Seaside

Originally a collection of summer homes, Seaside is now an eclectic mix of older bungalows and newer mansions. Prices are high, because this is where the wealthy come to play and enjoy the ocean breeze.

Demographics

Seaside is a playground for the rich, although it empties out when the weather is bad because many of its residents are only here part-time.

Points of interest

Most people don’t know that the richest man in the city doesn’t live in Greenvine or Hillvale, but in a dilapidated yet still grand mansion on a bluff overlooking the beach at Seaside. Zachary Emmersmith made his fortune building bridges overseas in the last century. Now more than 100 years old, he rarely ventures outside a massive greenhouse full of orchids. But his business holdings are so vast it’s said no one knows exactly what Emmersmith owns. But his two daughters are spending his fortune as fast as they can in the city’s nightclubs and underground casinos.
The Seaside beaches are mostly full of well-to-do families frolicking in the surf and starlets surfing or sunning themselves, but the beach hasn’t been quiet lately. The Coast Guard has blamed six swimmers’ deaths recently on a vicious riptide near Queens Quay, a section of beach popular with the city’s rich and famous. Only one body later washed ashore, and it was covered with unusually large sucker wounds

Type

Neighbourhood

Location under

Northport