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Originally Posted by Michael G.
Do you feel snowbirds are wealthier than the people that live in TV year around?
They would need:
2 homes.
2 wardrobes at each house.
2 cars.
2 tax bills.
2 heating/cooling bills.
2 yard maintenance contracts.
2 doctors/dentist etc.
And someone to check on each house for 6 months.
We in TV thank you for sharing your wealth.  |
Wealth, I don’t think so. 2 homes yes but we bought Florida before I retired. My wife works and I collect a pension and disability. I was forced to retire when my cancer would not let me work at 56. We are only at our house 4-6 weeks a year. Will not sell our northern home as long as our grandson needs a place to live, just won’t happen. The homes are not huge. Northern home is 1872 sq feet bought 27 years ago, The Village home is a Villa at 1462 sq feet bought 3 years ago, small mortgage. Was only able to buy Florida home after collecting commissions from 2 huge jobs I sold before I went out sick and eventually retired.
2 tax bills yes bur both paid through the escrow accounts so we don’t really see them.
2 cars, yes but we have had 2 cars for over 35 years.
2 heating/cooling bills or 2 electric bills but the Florida bills are not bad since we are not there much.
1 yard maintenance bill as I do all the work up north, it is about all I can do.
Doctors up north only.
Don’t pay anyone to watch any house, daughter lives up north and our neighbors call call if the see anything and either a friend with a key checks it out or I fly down.
In addition to this we gave 2 campers, 1 on a seasonal site and one to travel with plus one boat that we keep on a lake near camp.
Mostly I blew through my 401k figuring my wife can sell everything she wants plus collect me life insurance and she will be good to go.
At best I have considered us as lower middle class.