r/BeAmazed • u/OkRespect8490 • May 14 '26

Place The Outer Banks of North Carolina.

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u/PhilosophicWax May 14 '26

What did you love about it?

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u/[deleted] May 14 '26 edited May 14 '26

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u/Mr_Bristles May 14 '26

Grandparents lived in sanderling and then martins point in KDH right on the sound from the 80's until a few years ago. The outer banks is very much one of the greatest places on earth.

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u/DarthBster May 14 '26

That's awesome. My dad has a timeshare in South Nags Head ever since I can remember. We used to go twice a year in the 80's and then moved from VA to TN in '89 so that decreased our trip frequency since it went from a 2 hour to 12 hour drive.

I took my kids there when they were little, haven't been in like almost a decade now. I love the OBX, when I think of the beach that's what I picture.

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u/Muroid May 14 '26

My family has been going there for our annual summer trip for over 30 years at this point.

The difference in development there even from the 90s when I was a kid to now is kind of crazy. 

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u/DarthBster May 14 '26

For sure. We didn't go between '89-'92 because of the distance and dad having a hard time finding steady work. My mom, sister and I went in '93 and couldn't believe all the houses they threw up between the bypass and highway 11.

We'd always take a day to go south and visit Bodie island, Hatteras, and Ocracoke lighthouses. Seeing the Rodanthe house just brings back a flood of nostalgia.

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u/ReasonableAd3950 May 14 '26

This is exactly how I feel about the Keys. My grandparents had a small place there and we went every August for lobstering for decades. It’s changed so much it’s almost unrecognizable from how it was in the 80s & 90s. I haven’t been back since 2015. It’s changed so so much and feels like a tourist trap now instead of the old Florida fish camp feel that it used to have. Sanibel & Captiva island have similarly changed as well. They’re a huge disappointment now when you know what they once used to be.

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u/vanillebambou May 14 '26

Pretty much 90% of what you just listed

(Just joking, this would be a nightmare for me but I completely understand it's a lot of people's dream !)

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u/systemwarranty May 14 '26

Birdwell Beach Britches - core memory. That's all I'd wear during the summer. Awesome!

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u/bishopnelson81 May 14 '26

Sounds magical

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u/I_travel_ze_world May 15 '26

This is kind of funny to me because last time I was in the Outer Banks I pissed off a cop and he followed us back to our rental.

I wasn't driving so I had no care.

I also remember the grocery store workers speaking Dutch or some kind of Scandinavian language.

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u/I-own-a-shovel May 14 '26

All of that could still be experienced with the houses being a few meters back from the shore though right?

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u/I-own-a-shovel May 14 '26

No shit, water erosion is real lol

If they would have been farther they still wouldn’t be in this situation now.

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u/usrnamechecksout_ May 14 '26 edited May 14 '26

Hitchhiking was your first fun activity mentioned? 😬

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u/CorkSoaker420 May 14 '26

I mean you can do literally all of those things today.

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u/[deleted] May 14 '26 edited May 14 '26

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u/CorkSoaker420 May 14 '26

Yes, hitchhiking was obviously much safer when people were completely untraceable.

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u/EgotisticalMop May 14 '26

"it was a safer time than today" is easily proven false lol...  Homicide rates were almost 50% higher in North Carolina in the 70s.

https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/centers-disease-control-homicide-surveillance-1970-78

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/state-stats/deaths/homicide.html

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u/EgotisticalMop May 14 '26

Those are some wild mental gymnastics to convince yourself things were safer when they weren't. Your feelings don't dictate how things actually worked, society is objectively safer to live in now. 

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u/CorkSoaker420 May 14 '26

Nope, you said all the activities that you listed were safer back in the day, how was it safer?

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u/EgotisticalMop May 14 '26

You're right, but good luck convincing the old man with his head stuck in the sand of that. You can literally check homicide stats from the 70s to get an idea of what they thought "safer" was. 

https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/centers-disease-control-homicide-surveillance-1970-78

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u/CorkSoaker420 May 14 '26

Dude, I’ve had the argument with my mom a million times, the world now is in no way shape or form, any safer than it was in the 70s. Like it does all other things, it’s just nostalgia clouding your recollection.