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Beach House Spectacular: Long Island Long Since Past?

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Sorry, twenty-somethings: The Hamptons and Fire Island don't want you any more. No, according to a recent New York Times article, there aren't nearly as many group shares (houses where tons of young folk crash for a summer) as there were twenty years ago. Many of those houses have been fixed up, turned into cash cow rentals for families, or purchased. Unsurprisingly, those landlords aren't interested in having a bunch of drunk kids on their property if they can get less problematic tenants instead.

On the flip side, those young cosmopolitan whippersnappers are indifferent to the Hamptons. Quoth one hipsterette:

"If someone is like, 'I'm going to the Hamptons for the weekend,' " she said, "I'm like, 'You are so generic.' "

Snap, yo!

The article points out that for the several hundred dollars it takes to spend a weekend in the Hamptons, many prefer to go someone completely unassociated with Long Island (like Miami) or stay in the city and drink on their roof. Bummer for Martha Stewart. She'll have to look for a young buck to Sugar Mama during the cooler months, now, instead of easily luring one with pool access.

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