snow birds

wwubben · #1 05/15/11, 08:49 AM

Many northerners have winter homes in the south.Do any southerners have summer homes in the north.I don't know of any in this area but I thought some may go to the lake areas.Do you know of any of this going on?

rockinl · #2 05/15/11, 08:57 AM

Absolutely. In Traverse City, Michigan, that is very common. We purchased a summer home there. Probably less than half of the homes near our home are lived in year-round. Most of the homes are not even built to be lived in year-round, like no insulation and such for winter. They are just cabins and cottages for summer.

We are moving there fulltime this summer and staying this year though.

Our winter home is Houston, TX.

After we move there this summer, if we keep a place in Texas, we will be a snowbirds though!

Timberline · #3 05/15/11, 10:34 AM

Yep, lots of summer homes around here.

Shygal · #4 05/15/11, 10:37 AM

I sure do. Vermont is full of people from Florida, in the summer

ronbre · #5 05/15/11, 02:51 PM

a lot of our neighbors live about 5 hour drive south of us..but not south south

stamphappy · #6 05/15/11, 02:53 PM

Over on the coast there are a lot of summer homes for our southern friends. There are lots of RV lots and also many gorgeous summer beachfront homes. I think it would be lovely to spend a week or two at the beach in the summertime!

Usingmyrights · #7 05/16/11, 10:31 AM

I'd like to, but mine wouldn't be a summer home. It'd be a weekend getaway and a place to spend a few weeks in the fall (hunting season). We don't really have seasons here in FL so its a nice change. Here its pretty much summer and winter with about a week or two inbetween of decent weather.

**Tiempo** · #8 05/16/11, 10:40 AM

Yup, like rockinl said, northern Michigan is chock full of summer homes from rustic cabins all the way up to fancy houses (they call them "cottages" but they're not my idea of a cottage

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DamnearaFarm · #9 05/16/11, 10:56 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tiempo

Yup, like rockinl said, northern Michigan is chock full of summer homes from rustic cabins all the way up to fancy houses (they call them "cottages" but they're not my idea of a cottage

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We have 'cabins' here

So I know what you mean about 'cottages'.

Hoop · #10 05/16/11, 06:50 PM

This area is filled with people, many of which have 3 homes. 1 here in the Northwoods, with all the clean lakes, 1 in a metropolitan area (Chicago, etc) and 1 in a southern climate.
Obviously, few "blue collar" working stiffs have the financial wherewithal for this sort of living.

Parttimefarmer · #11 05/16/11, 07:05 PM

Our "summer home" is NW Michigan right off Lake Michigan. Previously my parents did the Florida/Michigan rotation, but now they are at our cabin year round. I love NW Michigan. One trip to Sleeping Bear Dunes and my heart never left.

Beeman · #12 05/17/11, 08:14 AM

North Carolina has a lot of summer homes owned by people in FL. Now starting to become common here in TN.

Alice In TX/MO · #13 05/17/11, 08:52 AM

ME ME ME!! My permanent home is Texas. On or about May 1, the goats and I migrate north to Missouri. I *love* the Ozarks. We head home about November 1.

One of our neighbors here in Missouri is a Florida resident. He's here as much as he can in the summer and then for hunting seasons.