[Cybersprings]

Originally Posted by Rich Iwaszko

With the starting influx of snowbirds they are still getting used to the bubble again and have an adjustment period. An assumption on snowbirds of course, maybe wrong, we are grateful to them for leaving the place to the frogs for 1/2 of the year.

As the population grows people need to be more careful. Thats the point.

1. Given that it is still September, the odds are overwhelming that your assumption is wrong.
2. Leaving the place to thh frogs for 1/2 the year? but but, I thought (not necessarily from you), that when they were gone, the snowbirds were renting to dozens per house at a time????

[DonH57]

Originally Posted by jimjamuser

Didn't Jimmy Buffet have a song about changes in LATITUDE causing changes in ATTITUDE?

Yes. Indeed he did. While avoiding flying golf balls from people not concerned about physically harming others or other golf ettiquit practices, I remember that snowbirds do help slow the traffic down. Since I don't follow the herd mentality of having to eat at 4 pm or checking the mailbox precisely at a given time or grocery shopping in the same manner I do like when they are here. Actually living here near Spanish Springs is the least busiest year round!

[DonH57]

Originally Posted by jimjamuser

That IS the way I feel and also, why hurry when you are retired? Does that keep the Grim Reaper away? But, many TV Landers drive like their hair is on fire.

That's something I've been able to break since coming here. Living by a clock. I've actually never seen so many keyed up people in all my life. Most seem to not have a clue what time management means. Can't leave the house accordingly to make your tee time without endangering others with your golf cart. I've can't count how many times people ask the starters how fast the groups in front of them play because they have to be somewhere in an hour and a half or they get upset and rude if someone joins in on their threesome. Seriously?

[Cybersprings]

Originally Posted by Vermilion Villager

Hate to burst your bubble......Very few if ANY snowbirds come to FL for the culture!! .....We are not trying to get away from our culture. That "up north" culture we enjoy is why we have two homes! The ONLY reason I have a home in FL is for warm winters, golf and pickleball.

That wouldn't be going out on a limb at all.
I believe you 100% on why you do what you do.
But to say very few if any????? Thinking you may not even be close to right unless you are defining culture only as the cultural arts.

[Marmaduke]

Originally Posted by TJSanson

Its not just Snowbirds, its residents in general.

Yesterday at the grocery store I was in the checkout line, and holding two cold drinks in my hand and one other item, so I stand in line for the cashier because I had cash and the self checkouts were card only--and there were a couple people in front of me, and the lady right in front of me had just a few items and she put her items on the conveyor belt, and I took one of the item separators, placed it on the belt after her items and set my drinks down. She then said to me in a very snotty voice "If you're in that big of a hurry, just go ahead of me" and walked around to stand about 5 ft behind me. I looked at her and I said excuse me? and she said "I don't like it when someone crowds me, I got to have at least 5 ft of personal space." I told her I wasn't trying to crowd her I just wanted to set my drinks down cause they were cold, and I stepped back and I said "Knock yourself out."
She looked back and said "Knock YOURself out. I got to have space around me."

The Villages is supposed to be the friendliest Hometown, well I don't think so-- sometime in the last 10 years or so it's gotten the rudest most belligerent types of people I have met in a long time-- not since I lived in New York.
😤

Hey There New Friend, that I've yet to meet, but hope to one day soon~

Don't read too much into that nutcase. That is all she is!

I worked in mental health and there are some real loonybins out there!

But then, there are people who adhere to their psychiatrists and mental health specialist plan for them, such as daily doses of medication too control their public phobias and outbursts.

All that I'm saying is... don't paint us all with a broad brush. Most of us have a ball in this world of happiness and excellent fun and sunshine.
Most of us will really, really enjoy what you bring to the party.
Smile. WELCOME ABOARD.

REMEMBER- IF a person is a "meany" (or fill in the blank) at 30 years old, their personality is pretty much set by that age. That's the way they PAN-OUT at 60, unfortunately for elbow room lady who is clearly OFF her meds.

[tophcfa]

Although I suspect the OP’s issues were probably not caused by snowbirds, the migration has begun. Simple way to tell is to check the price of flights to/from Orlando from the Northeast. Midweek flights cost approximately three times as much to Orlando as the do from Orlando. Lots of very full planes heading in the Villages direction and lots of room available on the planes going north.

[JMintzer]

Originally Posted by MX rider

Restaurants are too crowded because too many people go at the same time. We seldom eat before 7:30 and rarely have a long wait.
I know it's tough to stay up past 9pm. lol

Same here, but our time is 7:00... When we're done eating, the restaurant is emptying out...

[JMintzer]

Originally Posted by jimjamuser

I can't take that anymore. I can't enjoy summer sports in Florida anymore. Summer will likely NEVER exist for me outside anymore here in Florida.
........I am jealous of all you SNOWBIRDS, so enjoy yourselves, I wish I could be there.

I hear the weather is much better in the Carolinas and in Tennessee...

[MX rider]

Originally Posted by JMintzer

Same here, but our time is 7:00... When we're done eating, the restaurant is emptying out...

Yep. lol. We went to Caraba's one night last January about 8pm. By the time we were done with dinner and a couple beers, they were sweeping the floors.
But we didn't have to wait for a table.

[ThirdOfFive]

Originally Posted by jimjamuser

This summer has been disgustingly hot, Hot, and HOT !!! Lots of "feels like" temperatures over 100 deg and often with no wind with blasting sun. If I play any sports in the morning, I sweat from my shirt down to my shorts and even my socks get damp. Next summer, if the is no Covid, I am going to play only inside with A/C type sports or inside classes. According to climate scientists we have had record world HEAT so far this summer and they predict even hotter next year. I can't take that anymore. I can't enjoy summer sports in Florida anymore. Summer will likely NEVER exist for me outside anymore here in Florida.
........I am jealous of all you SNOWBIRDS, so enjoy yourselves, I wish I could be there.

All comes down to attitude.

My wife is a tropical critter who whenever the temp hits 85 or above is complaining about how HOT it is. I have to remind her of A)what month it is and B) our address, also that we moved here voluntarily to escape -30 and snowdrifts up to our chin. Helps for a little while. But she still insists on hiding under an umbrella whenever we're out on the golf course. She also has this long, thin ice bag that she carries around in a cooler of ice and wraps around her neck from time to time.

I on the other hand embrace the heat. I actually feared moving here because I spent 72 years up on that tundra called Minnesota and had heard all the horror stories about Florida in the summer. But once here I found out I loved it! Odd thing--our part of Minnesota actually got more 100 degree days in a year than does TV (of course it gets oodles more subzero days too). But once here my arthritis just about disappeared and found that a quart bottle of ice water is enough for the first three miles of a six-mile walk in any weather, and a bottle of iced tea (Publix is the turnaround point) is sufficient for the trip back. Golf is great on any summer afternoon--just drive up and any course you pick is usually wide open after 2 pm or so.

And my tan is great!

[UpNorth]

Originally Posted by JMintzer

Same here, but our time is 7:00... When we're done eating, the restaurant is emptying out...

Keep in mind that a lot of kitchens prepare food far in advance of the prime dining time. Come late and you can expect to get some things that may have been sitting around for hours. Especially true in Mexican and Chinese restaurants. Our neighbor won't go to lunch at 2pm for that very reason. All may depend on what you order.

[Laker14]

Snowbirds: Someone who expects to be able to use facilities for a few months, that they pay for the entire year.

[MX rider]

Originally Posted by UpNorth

Keep in mind that a lot of kitchens prepare food far in advance of the prime dining time. Come late and you can expect to get some things that may have been sitting around for hours. Especially true in Mexican and Chinese restaurants. Our neighbor won't go to lunch at 2pm for that very reason. All may depend on what you order.

This has not been our experience. We never eat before 7 and our food has always been good.

[JMintzer]

Originally Posted by MX rider

This has not been our experience. We never eat before 7 and our food has always been good.

Same...

[Normal]

It’s easy to mistake a Newer Villager for a Snowbird. Both deal with assimilation issues. The newer variable though is the population boom in the Villages in general. The roads are more congested than usual for this time of year. It probably adds up to several contributors.