Any such thing as a Half-Back Snowbird?
Having been born and raised in the Florida Panhandle with some distain for "Snowbirds", I now find myself in a peculiar situation. Eighteen years ago we began to slowly progress toward the "upper" Sou...
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Like it or not, I am reasonably sure much of costal Florida and especially south Florida as we know it would collapse under its own weight if all the snowbirds left... sure it wouldn’t happen overnight but it would in time, almost all the CG are inhabited by them, condos and much of the residential housing is owned and/or rented by them… even a large number of the Florida residents are really nothing more than snowbirds with Florida plates on their car… this group also pays taxes year round and others pay yearly site rental… real-estate values would drop for everyone (again)…
Snowbirds are just people paying for training to become Florida residents that’s all and they pay plenty for the added services they get…
There are many places that would shutter their doors without the additional seasonal income and just as many would have never opened theirs… employment would drop for locals that would farther stress business income… I think snowbirds need Florida as much as Florida needs the snowbirds…
The middle south corridor is mostly inhabited by groves, cows, wild hogs, armadillos and gators, and a 12 mile bear crossing with signs so they know where to cross…
Arizona??? Where’s that…
Snowbirds are just people paying for training to become Florida residents that’s all and they pay plenty for the added services they get…
There are many places that would shutter their doors without the additional seasonal income and just as many would have never opened theirs… employment would drop for locals that would farther stress business income… I think snowbirds need Florida as much as Florida needs the snowbirds…
The middle south corridor is mostly inhabited by groves, cows, wild hogs, armadillos and gators, and a 12 mile bear crossing with signs so they know where to cross…
Arizona??? Where’s that…
