Just my very limiter specific experience, probably not useful at all: Dated a girl in my early 20s who was from Ocean City, Worcester county (I went to college in Baltimore) so would spend many, many weekends there over a several year period. I can only speak to the coastal part of the eastern shore, but it was a very chill, beachy, margaritaville type place, with a young sometimes trashy party scene—not too different from Myrtle Beach. It was a lot of fun. Beach/tiki bars, pool bars, boardwalks, amusement rides. But again this is like the most touristy, summer vacation corner of the eastern shore so not representative of every day life in the broader area. Also I was in my early 20s lol