There are a lot of folks I know in PA & NJ who think the casinos destroyed Atlantic City. I grew up in the Phila. area and remember as a kid when it was a real beach town with a boardwalk that didn’t have casinos – they had rides and all of that stuff you would expect on a boardwalk. Casinos brought stuff that Atlantic City didn’t have – prostitutes, crime, etc. and it drove out the homeowners – many, many houses were leveled to build those casinos.

When I go to the Jersey shore I usually end up in Ocean City or Cape May. That’s my 2 cents.