I find the "we don't hate the snowbirds, we love the snowbirds!" to be just as insulting, just in a patronizing way. Maybe because I'm an "other" - I don't fit in with the "majority" of the Villages, in either religious upbringing or political bent. When I mention to someone that I'm jewish and they say "Oh I LOVE jewish people!" it makes me cringe. So when I hear someone say "oh I just LOVE snowbirds" I get the same knee-jerk reaction on behalf of snowbirds.
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