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Observing the (Not So Illusive) Snowbird

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Another cold snap so a chance to get back to the post I was going to make earlier when I interrupted myself.  Life in the Slow Lane Tres Amigo's - my new best friends from El Paso, Pancho and Sergio                             On a recent rare nice day while I was out abusing yet another golf course – looked like a herd of prairie dogs had been through when I got done – I noticed the large number of newly laid out lots around the course. There were a bunch more than last year. You pass through a whole bunch of new developments on the way to this course too, also with many new lots. Mostly these are  destined for  nice, normal, middle class 2/3BR homes; many for us snowbirds, I presume. What a relief to see homes for the average joe.  Your new home awaits Anyway this reminded me that I had been thinking about the whole snowbird - and " sunbirds" ( people moving south full-time) - thing.  “Mature” people, snowbirds or what ever they were called, have been packing up and hea