Of important note, Beverly Shores is also a town of artists. Beverly Shores has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Beverly Shores’s character.
A relatively large number of people in Beverly Shores telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 30.73% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.
Another notable thing is that Beverly Shores is a major vacation destination. Much of the town’s population is seasonal: many people own second homes and only live there part-time, during the vacation season. The effect on the local economy is that many of the businesses are dependent on tourist dollars, and may operate only during the high season. As the vacation season ends, Beverly Shores’s population drops significantly, such that year-round residents will notice that the city is a much quieter place to live.
In addition, Beverly Shores is home to many people who could be described as "urban sophisticates", which are people who are not only wealthy and employed in professional occupations, but highly educated to boot. Urban sophisticates have urbane tastes - whether they reside in a big or small city, a suburb, or a little town. Urban sophisticates support bookstores, quality clothing stores, enjoy luxury travel, and in big cities, they are truly the patrons of the arts, attending and supporting institutions such as opera, symphony, ballet, and theatre.
Because of many things, Beverly Shores is a very good place for families to consider. With an enviable combination of good schools, low crime, college-educated neighbors who tend to support education because of their own experiences, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family properties, Beverly Shores really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Beverly Shores perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic nightlife, it will be far from your cup of tea. But overall this is a solid community, with many things to recommend it as a family-friendly place to live.
It is a fairly quiet town because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Beverly Shores has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Beverly Shores has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Beverly Shores than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Beverly Shores may be for you.
In Beverly Shores, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 34.40 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average. One bright side is that local public transit is widely used, so it may be an option to avoid the headache of driving in the heavy traffic by leaving the car at home and taking transit.
In Beverly Shores, a lot of people use the train to get to work every day though Beverly Shores is a relatively small town. Those that ride the train are primarily traveling out of town to good jobs in other cities.
