Lavallette is a shore town that fills up to about 30k people in the summer. In the winter it’s about 3k people who are mostly inbreds and descendents of inbreds who never venture off their island, except to stock up at Costco. Sort of a beach for those that escaped the Pine Barrens.
My family has been spending summers in Lavallette since 1955. I’ve watched the place go from a really relaxed, blue collar beach town of small bungalows, motels, mom and pop bars and restaurants and shops, to an overbuilt monstrosity packed with shoddily constructed Mcmansions and fast food franchises. There are still isolated pockets of the old charm, but they’re rapidly disappearing.