Floridatennisplayer
Recycles dryer sheets
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- May 3, 2014
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Live in Ohio. My grandparents were our first snowbirds. Bought in southwest Florida to get out of the cold depressing Ohio winters. We would visit them as kids. Then my parents followed suit and bought a condo. And now two generations later my wife and I bought a condo and my sister and her husband.
We have "condo friends" that are also winter snowbirds and we love going out together ......we all spend a lot of money for the local economy in restaurants, shopping, contractors for remodeling etc. We pay full year property taxes but are only there for 90 days. Boy, that's a deal for the city!!!!! We LOVE Our FLORIDA CITY!
However:
Didn't realize I had to root for the local team.
Didn't realize just because my full time residence is somewhere else that I was automatically a poor tipper. Or that I was rude. Or that I have to become close friends with locals, I'll need to ask them first if they are full time residents.
Sounds like Joe doesn't like his city doubling in size for the winter and is quite bitter. We run into these complainers in restaurants sometimes. Grumbling...damn snowbirds..
Think of the benefits of the snowbirds first.
We have "condo friends" that are also winter snowbirds and we love going out together ......we all spend a lot of money for the local economy in restaurants, shopping, contractors for remodeling etc. We pay full year property taxes but are only there for 90 days. Boy, that's a deal for the city!!!!! We LOVE Our FLORIDA CITY!
However:
Didn't realize I had to root for the local team.
Didn't realize just because my full time residence is somewhere else that I was automatically a poor tipper. Or that I was rude. Or that I have to become close friends with locals, I'll need to ask them first if they are full time residents.
Sounds like Joe doesn't like his city doubling in size for the winter and is quite bitter. We run into these complainers in restaurants sometimes. Grumbling...damn snowbirds..
Think of the benefits of the snowbirds first.