crime, homeless, gridlocked traffic, and kinky sickos, you’ll love it.☺
Which town was your beach house in?
Try living on the boardwalk and spending your day there, and all day means just that, as often as you want to go back and sit there the routine repeats itself, until you tire of it and start with the serious night time partying.
Being able to see the beach doesn’t make you a part of the life there.
As far as disliking resort beach towns when they are really going, that is just weird unless someone just doesn’t like partying, the winter and the quiet times are a different kind of the pleasant life on the beach, but the real hell-raising and hard core partying is tourist season.