Long Beach is the best. I tell everyone that.
There's definitely healing properties to being in proximity to the ocean and that breeze. There's something about that Caribbean climate and humidity.
I grew up near the sea in British Columbia and San Francisco, and lived in Malibu and Fiji for years. I get uncomfortable being too far inland.
Winter near the shore is cold. The wind kicks up a salty mist and elephant seals come to shore to trumpet and rut and birth their pups. Retired people put sweaters on their lap dogs and drag them down the street on retractable leashes in a nightly parade of doggy humiliation. Surfers don their wetsuits against the chill of storm waves and white sharks adjust their diets to include shrink-wrapped dude-snacks on fiberglass crackers.
If I'm going to live in Sydney, I want to live on Bondi Beach.
Growing up in California has completely made me the person that I am.
Sometimes the wind along the Pacific shore blows so hard it steals your breath before you can inhale it.
In L.A., it's very hard to have some kind of conscience of some style out there. The weather's too hot; there's no seasons.
I grew up in Marin County north of San Francisco, and in the 1950s and '60s it was a natural paradise.
I love how Hollywood still wants to perpetuate the myth that beaches in Southern California are warm at night.
I don't actually think I could be happy on one coast all year round. California is a sweeter lifestyle, but I need the energy of New York to keep me on my toes.
I was born and brought up in Vizag 'til 12th Class.
I'm a coastal person. I grew up in Long Island and lived in San Diego. I felt landlocked in Pittsburgh. Psychically, it just wasn't the place for me.
I grew up in Newquay and lived close to the ocean for a few years in New Zealand, too. I'm instinctively happy in those surroundings.
I know everywhere is cool and all, but, at least for me, I was lucky enough to be in southern California. I feel lucky to be from there... I feel like it taught me how to be polite.
The North Sea can be a pretty violent place.
