Re: I do not believe how cold this spring is.
And if the oceans rise, so be it, every coastal city is kinda built in a semi-temporary fashion. They know that at any moment, the whole city could get wiped out by a storm. They are willing to take the chance of getting a hotel destroyed every 20 years, because it makes so much money to build it right next to the ocean.
So moving the cost back a few miles will prob not be a big deal, when the seas rise, and a big storm wipes out a barrier Island city, they should just move the city back to the main land, and let the barrier island become a sand bar.
I lived is Salisbury, MD which is 30 miles west of the ocean. and they were 30 ft above sea level, so that may be ocean front one day.
And really there is not much between Salisbury and Ocean City. You live near the Sea, and this is the inherent nature of it, nothing is permenant near the sea.