Battle of the Coasts

[JA]

Note that this only includes cities and towns within a few hours of the coast, where a day's trip to the beach would be reasonable (for example, Seattle counts as Pacific Coast and Washington DC as Atlantic Coast). The Pacific Coast also includes southern Alaska and Hawaii.

[JA]

Pacific is obviously the best, Great Lakes is obviously the worst.

No doubt the Pacific is beautiful, but I prefer the Great Lakes. They're the poor man's coast.