The Jersey shore has plenty of other drinking, gambling, amusement park, boardwalk, greasy fries and pizza, game arcade and dive bar towns, especially Wildwood.
Cape May started out at a Christian retreat and has always been a very quiet town, with its oldest part featuring dozens of beautiful Victorian rooming houses in the “gingerbread” style. Its small promenade has things like ice cream or candy shops and bike rental, not bars or nightclubs. Its Sunset Beach plays the National Anthem at a flag lowering ceremony every evening at dusk.
Families go there for the lack of anything to do other than enjoy one’s children or spouse, the nature trail, and the quiet atmosphere. It’s entirely right to try to hold onto its historic ethos.
Wildwood = South Philly in a shoebox