Seasonal Groundrule!
 

Around the 1st of each month until next April DON’T EVEN THINK ABOUT DRIVING ON I-75!

It will be nice to see the Snowbirds homes with cut grass. As it is many of you will be returning to lawns that the chinch bugs ravished. Many of your homes need better care.

Bingo.

The contributions in TOTV from the anti-snowbird types are as predictable as the seasons. Sept. Oct. is the start, rising to a crescendo around the end of December, then slowly petering out on towards spring. But I doubt that their numbers are really anything more than minuscule. A few disgruntled people can make a lot of noise.

Sure, it gets more crowded here than in the summer. Sure, there are snowbirds who don't really understand the rules of golf cart usage. And yes. Tee times can become complicated. But that is minor, really. For my part I enjoy golfing during high snowbird season because of all the interesting people you meet. A farmer and his wife from Iowa...a Canadian couple this past March who were not shy about sharing their disgust with how things are run up there in The Great North...a 96-year-old guy who still swung a mean club and who got a hole-in-one during our round (it WAS El Santiago, but still impressive)...several people from Baaaaaahston who were the exact opposite of what we were told to expect from New Englanders...some people from UPSTATE New York (why do they always add UPSTATE when identifying where they come from?)...and so on. Overwhelmingly good people. A couple of toads too, but you'll find toads here pretty much year round. Snowbirds give a lift and an added positive dimension to TV that just isn't there in the summer.

Maybe it’s your area that has issues.
What snowbirds don’t have a lawn and pest service. If they didn’t the lawn would be more than a foot high.
Our neighborhood has about 50% snowbirds, all of their lawns look as good if not better than the full timers.

We did have a newly widowed lady, that had never paid a bill on her own. She let her lawn guy lapse, but until it was straightened out , her neighbor mowed the lawn for her. Let face it, the lawns are so small here it’s under 20 minutes or less to mow

Snowbird/renter
 

After two lifestyle visits, my wife and I (and mini schnauzer) will be renting Jan-Mar somewhere in Collier. Looking forward to it, but reading some of the threads, it seems like renters and snowbirds are not welcome by some.

Unwelcome by some. Enthusiastically welcomed by most. Don't let a sprinkling of crochety old geezers form your opinions of The Villages.

Wow!
 

Time for the restaurants to bring out the snow bird menus, everything just went up 25%. Well maybe they will start taking care of the landscaping.:boom::boom::boom::boom::boom::boom:

Driving through Arkansas with my parents back in the late 70s(?) our NY license plates drew some odd and less-than-friendly looks. This was back when the Federal Govt was going to bail out NYC and not everyone was happy with the idea. The attitude changed when we explained that we were from the "other" NY, the part that didn't have the Empire State Building or Statue of Liberty, and that we weren't happy about it either. That's when I started adding "Upstate."

It also helped when I moved to Md and explained that I had never seen NYC and was actually closer to it in Md than where I grew up.

It seems there are many people who are unaware that vast majority of NY State sits between NYC and Canada.

Important
 

You must be because us full timers have to deal with closures and aeration of the greens. It's been impossible to putt all summer. I don't know why they feel greens have to be punched full of holes multiple times isn't once enough. Sucks to be us lol

They say Up State because people always ask because NYC and Upstate NY are two completely different places. Everything north of NYC is called upstate, lol. I have a son who lived in NYC and now lives in Upstate. I live in Mass and when people ask me where he lives and I say NY the next question is always, NYC or Upstate. It is strange, I agree. But that's why.

We add "Upstate " because to simply say "New York" is an incomplete answer. New York could mean "New York City" which is a completely different world than "Upstate". Upstate is very rural, very green, punctuated with many fascinating and beautiful natural geographic features, such as gorges, waterfalls, rivers, marshes, lakes etc.
NYC is mostly concrete and is densely populated with skyscrapers and high-rises.

Attitudes tend to be markedly different between the two areas, and generally political affiliations tend to be more "Red" than "Blue" upstate, compared to NYC.

I love visiting NYC, but it's a completely different universe than where I live in Upstate NY.

Interesting take on the issue. Very similar to people who say they went to college at "Berkeley" as opposed to those who say they went to "Cal." If you identified the school as "Cal" you are probably conservative. If you identified it as "Berkeley" you are referencing back romantically to its liberal protest history.

Very different also if you are from "L.A." versus being from "So Cal." While not such a political bifurcation, more of an income or urban vs suburban reflection of self-identity.

Final votes should be determined based on acreage.:D:D:D

Don’t forget the TAXES and Fees we pay help keeping living affordable!

Dont worry takes all kinds and not that many of that kind

As a former NYer always wondered why NY was not two states. Than again California seems about the same between north and south

Totally get that, upstate New York is beautiful and we enjoy visiting there. NYC on the other hand, work forced me there often but once I retired I vowed to never go back there again. I say we are from the Berkshires in Western Massachusetts, because otherwise people assume you are from the Boston area. Two entirety different places and lifestyles. We only go to Boston for two reasons, to visit our daughter or to get some of the best healthcare available anywhere in the world.

I think sweatshirt was meant and spellcheck intervened

Ohhhh noooo, another person read the OP's post and then replied without reading all of the posts..

:censored::BigApplause::censored:chilout

If you think restaurant service is bad now because of lack of staff, bad chefs, and rude management, just wait until next month...

:pray::2excited::cus:

:a20::1rotfl::1rotfl::1rotfl::mademyday:

Very few people go thru a large thread and wait to the end to reply.

More like coastal vs inland as far as Crazyfornia goes. The differences between northern and Southern California are more cultural than political, in my opinion.

I asked a groundskeeper that exact same question a few months back. They sand the greens and punch those holes so that the grass on the greens develop deeper roots. Summer is when the grass is most active, makes sense to do it then.

That's more words in one of your posts than I've ever read since joining in 2012!
(And well said, BTW.)

Oh, please!

Yes?

eyesight?

No worries, the ones who complain the loudest about how snowbirds ruin their life, are so old they forgot they were Snowbirds along time ago :girlneener:

Just enjoy, your time in TV. You will rarely encounter in person the bashing of snowbirds. You will find many who love to tell you what village they are from (it’s the best) and give you Directions when you are lost.

Just remember it’s Hot right now, and some posters, just need to find any reason to be unhappy about pretty much anything.

I’d not thought about putting on a sweetheart! Better than any sweatshirt I own!

Thanks for the smile😄

And the post didn’t even include a link to the CDD website, go figure?

Huh?

Hard to figure......compliment or criticism?

Neither, observation.

You mean there's gonna be more traffic? :shocked:

My sister is a snowbird and she'll be back for the next several months. Looking forward to seeing her again.

Here in SoCal where our summer has practically just begun with 110+ temps this weekend, it’s very difficult to relate. 🥵 Hoping to be there in cooler temps before much longer. 😜

As a life long Southern Californian I totally agree with your comment about California. When we travel up to Northern California it’s a different world up there. Much prettier in my opinion.

Beats an extra blanket !

I put my sweetheart on year-round. About twice/week, and we're both happy.

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Originally Posted by DARFAP
"Put on a sweetheart?"

We seem to have slowed down a bit as we got older.