I'm going to say Corpus Christi, Texas. It has a real waterfront with a downtown skyline right up against the bay(comparable to Long Beach skyline), an iconic bridge, real beach suburbs, local surf shops and beach culture. In the 80's a handful of waterfront high rise condos like you'd see in a downmarket part of Miami were built. It's got that feel.
But it's not that big and kind of poor and cheap.
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without knowing what some of these places look like, are Beaumont, TX;;
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Beaumont isn't on the coast. There are swamps and barrier islands before you reach the gulf. The closest beach is 30 miles away, or 15 miles away from Beaumont's twin city of Port Arthur.
You wouldn't want to live there, its' basically if you copy/pasted Gary, Indiana so it faced the gulf instead of lake michigan and replaced the US steel plant with the Motiva refinery and Sabine Pass LNG terminal. Basically every major oil pipeline in North America is like a big tree whose trunk terminates in that region, and there's a reason for that.
Not really beach-y once you get east of Cameron, because of the Delta.
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Florida's west coast north of Tampa;
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No beach between Clearwater and Carabelle. It's all salt marsh especially around the Suwanee river delta.
The area south of Tallahassee is neat though, from Carabelle to Apalachicola. The pine forest is wild and untamed and there's a place called Wakulla Springs which is exactly what it sounds like.
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Lake Ontario east of Rochester
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Never been there but do water temps ever get above 70 F?
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