CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — With summer around the ... “The flights have been really cheap lately coming to Corpus from Ohio. We’ve already looked into that,” Ayers said.

Editor's note: Robin Soslow was a guest of Lively Beach, which paid for her stay during reporting. All opinions expressed below are entirely hers and were not subject to review by Lively Beach.

They live in Chicago and vacation in Florida but find affordability in Corpus Christi. “Yes I would say it’s very comfortable living. They have homes here very cheap. You can come down and ...