[Bogie Shooter]

Originally Posted by Daxdog

All I can say is the SB’s in my area are rude, leave common sense up north, borrow my tools and don’t return them until they are ready to go back north and then just leave them on my front porch. And the people they use to watch and care for the homes are not the best. Yards are not kept up. The Canadian ones complain about everything from using different money to the food and health care.

Your post adds nothing to the previous 266. Did you actually read any part of this thread?

[Topspinmo]

Originally Posted by Becca9800

I honestly don't get it, why are TV snowbirds so despised? Can you explain it to us and help us understand what the divide is all about? Thank you.

So, few on this forum despise snowbirds and the rest of us gets thrown in that pie? Could someone please explain that.

[manaboutown]

Envy?

[ThirdOfFive]

Originally Posted by Daxdog

All I can say is the SB’s in my area are rude, leave common sense up north, borrow my tools and don’t return them until they are ready to go back north and then just leave them on my front porch. And the people they use to watch and care for the homes are not the best. Yards are not kept up. The Canadian ones complain about everything from using different money to the food and health care.

Odd. In my experience Canadians as a whole are some of the politest, most respectful folks around.

[Topspinmo]

Originally Posted by Bogie Shooter

Your post adds nothing to the previous 266. Did you actually read any part of this thread?

It’s only on lap two. Few more to go.

[Kelevision]

Originally Posted by Velvet

One guess would be congestion, on the roads, in the pools, on the golf courses, in the restaurants…. During the summer months around my place it is so quiet, full timers have gone traveling or visiting. All you hear most of the time is the sound of nature. And you have all these well looked after properties all around. It is like being at a high end resort.

So you’d rather them live here full time? I LOVE snowbirds for the very reason you just said people don’t like them.

[Laker14]

Originally Posted by golfing eagles

The term for a person who loves the English and their culture is an "Anglophile". Is there a term for someone who loves Canadians as much as this post indicated???

A "Canuckaphobe".

[golfing eagles]

Originally Posted by Laker14

A "Canuckaphobe".

I was going to suggest f***canuck, but thought it wouldn't last long

[kkingston57]

Noted most of the comments were regarding TV. Have lived in Florida for 64 years ago and term snowbird stated way before TV. Most of the complaints about snowbirds are due to increased traffic. In S. Florida a lot of complaints(anecdotal) were about New Yorkers and their drving.

After living in 4 different parts of Florida, there does seem to be much higher percentage of "snow birds" in TV than in other parts of the state.

We should never complain about snowbirds in Florida. The taxes they pay probably contributes to the non necessity of raising taxes in Florda.

[Laker14]

Originally Posted by golfing eagles

I was going to suggest f***canuck, but thought it wouldn't last long

but it does have the benefit of rhyme.

[Laker14]

I have a Canadian friend who always reminds me that 466A is the "Canadian Highway"...


466-eh?

[CoachKandSportsguy]

I haven't read all the responses, but I would expect people who prefer schedules/routines and don't like change, find that the winter months' routines have a less predictability, and their routines and schedules are less reliable. . . this causes them stress, its a characteristic of a personality type.

However, as GOM said, its tribalism, the need to feel part of a group, and a group that makes one special. Everyone with weak egos, look for ways to convince themselves that they are part of a special group, whatever that group is which they choose to assume they are a part of. . your tribe

I wouldn't take other people's dysfunction personally, that is the key to surviving amongst the small crazy people who post here stuff they wouldn't say in public. .

The OP may be overly sensitive, if so, limit your time here, etc, as your mind can play tricks on you. Your mind will assume that if you read a negative article a day, your mind will being to believe that ALL of TV is bad, yet that may be from a very small minority, or even one person like frose. . . so i applaude the moderator's determination to keep a close eye on all the posts. .

[davem4616]

Originally Posted by Becca9800

I honestly don't get it, why are TV snowbirds so despised? Can you explain it to us and help us understand what the divide is all about? Thank you.

'despised' is a pretty strong word

I look forward to the neighbors on our street returning from Canada, New York, Wisconsin and hopefully soon from Iceland.

I do know that people get pretty frustrated when a snowbird fails to make the necessary arrangements to have their yard taken care of while they're away and it becomes an eyesore for everyone...but IMHO I suspect that usually only happens once by a first time buyer

[Michael G.]

"Why are Snowbirds so despised?"

What this poster meant was: "Why are Snowbirds so LOVED."

[coralway]

Originally Posted by UpNorth

Snowbirds are lucky enough to have a place to go where it's generally cooler and more interesting than living in The Villages year round. So there may be an element of jealousy in the mind of the snowbird hater.

You nailed it.