The novelty never wears off. My living room window (and indeed the rest of my flat) is about 50m from the Solent, with a clear and uninterrupted view across a common and the promenade.

I'm looking at the sea as I type this from my desk. The sun has just dipped below the horizon I think. There were greenish and blue bands in the sea earlier, but now it's all just soft blue, gradually fading into the sky blue, which then fades to a pale peach colour as the sunset ends.

In the summer, at the weekends, I can sit with my window open, and watch the little sail boats and the occasional yacht wander past as I enjoy the breeze. I have a kayak, but my partner and I have only been brave enough to use it in gentle rivers so far. This summer I'd like to walk it across the common and straight into the sea - I think that'd be nice.
When the weather is right I can hear the surf, but I live in a town that is otherwise a fucking hole, and often the only noise I can hear is twats racing their shitboxes down the long, wide, straight coastal roads which run between my front door and the common.

Eventually winter comes, and then the sea is slate grey to match the sky, and it's often rough and violent. When the wind comes directly off the sea it *screams*, sometimes all night, for nights on end, and my living room becomes genuinely almost unsuable. The sound is almost indescribable to anybody who hasn't experienced it, but to anybody who has they will immediately know what I mean. I basically live in my bedroom (which faces north) for much of the winter - the noise is less there, but still audible.
The weather is so much more dramatic when you don't have other buildings acting as wind breakers. When storms get really bad I find rainwater creeping in under the sash windows and leaving little pools and trickles on my kitchen floor. Sometimes the wind is so bad I can feel it, with all the windows closed - it;s just so strong it finds a way in, and you can feel it even when sat at the far end of the living room with everything closed.

So that's the downside, and it is a bad downside, but I've lived inland - in rural areas, cute little villages, council estates, suburbs, and city centres, and I think my current situation is my favourite. The sea just makes me feel good in some fundamental way.