Winter Texan numbers dropping in the Valley
From the McAllen Monitor newspaper: Click the link below. http://www.themonitor.com/news/local/winter-texan-numbers-dropping-in-the-valley/article_17c72758-2294-11e4-ac7d-001a4bcf6878.html
Forum Discussion
What makes everyone assume the drop in visitation is due only to cost? We tried each of the normal snowbird locations for a year before deciding on our annual location. We ranked them as followed 1. Southern California desert 2. Lower Florida Gulf Coast Distant 3rd Arizona and a couple of laps down, South Texas. There is just so much more to do in our top two choices than there is in South Texas. From the California Desert it is less than 2 hours to the Coast, to all the shows and sporting events of San Diego and LA, there are casinos, fine dining, world class golfing, and a host of cultural events. We are less than two hours from about 5 major airports, so we can get anywhere on a moments notice. Maybe people's wants and desires have shifted and pot luck dinners, card games and just gathering with others is not on the top of the list for the next generation of snowbirds.
That isn't a criticism of the people who do snowbird to south Texas but there is always constant change in our recreational habits. In the 30s and 40s Baseball was our national sport, now it's football. The movie Dirty Dancing lamented the shift from a month in the Catskills to two weeks and 10 cities in Europe. In my opinion, South Texas rightfully earns the title of most economical snowbird destination, but that isn't what I make my decision on.
And that is on top of the fact that being close to the Mexican border really isn't the attraction it used to be. I would be a few pesos that proximity to the Border keeps more people away than it draws.
That isn't a criticism of the people who do snowbird to south Texas but there is always constant change in our recreational habits. In the 30s and 40s Baseball was our national sport, now it's football. The movie Dirty Dancing lamented the shift from a month in the Catskills to two weeks and 10 cities in Europe. In my opinion, South Texas rightfully earns the title of most economical snowbird destination, but that isn't what I make my decision on.
And that is on top of the fact that being close to the Mexican border really isn't the attraction it used to be. I would be a few pesos that proximity to the Border keeps more people away than it draws.
