Signs of how to spot a Snowbird.

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Old 12-29-2024, 10:37 AM
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They’re clueless when they approach a roundabout
So much for keeping it positive. First reply right out the gate. BAM!!
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Old 12-29-2024, 11:05 AM
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Old 01-23-2025, 11:38 PM
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They’re clueless when they approach a roundabout
What a typical response. You think the Villages is the only place in North America with roundabouts! 🤣 the problem with roundabouts has nothing to do with where you’re from but more to do with the drivers age.
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Old 01-24-2025, 06:02 AM
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What a typical response. You think the Villages is the only place in North America with roundabouts! 🤣 the problem with roundabouts has nothing to do with where you’re from but more to do with the drivers age.
I was going to get offended by the roundabouts comment (as a snowflake from Massachusetts). But in Mass, we really have rotaries, which are a bit different. They have started putting in roundabouts but ours are smaller and usually only 1 lane. I don't know that I've seen a roundabout in MA with 2 lanes clearly marked like we have in the Villages. It took me a bit to get used to it completely. I'm still not an expert. In MA the big ass rotaries have no lanes, no painted lines. You get in and it's then a free for all. Sort of like Clark in European Vacation.

There are a few roundabouts that have caught me off guard. They are the ones where to take the second exit you have to be in the left because the right lane disappears (only with painted lines).

A big mistake I have made and will warn others, wait until both lanes in the roundabout are clear before entering. I've thought I could enter because the car in the roundabout was in the middle/left and I was on the right. But that car could be exiting and you could be going to your second exit. I've cut someone off and only realized my error after thinking about it.
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Old 01-24-2025, 06:40 AM
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They DON'T speed in their golf carts or cars.
Always smiling.
Never complaining.
Leave big tips.
Hold the door for others.
Stop for people at crosswalks.
AND always say good shot!
Those unspeakable reprobates.

Being a relative newcomer, I do those things as well. I guess I'll have to wear a button or something so people now I'm a full timer.
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I am not pasty white because I have been out in the sun all summer playing golf in comfortable temperatures.

My car is not covered in salt because it comes down on an auto transporter and is delivered right to my door.

It takes me time to have a big smile on my face from ear to ear because of trying to hide that I am a snowbird because of the dislike from many of the full timers

When I am told that as a full timer,you just have to stay inside in the summer the way you stay inside up north in the winter. My answer to that that is I get to stay outside ALL year in comfortable weather. What is not to like, when you are a snowbird?
That above, is a snowbird. Some are more touchy then others. 🙂🙃😉

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Old 01-24-2025, 03:53 PM
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Pasty white but soft and supple feeling skin with less wrinkles, age spots and cancers.
Ooo! Sexy!
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Old 01-24-2025, 03:59 PM
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They DON'T speed in their golf carts or cars.
Always smiling.
Never complaining.
Leave big tips.
Hold the door for others.
Stop for people at crosswalks.
AND always say good shot!
Always compare stuff to "back home", which, of course, they think is better.
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Old 01-25-2025, 08:46 AM
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Always compare stuff to "back home", which, of course, they think is better.
All in how we were raised.
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