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Originally Posted by Michael G.
Sooo snow birding as pleasant as it is to escape the northern winters is
not a cheap endeavor for the middle class, would you agree??
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Maintaining two homes is certainly not cheap.
But... Some costs will be fixed wherever you live. Entertainment, food, health care, for example...
We took the plunge just over two years ago. Our northern home is paid off. We had visited friends in TV once, and had rented for 2+ months a year later.
We decided the time was right. We're glad we did. Shortly after our offer was accepted, housing price exploded and interest rates started going up.
We were able to get a very nicely upgraded home, with a reasonable mortgage @ under 3%. It'll put a slight crimp in our discretionary income, for the next year or so, until I retire and we sell the home up north and become frogs...
We look at it this way. During covid, we weren't traveling, so our home in TV became our escape, with the upside of making new friends while preparing for retirement...
My wife has joined 2 social groups, has a golf group and has fallen in love with pickleball, and I'm in 2 golf groups, and a "boys night out group" once a week when I'm there.
We also joined our neighborhood "social group" that has monthly events that we attend when possible...