Living on the Pacific Ocean

Our new city may be Long Beach, home to Long Beach State University, a rival of my alma mater; home to America's second most prestigious Indycar race; and home to America's second largest port sending $140 billion dollars worth of goods onshore, but we don't really live on the beach.

Our proximity to the beach can be illustrated thus...

This is a building seen from our shared balcony:



Here is is again, straight on, to get an idea how the other three-percent live:



And here's the back of it, with the sand visible:



A better name might be "Calm Beach", since a natural breaker puts the beach facing south, and the crash of the waves is nearly silent with a max height of four inches...