Though I don’t find myself close to the coast very often, I do enjoy it most during the colder months for the very same reason. Jesus prayed not that we should be taken out of the world, but that God would keep us from evil through sanctification . . . that we would be not of the world as Jesus himself was not of the world. Part of that sanctification is observed through that conscious choice of physical separation from locations where unnecessary temptation and distractions are common.
But on the other side of the coin I am challenged by folks like Ray Comfort who spread the Gospel fearlessly in the midst of indecent locatoins. They are overcomers, Christians strong in spirit, self-disciplined, with an inner fervor for truth. Like Jesus. And yet, Jesus, as human, needed times of rest away from distractions, and so thus we see in Him the perfect balance of “being in the world, yet not of it.” Hear ye Him.