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well, I guess if you want to use the word "snowbird", you have to do what the real birds do...go south for the winter...not a week or two!
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John&Joey
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I really don't care what is being called what here. That seems to be where the posts are currently going. What I'm really getting at is the economics of RV snowbirding.
Kinda hard to explain, but there was a post that stated that RV snowbirding is a dying thing due to fuel costs. All RV'ers know that statement has truth in it until you factor in the length of time of being gone, and the distance you need to drive to get south.
So I'm kinda curious what people think a snowbird really is, and the lifestyle that it represents. Jumping into a smart car, renting a hotel room for a month, and driving back is that snowbirding. Kinda is, but then again kinda isn't.
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pawatt
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RV daytrader wrote:well, I guess if you want to use the word "snowbird", you have to do what the real birds do...go south for the winter...not a week or two!
I will go with this. We go south for 6 months.
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BarbaraOK
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When we lived in Phoenix in the early 70s, snowbirds arrived in October, a few at first, then more and more, until the place was full, and they all wanted to go sightseeing in the morning as I was trying to get to work! Didn't matter where they were staying, they were just here, the restaurants filled up (and the prices went up) and then after spring training, when the heat arrived, they all disappeared, prices went down, and we could get to work without any hassles.
Now I are one.  But we don't go anywhere early in the morning - I know the cacti will be there later in the day.
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olfarmer
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Been going to Tx for about 10 yrs now but just for 2 weeks, 67 yrs old and still working. I won't consider us as snow birds until we spend the whole winter there. Don't know if that will ever happen as by the time I have to quit working, I probably won't be able to drive the MH either! lol
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Keith M
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Snowbird are like migrating birds in a sense. If you are out in the desert feeding birds at a feeder over the winter sometime in late March you will notice the birds disappear except for maybe Quail and Doves. You will also notice all your neighbors have started to leave and by the third week of April even though the weather is quite pleasant you are by yourself.
The hotels and condos on the other hand that cater to vacationers actually do quite well in April and May in area like Phoenix, Tucson, and Palm Springs filling rooms after the "snowbird" vacationers have left.
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In this part of Texas we like to refer to those folks from the north as Winter Texans.
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