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How is caring about your community and your impact on others considered "bitter"?


Edited to add....a funny little mark above a letter in your cussword gets it past the censors.

We have a big bunch of them here that go to Yuma.

I guess it's really nice down there. In fact...they all go to the same neighborhood.


It's wild to me...because they can't stand each other when they are here...but all move in next door together for the winter down there.

When they come back up here...they bitch about each other down there.

I think I would find a place down south with new and different people.

I REPRESENT THAT REMARK!!!!

Never thought about being a "snowbird", but now I are one!
In 2019, my youngest bought a home in S. Texas. We live in S. Oklahoma

So...yes! We are "snowbirds" in that we spend winters in south Texas.
NO....we didn't purchase property to set our RV on!
We don't even OWN a RV!

But I will admit this!
I am a native Texan. I was born and raised in Palestine, Texas.
I met and married an Oklahoma girl there.
My grandmother had property, my dad sold it.
My wife's family deeded us 80 acres.
So here I am in Oklahoma.

I have an Oklahoma "Lifetime Hunting License".
To hunt in Texas, a "non-resident" is over $250!
There are deer on the kid's property, but I can't see spending that much money just to shoot a meat doe!
I HAVE considered changing my residence from Ok to Tx.
As simple as getting a Tx drivers license.
With my.luck, I'm the one who would get raked over the coals and fined umpteen gazillion bucks for "illegally obtaining a license" or "maintaing a residence in two states to fraudulently obtain a hunting license".
So, I'll photograph the deer in Texas and do my hunting in Oklahoma! 😜

Is that like 500 miles Martin?

lol

Yup, I’m a snowbird. I have shoveled more than enuf snow. Had to go to work EVERY day. There was no such thing as a snow day for me for 33 yrs. plus.
So, now we travel from NW MT to SW NM each early Dec. After big game season is over and I have a half dozen rooster pheasants in the freezer it’s time to head south. Not at all a bit embarrassed about such. I can hunt quail from early December through mid Feb. Then, off to TX to hunt feral hogs.
BTW, no snow shoveling. MTG

I was kinda deep into my cups last night, but I won't disavow the thread.

To everyone I triggered, I'll crack a cold one for you here in a few minutes.

It's hard to get through my day being so jealous and bitter. lololol

It’s usually the locals in each location that don’t/can’t travel doing the bitching.
Floriduh is pretty famous for bitching snowbirds while soaking up their dollars like like a fat kid eating cupcakes.

I was just thinking the same thing.

If I am a bitter fùck...I hope the kids are too I guess.

That way maybe they keep my farm open for hunting instead of leasing it to some prick outfitter for lots of money so the rich non bitter people don't have to hunt the same land as the working class slobs.

Some of those slobs drive their shìtty vehicles for hundreds of miles so they can hunt with their kids.


I just hates it.

Lots of flat landers here have second homes in the Sierra or on the Coast.

Didn't seem to be a problem many decades ago. Most of the locals welcomed the extra influx of seasonal money to economy.

Not so any longer. Increasing population, Shrinking real estate opportunities and movement of Marxist Libtards into those communities F'd everything up.

Several decades ago Deer season was still a thing for these communities. Now your looked on with scorn when busting into a cafe decked out in gear.

What area?

My Great Uncle had a place in Truth or Consequences.

They really liked it down there.

The crux of it.
Some folks suck azz no matter where they are.

I didn't mean that the places they go are bitchy....the people that go there are.

Like I mentioned...our snow birds hate each other here...yet all congregate in the same place down south.


You would think they would split up some.

How about nomads? We flee the heat here for 5-6 weeks most summers. It is gorgeous here in the winter so we spend most of Sept-May doing road trips to Id.,WY. and Mt. Predator hunting in the snow is the best and the good places aren't crowded.

Judgemental folks are kind of boring


mike r

⁷Yeah..you are real good for the economy.

Buy a bag of rice to go along with the fish heads you brought from home.


Thanks for the business buddy!

Know a fella that just moved down south of Tucson from Idaho.
Sonoita area.
Apparently has some great quail hunting. That sounds fun.

Sonoita is stunning. And yes, lots of birds.

My in-laws have the best of all worlds. "Normal" house in northern Utah. Cabin in Fairview, Utah. Condo in St. George, Utah. Call them what you want, they worked hard and now they play even harder.

Wife and I are grateful for good insulation here. Starting a month or so back, when daytime temps were getting into the high 80's, open windows at night, close them and thermal curtains when the sun comes up, house stays cool enough for her (Coastal gal, 85 is "Hot" for her) until night. I just got the little window A/C unit out of the shop and into the master bdrm the other day as we're hitting 90+ on some days. Haven't even had to fire up the portable swamp cooler yet.

I grew up in the interior of SoCal and we had no A/C until well after I moved out of the house. Eventually the old man cut a hole above the front door and stuck in a window mount A/C as we had casement windows and he figured that was easiest.

Regarding the old methods, them Spanish adobes worked really well but I don't think the developers are willing to build houses with 2'-3' thick walls, verandas all around, and a plaza in the middle with pavers draining into the cistern for water catchment. They sure are nice and cool in the summer and warm in the winter when one gets a chance to visit one of the still standing ones from a coupla centuries back.

I get a crick in my neck.

Creeks are for swimming.....................except some are Injuns I think.