Did it happen?
Six weeks ago, I took note of the large number of vacancies at my park in Central RGV(Rio Grande Valley of Texas). People said, "Just wait until after the election". Others said "Wait until after Th...
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John&Joey wrote:. . . you can be as busy as you want. Yep. . .about 150 different kinds of card games, pool hall, a swimming pool, bean bag baseball, a jam where anyone who can't sing, read a note or have any musical talent can get up and warble.
That's funny (and not very far from the truth.)
I break retirement into three stages. First stage you're active and want to do and see things. Second stage is you're either physically (knees, hips, back, overweight...) or mentally (partner has the starts of dementia) and are unable to do those type of things and need a more sedimentary lifestyle. Last stage is you need assistance to maintain an independent lifestyle prior to going into assisted living.
If an RV park is in a non-destination area, good luck getting stage one mobile RV retirees to stick around. The best they can do is stage two retirees, but many are now talking more about the downside of owning two places. A better option for them is a gated community with condo/townhouse/casita where the HOA takes care of everything outside (even the siding and roof.) This is assuming they have the cash to do that. If they don't have the cash, then they are using things like VRBO, HomeAway, or Google hotel for just a couple of winter months away from their home base. Once again they are looking at destination areas if at all possible and a turnkey getaway.
Bottom line for me is you can't sell buggy whips forever no matter how you spin them, or how cheap you market them. Everything has a lifecycle.
Absolutely, I see a whole bunch of opinions and plenty of "I don't wannabes" but you know what ...... it is what it is. I mean you are the only one that decides what you want to make out of snowbirding. We have done much and have much to do but the clock is ticking and we are not going to ignore that.
We drive all over the US and then come to our winter home in Fl. It is our home RV park, we have lots of folks we've met in the last few years here.. There is no life competition, no "where are you working" talk, no, you gotta do this or that. The is fun, fellowship,
movies, events, cruises, entertainment and of course games. It is a winter lifestyle, we travel a lot in the fall, we enjoy northern Michigan all summer. Life is good for us, we don't try to influence others to join us but some do and that is fine.
Life is a system of trails ....you choose.
