Yuma Snowbird Article

CardinalRule wrote:

Dog Folks wrote:

06Fargo wrote:

Dog Folks wrote:
It's the old:"You would not survive without our tourist money." Gee, as a merchant, I only heard that at least 1,000 times each year.

Yes, in Florida we appreciate your money, I even won't grip about restaurant lines, traffic, etc. But survive without you? Baloney. Don't overstate your importance.

How do you think we get by the other 8 months of each year that you are not here? (Note: The money does NOT come from gouging you for four months a year.)

We conduct ourselves as visitors when we travel in the western states (because we are) and wouldn't think of making such a rude statement to anyone in a local business wherever we are.

We have had lots of people in the US say thanks for choosing to visit and we have never had the feeling we aren't welcome.

Glad you have had that experience. Spend a day in South Florida behind a store counter and I guarantee you will hear it at least once.



It does get old, and is insulting because it tries to you feel like a second class citizen, and somehow the tourist was superior.

I still was polite and smiled because it was their money I was taking, not the other way around!

Hate to be a bother to you. Post the name of your establishment so that we can stay away and not be a bother to you. I don't want to go where not welcome.

After 35 years--Retired and comfortable thanks to tourist money. Now I no longer have to "hold my tongue."

I never said you were not welcome. 90% of our visitors were great people, and more than welcome.

You determine how welcome you are. If you tell me how I can't live without you, and also how much better, cleaner, cheaper, etc. everything is up north, at that point, you just made yourself not welcome.

I don't want to hear my town being misaligned over and over. Don't like this town? Leave. The interstates run northbound also.

This report paints a somewhat different picture of Florida's tourism industry, and what tourists (snowbirds are tourists too) contribute to Florida on an annual basis. It would be hard to imagine what Florida would look like economically, without tourists.

from Florida Tax Watch

Regards
Gemstone

Dog Folks wrote:
It's the old:"You would not survive without our tourist money."

Ok. Confession time.

I may have been one to utter that phrase before. However, it was only in response to being treated like s%$t by the curmudgeon behind the counter, and I lost my bearing for a couple of moments. You tend to get what you give.

Dog Folks wrote:

06Fargo wrote:

Dog Folks wrote:
It's the old:"You would not survive without our tourist money." Gee, as a merchant, I only heard that at least 1,000 times each year.

Yes, in Florida we appreciate your money, I even won't grip about restaurant lines, traffic, etc. But survive without you? Baloney. Don't overstate your importance.

How do you think we get by the other 8 months of each year that you are not here? (Note: The money does NOT come from gouging you for four months a year.)

We conduct ourselves as visitors when we travel in the western states (because we are) and wouldn't think of making such a rude statement to anyone in a local business wherever we are.

We have had lots of people in the US say thanks for choosing to visit and we have never had the feeling we aren't welcome.

Glad you have had that experience. Spend a day in South Florida behind a store counter and I guarantee you will hear it at least once.



It does get old, and is insulting because it tries to you feel like a second class citizen, and somehow the tourist was superior.

I still was polite and smiled because it was their money I was taking, not the other way around!

Hate to be a bother to you. Post the name of your establishment so that we can stay away and not be a bother to you. I don't want to go where not welcome.

06Fargo wrote:

Dog Folks wrote:
It's the old:"You would not survive without our tourist money." Gee, as a merchant, I only heard that at least 1,000 times each year.

Yes, in Florida we appreciate your money, I even won't grip about restaurant lines, traffic, etc. But survive without you? Baloney. Don't overstate your importance.

How do you think we get by the other 8 months of each year that you are not here? (Note: The money does NOT come from gouging you for four months a year.)

We conduct ourselves as visitors when we travel in the western states (because we are) and wouldn't think of making such a rude statement to anyone in a local business wherever we are.

We have had lots of people in the US say thanks for choosing to visit and we have never had the feeling we aren't welcome.

Glad you have had that experience. Spend a day in South Florida behind a store counter and I guarantee you will hear it at least once.

It does get old, and is insulting because it tries to you feel like a second class citizen, and somehow the tourist was superior.

I still was polite and smiled because it was their money I was taking, not the other way around!

Dog Folks wrote:
It's the old:"You would not survive without our tourist money." Gee, as a merchant, I only heard that at least 1,000 times each year.

Yes, in Florida we appreciate your money, I even won't grip about restaurant lines, traffic, etc. But survive without you? Baloney. Don't overstate your importance.

How do you think we get by the other 8 months of each year that you are not here? (Note: The money does NOT come from gouging you for four months a year.)

We conduct ourselves as visitors when we travel in the western states (because we are) and wouldn't think of making such a rude statement to anyone in a local business wherever we are.

We have had lots of people in the US say thanks for choosing to visit and we have never had the feeling we aren't welcome.

yep, and that "attitude" that was shown is the reason we moved out of one state, after 30 years and refuse to go back, even to visit the kids......the area you are in, John & Joey, has a great attitude and one reason we like it there, too.

Yep, it's the local people that make us keep coming back (not Yuma though.)

If I wanted attitude, there is a million places in this world a person can go find that. If you want to be treated like a good neighbor, now that's not such an easy thing to find now-a-days.

We have been going to Yuma for 6 years, we love it in Yuma, so much we just bought an RV lot in the Foothills.

It's the old:"You would not survive without our tourist money." Gee, as a merchant, I only heard that at least 1,000 times each year.

Yes, in Florida we appreciate your money, I even won't grip about restaurant lines, traffic, etc. But survive without you? Baloney. Don't overstate your importance.

How do you think we get by the other 8 months of each year that you are not here? (Note: The money does NOT come from gouging you for four months a year.)