Winter Texan numbers dropping in the Valley

John&Joey wrote:

quartzster wrote:

John & Angela wrote:
I'm not sure costs have gone up much. Fuel hasn't changed in 8 years, maintenance probably up a bit along with food etc. Are campgrounds up much??

In our park, the pad fees are up, and the City just did a reassessment so that my taxes for example, went from $500 to $800 with no improvements. Gas has been up and down over the past few years....mostly up in my experience.

I don't know about campgrounds.

I would be very interested in seeing the US vs Canada snowbird numbers. US health care costs have gone up way past US yearly inflation. Hard for a US citizen to retire prior to 65 when health care is "mostly" covered. This is not the case for our neighbors to the north.

A US couple can easily pay $1,200us per month for health care. It's too much of a risk to go without.

I tried to find the article I read on the age bubble passing through the Canadian system that showed the next bubble in about 9 years but can't find it. I think RV prices are fairly stable up here. I don't know much about American health care costs so can't comment but would imagine higher health care costs there affect the price of insurance policies for Canadians travelling there. I know friends in their early 70's are paying close to 8000 dollars for 6 months in the US. Think there are some pre-existing conditions in their case. I know of others who have stopped going to the US and are now flying to Spain and renting for three months on the south coast of Spain as they don't need travellers insurance there. The one couple still gets repatriation insurance, not sure of the details on that. I suspect we may do the same one day but US travel insurance is still cheap for us in our early fiftys.