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Mountains, Pacific Coast, No rain in summer & mild winters, Stanford & Cal, BART, Giants, A's. 49'ers, Warriors, Sharks, Quakes, Tahoe, Yosemite, Angels Camp, Jackson, Reno, Napa, Healdsburg, Monteray, Big Sur, Santa ______, San ______, Cambria, Grass that just grows with just little help, Hiking thru Redwood Forests, Gold Panning, San Francisco, Berkeley, Oakland, San Jose, Fremont, Gilroy, Pleasanton, Danville, Livermore, Half Moon Bay, Palo Alto, Saratoga, Los Gatos, Castro Valley, Richmond, Marin County, Yolo Causeway, Delta, Sacratomato, etc

And Mountains!


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We will be selling our NY home and moving down to our Florida home full time within a year or so. Life is a trade off, and all in all, I feel we are making an upgrade.
Still, there will be things I will miss, like;
1) The smell of fall and the crunch of colorful leaves under your feet.
2) Our church.
3) Fireflies and hummingbirds and Orioles
4) Having a choice of 20 good pizza places within 5 miles
5) Beef on Wecks, white hots, Chevettas
6) Wegmans !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
7) Grass that does not look like crabgrass
8) Snowblowing..(just a tiny bit)
9) Good ice cream places
10) Fish fries on Friday nights
11) Dunkin Donuts and Tim Hortons

What I won't miss;
1) Potholes
2) Snow, Ice, Black ice, Snowplows
3) Scraping your windshield, warming up your car for 20 minutes
4) Rusty cars from roadsalt, EVERYTHING rusty.
5) NYS taxes!
6) High heating bills
7) Closet full of winter clothes
8) Pushing shopping carts through slush, ice, etc.
9) Seeing the birds leave in fall because they're smarter then we are
10) Winterizing everything

But, I will get in trade;
1) Cool birds like Sand Hill Cranes
2) Cool roads with replectors on them, like Airport runways
3) BIG lighted streetsigns
3) A Walgreens on every corner (sarcasm)
4) No owning of ice scrapers, snowblowers , snowshovels
5) Palm Trees!!!!
6) little lizards everywhere
7) Cockroaches disguised as "PALmetto bugs"
8) Dressing like Hawaii 5-0 all year.
9) Cars lasting longer with NO RUST
10) My golf cart
11) Gators in my back yard pond.
12) low taxes, only one license plate
13) No stairs in my house, (sadly no basement)
14) No basement to keep clean
15) My own orange trees, (got 5 citrus trees....)
16) Mickey Mouse only a half hour away.
17) The Villages just right up the road from me.

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I would like to hear from more snowbirds what they like and don't like about being half and half. When I make the plunge, it will be half and half. Thanks. JK
I've heard the statistic that 40% of Villagers are seasonal residents. I'm not sure of the facts, but it does start to get quieter around April/May. Of course a lot of permanent residents also travel north in the summer to visit friends and family.

Except for the expense involved, I think being fifty/fifty is just about perfect. You still get to enjoy your old neighbourhood and friends and family and (hopefully) cooler summers. I love the late spring in Canada with the hint of summer around the corner. Now the leaves are starting to change colour .. always a beautiful time of year.

I love the cooler summers and living beside a lake for six months. And we've made incredibly good friends in TV who come to Canada to visit during the summer! Thank you Nonie and Bernie, we had a great visit. And then Beady arrived with her two puppies, and we enjoyed her visit immensely. And then The Captain flew in, and straightened us all out.

The best thing of all is that we Canadians get two Thanksgivings, and that is my favourite holiday. Like Christmas without worrying about gifts. We celebrate Canadian Thanksgiving in early October before we leave for TV. And then in November in TV, we have a wonderful friend who makes an incredible currant turkey dressing for US Thanksgiving.

How could anyone not love being retired?
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Damm, I will miss Kaiser Permanete also
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I'll miss family and friends here. Some will visit, and vise versa, but not as often as I'll wish they were around.

I'll miss fall. I'll miss my wonderful ladies golf association.

I'll miss having a bigger house, lots of big closets, a beautiful 2 1/2-acre lot and a basement. Sort of. I won't miss the maintenance.

We will have to get rid of lots and lots of "stuff". It will be interesting to see if I miss "stuff". I rather think I won't. I'm anxious to downsize. Or, more accurately, I'm anxious to have downsized. The process itself, which are are just starting, won't be fun at all.

I guess I'll have to revisit all this when we become frogs.

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The grandkids.
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6) Wegmans !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I second that, along with Perry's Ice Cream (where I worked as a student all those years ago)! Wegman's brand ice cream is made by Perry's!
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When I move down permanently I, too, will miss Wegmans! I will also miss Zweigles hots, Grandma Brown's Baked Beans, the fall colors, and my good friends.

I will NOT miss the cold and the snow!
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Skyline Chili, Graters Ice cream, my doctors, but mostly, my family and friends. I also miss knowing where to go for everything I need.
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Perry's Ice Cream is the best...favorite flavor now is Top Shelf Sundae.
Down there the closest seems to be Publix premium. They don't have Grandma Browns down there? I see when we come back up here for visits, etc, half the car will be filled with some Western NY favorites...
Maybe stop at the southernmost Wegman's off I95 on the way down...(I think in Virginia).

Oh...I won't miss the static electricity in the winter that blows your lips off when kissing your wife.....OUCH!
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Damm, I will miss Kaiser Permanete also

We have Kaiser and I think missing Kaiser Medical is a bit weird - maybe Norcal Kaiser is not as friendly as Socal Kaiser?


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For those who have never heard of Wegman's they don't know that they are missing a great thing to miss.
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MOUNTAINS!!!! That, to me, is the biggest negative to Florida. I really, really miss my friends back home even though I've made some great new ones here. I miss the cold, California rain; getting soaked and then taking a long, hot bath in my Roman tub was something I loved to do in the winter.

The farmers' markets. Had one on Tuesday, Thursday evening, Friday and Saturday. I really miss the fresh picked produce. I miss Gallo salami (can't find one I really like here) and, of course, sourdough bread (Fresh Market has some decent sourdough but I'm not too fond of the price tag for it).

I think I could miss so much more if I chose to, but the reality is that TV is truly hard to beat -- wonderful food, decent food, reasonable prices for most of everything and, the best of all, the wonderful people that live here.
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For those who have never heard of Wegman's they don't know that they are missing a great thing to miss.
lived in Clarence NY for awhile, it is a nice store
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