{"id":764,"date":"2019-06-18T21:49:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-18T21:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/preprod.realtrends.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/18\/best-beach-towns-to-live-in\/"},"modified":"2025-03-13T02:07:42","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T02:07:42","slug":"best-beach-towns-to-live-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preprod.realtrends.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/18\/best-beach-towns-to-live-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Beach Towns to Live In"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Best Beach Towns to Live In<\/h2>\n<p>With summer approaching and vast numbers of Americans taking to the water, the personal-finance website WalletHub took a close look at <a href=\"https:\/\/wallethub.com\/edu\/best-beach-towns-to-live-in\/36567\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/wallethub.com\/edu\/best-beach-towns-to-live-in\/36567\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1560956641886000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHy__Hjy-sDAV1wdG6XPYfzQ3jWmw\">2019&#8217;s Best Beach Towns to Live in.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>To determine the most livable <a href=\"coldwell-banker-residential-brokerage-strengthens\/\">beachside<\/a> communities, WalletHub compared 192 cities across 62 key metrics. 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