Snowbirds' impact on the local economy.
This is written for deep south Texas, but I suspect it is true for many areas. Interesting article, at the end they also makes a case for the slow declining snowbird numbers which many members seem to...
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TomG2 wrote:Charlie D. wrote:
I question the $9640.00 average monthly spending and then add the additional "large expenditure" Seems contradictory. $9640 routine monthly and then it appears they are saying $13,400 total.
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I must be living in another world. Nobody that I know, and I know a lot of Winter Texans, spends $9,000/month. Probably not that much in the whole season while they are in the RGV. These folks really squealed when coffee went from a dime to a quarter in the park hall. (and that is for all day)
in the RGV in 2013-2014 contributed $710 million to the economy of the Rio Grande Valley during their stay. There were an estimated 99,500 Winter Texans in the Valley during the season.
My math would be:
$710,000,000 / 99,500 snowbirds = $7,135 average spent per winter stay. Can't say if that's per person or per rig.
