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For all the New York residents who might want to sound like a local while looking at the shore's over priced McMansions - and some nice houses too:

-The town of Avon (by-the-Sea) is pronounced with a soft "A", as in Aah-Von. Not Avon, with a hard "A" like the cosmetics company.

-People who live at "the shore" year round do not call it the shore. They call the coastal area, where the sand meets the water, "the beach."

-McCloone's Rum Runner in Sea Bright has a nice view and dull, bland food.

-Beach bars don't have velvet ropes.