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Originally Posted by Tustin714
Not to sound churlish, but since we have snowbirds, snowflakes and frogs, how about mosquitos for the ones you feel are the short-term pests?
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Before moving here, we were snowbirds out west, spending winters in Lake Havasu City AZ (LHC) and summers in the mountains north of Lake Tahoe. LHC was a snowbird haven for folks from every state with winter snow, plus Canada. The LHC chamber of commerce had a good PR staff and was supportive of the snowbirds. Unlike most of the comments here, they wanted to encourage snowbirds, so they decided to start a campaign for the community to call them "Winter Visitors" instead. They got the local radio stations and newspaper to use the term and after a couple of years it caught on and everyone was using it. I thought it was pandering and preferred the term snowbird, so we continued to call ourselves that.
This is not really what the OP is looking for with this post, I just thought I would throw it in because it's still dark outside and I don't have anything else to do right now.