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    thunderbaeAimée Lutkin
    6/30/16 9:55am

    The only reality TV show set in the Hamptons I want to see is Ina Garten's friends secretly talking shit about her in between luxurious yet simple meals prepared by Garten's underlings.

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      OliviaPJonesthunderbae
      6/30/16 10:09am

      Yesss would watch

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      Annie from the Grog Booththunderbae
      6/30/16 10:12am

      Sell this idea now so I can watch it ALL THE TIME.

      Except I’m pretty sure Ina never gets talked shit on, I see her as the shit talker of her group, “Did you see Martha yesterday....😁”...

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    PhyllisNeflerAimée Lutkin
    6/30/16 10:27am

    The existing tension in Montauk is usually between summer tourists from the city, extremely rich people who own homes they infrequently occupy, and regular people making a living.

    I think the real problem that most people have is the influx of the young, drunk folks (with money). There have always been the summer rich people, but they always sort of filtered in for the season but enjoyed town as it was. The issue now is, once they opened The Surf Lodge (I blame that place for all the evil that Montauk has to now suffer), and started turning the divey places into expensive and ‘exclusive’, it brought a hard-partying crowd of a different, entitled sort. My family has also been in Montauk for about 20 years now, and the difference in the bar crowd now is astonishing. My friend and I noticed it about...8 years ago (?) when all of a sudden we were the only two wearing cutoffs and flip flops (the usual uniform), and there were a ton of girls in high heels. I am obviously in the “get off my lawn” camp and I hate the ‘new’ crowd, so take this opinion with a grain of salt- but I am very happy that East Hampton is shutting this shit down. I will also be out there this weekend, hanging with my parents and avoiding town at all costs.

    TL;DR: I am an old who wants these idiots to go away.

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      kitteneyePhyllisNefler
      6/30/16 10:59am

      Yeah, Surf Lodge is horrific. Montauk makes me so sad these days. It used to be such a laid-back, cool place, and the only town in the Hamptons that I liked. I ended up going to Surf Lodge for a friend’s birthday weekend like two years ago, and I couldn’t figure out how people actually manage to stay there? Like how do you sleep...?

      Only time I go out there now is late March/April, so when places start to open but the season hasn’t started, so the crazies aren’t there yet.

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      thevoidlesscreaturePhyllisNefler
      6/30/16 11:00am

      I’m not from there but know enough that “...understandably horrifying possibility to people who barely tolerate the visitors keeping them economically afloat” is not the issue, it’s the TYPES of visitors that have changed and infuriate the locals. Montauk survived just fine without them. That sentence gave me a mini-rage stroke.

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    Stig-a-saw-us wrecks loves nuclear power.Aimée Lutkin
    6/30/16 9:56am

    The filming was mainly planned for Montauk, the last stop on the LIRR and one of the most beautiful beach towns in New York City.

    Montauk is a borough now?

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      HobbylobbyistStig-a-saw-us wrecks loves nuclear power.
      6/30/16 10:01am

      According to New Yorkers it is.

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      spotofluffStig-a-saw-us wrecks loves nuclear power.
      6/30/16 10:02am

      Yeah I did a double take on that one

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    Stig-a-saw-us wrecks loves nuclear power.Aimée Lutkin
    6/30/16 9:58am

    There is a show already about the area...

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      spotofluffStig-a-saw-us wrecks loves nuclear power.
      6/30/16 10:04am

      HE IS THE WORST

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      junwelloStig-a-saw-us wrecks loves nuclear power.
      6/30/16 10:16am

      Otherwise known as Let’s Work on Our American “R” Sounds

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    HobbylobbyistAimée Lutkin
    6/30/16 10:01am

    My dad grew up in the East Hamptons. People who don’t know think that means he was a rich kid. The people who come in for the summer are the rich ones, not necessarily the ones who are there year-round.

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      LibrarySchoolDropoutHobbylobbyist
      6/30/16 10:20am

      Yeah, when I tell people my husband is from Newport, RI they get an image in their head that is the exact opposite of how he actually grew up.

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      Oh MyLantaLibrarySchoolDropout
      6/30/16 10:47am

      exactly! I live in Newport and it’s funny how people totally get the wrong idea... There are definitely parallels between Montauk and Newport in terms of the types of crowds we get in the summer time and what it’s actually like in the “off” season.

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    teenytinycornteethAimée Lutkin
    6/30/16 10:12am

    I believe this same blowback happened when they tried to come here and do Real Housewives of Chicago. Every restaurant and boutique they wanted to film it was like “no thanks”. I don’t know if they even ended up filming anything.

    That being said, I have to admit that I watch all of the Real Housewives shows in addition to Shahs of Sunset. They are the ultimate show to have on in the background when you’re working from home.

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      GELLA - LLAPteenytinycornteeth
      6/30/16 10:18am

      wait there were RHO Chicago?

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      teenytinycornteethGELLA - LLAP
      6/30/16 10:41am

      No, I don’t think they ever got to that point because there was so much noncooperation from the city. Here’s a bullshit essay about how we’re all too sensible and awesome to have any Real Housewives drama, but the truth was no one wanted them filming.

      VH1 did a season of Mob Wives here in Chicago and had similar redtape so it got cancelled after maybe half a season? Maybe a full one.

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    kitteneyeAimée Lutkin
    6/30/16 11:00am

    The show title implies that those young folk living it up at Gosman’s for two months would become the face of the area, an understandably horrifying possibility to people who barely tolerate the visitors keeping them economically afloat.

    See: Jersey Shore.

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      GhostofGMaMazurkitteneye
      6/30/16 1:03pm

      So much truth. Ugh.

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      cynceritykitteneye
      6/30/16 4:21pm

      That’s exactly what I was thinking. No one wants their town to be a a repeat of that car crash that you can’t stop watching.

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    madmadammimAimée Lutkin
    6/30/16 2:00pm

    I just keep thinking of the episode of The Simpsons where the entire town of Springfield sets out to fleece the Hollywood producers.

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      MountainMommaAimée Lutkin
      7/01/16 11:01pm

      A Bravo spokesperson told Page six, “This show is not about Montauk and never was — it’s about the people in this house.

      Sorry, Bravo, too late ... that show’s been done.

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        JujyMonkey: Clever tagline goes hereAimée Lutkin
        6/30/16 9:57am

        Gossman’s fried shrimp in a basket is the BEST.

        Love Montauk.

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