lizzie wrote:
Tell me again what this post has to do with Arizona? lizzie
If you're asking that question, you're too young to be a Snowbird (by any name), Lizzie.
Rambling off topic is one of the rights We Geezers vigorously exercise...and one of the few things we exercise at all!
JJBIRISH wrote:
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 wouldnโt 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 themโฆ even a large number of the Florida residents are really nothing more than snowbirds with Florida plates on their carโฆ this group also pays taxes year round and others pay yearly site rentalโฆ real-estate values would drop for everyone (again)โฆ
Snowbirds are just people paying for training to become Florida residents thatโs all and they pay plenty for the added services they getโฆ
There are many places that would shutter their doors without the additional seasonal income and just as many would have never opened theirsโฆ employment would drop for locals that would farther stress business incomeโฆ I think snowbirds need Florida as much as Florida needs the snowbirdsโฆ
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 crossโฆ
Arizona??? Whereโs thatโฆ
South Florida return to the way it was in the 60's. Small, quiet.
The entire shopping district would again be closed on Sundays and Wednesdays. Of course, some marginal businesses would close, but the whole area would survive.
Many, many marginal businesses close each year there. Mostly restaurants. Right now 15 new restaurants are going to open between now and December in Naples. (source-Naples daily News) How many will make it? I guess about three.
It would not "collapse under it's own weight."
Snowbirds and tourists are important to the economy, no argument there, but they are NOT vital.
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 wouldnโt 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 themโฆ even a large number of the Florida residents are really nothing more than snowbirds with Florida plates on their carโฆ this group also pays taxes year round and others pay yearly site rentalโฆ real-estate values would drop for everyone (again)โฆ
Snowbirds are just people paying for training to become Florida residents thatโs all and they pay plenty for the added services they getโฆ
There are many places that would shutter their doors without the additional seasonal income and just as many would have never opened theirsโฆ employment would drop for locals that would farther stress business incomeโฆ I think snowbirds need Florida as much as Florida needs the snowbirdsโฆ
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 crossโฆ
Arizona??? Whereโs thatโฆ
Snowbirds are just people paying for training to become Florida residents thatโs all and they pay plenty for the added services they getโฆ
There are many places that would shutter their doors without the additional seasonal income and just as many would have never opened theirsโฆ employment would drop for locals that would farther stress business incomeโฆ I think snowbirds need Florida as much as Florida needs the snowbirdsโฆ
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 crossโฆ
Arizona??? Whereโs thatโฆ
