Okay no Chicago is not a coastal city. When I moved up to the Midwest (currently in iowa) and I heard someone say "let's go to the beach" and they meant TO A LAKE I about died. The beach is Galveston, corpus Christi, Miami, etc. Beaches are where the land touches THE OCEAN. not a lake!! I will die on this hill!!!! Midwesterners just want to pretend like their states aren't boring as fuck. Be happy with your great lakes and stop calling them beaches! They're lake shores!
If you say beach and you mean to include lake shores then you're admitting your state is boring and also you're wrong bc nobody thinks "beach" and by *default* includes lake superior or wtv
You wish your beaches had this kind of view
Girl, the only Beach National Park is along Lake Michigan, Her Name? Indiana DUNES National Park and she is in the Chicagoland area!
not the point at all but portland is not a coastal city at all
Yeah but Portlanders are considered Coastal Elites so it's a Coastal City in Spirit
coastal? no. elites? absolutely
Google being wrong once again
I don't know, San Francisco seems pretty oceanic to me
if you're in a state that borders the ocean you can't call a lake a beach BUT if you're in a state with huge lakes and no oceans you can absolutely call a big enough lake shore a beach. some lake shores are very very beach like
Okay but Buffalo NY has Beaches too
As the Great Lakes are basically inland freshwater seas, they get a pass on the beach thing. Other lakes have to call their stuff lakeshores.
Which of these is Lake Michigan and Which is Lake Kentucky?
And more importantly which looks nicer to spend an afternoon?
im assuming Lake Kentucky is on the left because the trees are nicer
How the fuck did you guess that based off of the trees?
regional stereotypes, also ive been to Lake Kentucky (i think its actually Kentucky Lake, unless theres 2 places that are lakes named after Kentucky)
It is technically Kentucky Lake but literally everyone calls it Lake Kentucky because that sounds better. But more importantly what are the fuck stereotypes about the trees in Kentucky
I think it's just literally that Kentucky has pretty lush forests (tennessee does as well)
I do love the lush forests of Kentucky. I know Land Between the lakes is on the opposite side of KY as the Appalachians but hot take
The Appalachian Forests are just as good and beautiful as the forests of the Pacific Northwest
Grabbing these tags from @hello-eeveev on an earlier version of this post
Okay here you go, now at the same scale!
Now tell me which one is coastal again
