My cousin winters in Arizona

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dflprincess

My cousin winters in Arizona
and reports that her retirement community is now up to at least 50 homes owned by Canadians that are up for sale. A few weeks ago she was surprised that there were about 5 already on the market. She tells me that in a normal year 5-10 get sold usually because one of the owners has died or because they have health problems that have made it difficult to travel.

Some of the people she's talked to are planning to get new homes in Mexico or Costa Rica.

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Nobody gives a shit

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dflprincess

My cousin winters in Arizona
and reports that her retirement community is now up to at least 50 homes owned by Canadians that are up for sale. A few weeks ago she was surprised that there were about 5 already on the market. She tells me that in a normal year 5-10 get sold usually because one of the owners has died or because they have health problems that have made it difficult to travel.

Some of the people she's talked to are planning to get new homes in Mexico or Costa Rica, and...and...and others are planning to marry Morgan Fairchild who they've seen naked. Yeah, yeah, that's the ticket.

So many of DU posts are like they're from old SNL skits.

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Nobody gives a shit

     As a resident of Arizona: good. **** off. Fewer Ontario, Minnesota, and Alberta license plates driving 4 mph wondering where Shoney's is because they have a printed map in their car from 1993.

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     As a resident of Arizona: good. **** off. Fewer Ontario, Minnesota, and Alberta license plates driving 4 mph wondering where Shoney's is because they have a printed map in their car from 1993.

Shoneys 😂😂😂

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Shoneys 😂😂😂

     I exaggerate only slightly, I assure you. I am all for people doing as they please, but if Canadians have a problem with Trump, they can vamoose off to somewhere friendlier. These people are whiter than white Americans, however, so I chuckle to think about them going anywhere south of the border.

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. I know basically nothing about Costa Rica, but there is something hopeful about a
Reply to dflprincess (Original post)
Sun Mar 30, 2025, 12:28 AM
...country whose justice department is called the Ministerio de Justicia y Paz (Ministry of Justice and Peace).

Unfortunately, it sounds like they have their own asshole at the helm these days:

So since their president is going conservative, he’s become an asshole. If they want more progressive society, they should try Cuba or Venezuela.

And as a Floridian, if the Canadians left and never came back, I wouldn’t miss him. They clog up the highways and restaurants, and from what I understand, they’re lousy tippers.

[SVPete]

If the OP isn’t fiction, those Canuckians cannot vote, legally at least, and their numbers are not a big deal to the local economy, plus or minus a poutine joint. And if some have voted illegally, good riddance.

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dflprincess

My cousin winters in Arizona
and reports that her retirement community is now up to at least 50 homes owned by Canadians that are up for sale. A few weeks ago she was surprised that there were about 5 already on the market. She tells me that in a normal year 5-10 get sold usually because one of the owners has died or because they have health problems that have made it difficult to travel...

Given that Maricopa valley home prices have been driven to hell and gone - in part - by the locust Commiefornians looking for greener pastures for 20 years now, a platoon of snowbirds short selling their winter homes because they don't like Yankees anymore doesn't break my heart. It'll probably function as a small market correction that'll be forgotten by June.

Oh, 50 snowbird nests going up for sale in early spring is also nothing remarkable. In Arizona many of these 6-figure population communities double in size when the snowbirds arrive in late fall; 50 isn't even a hiccup...

[SVPete]

Vacation rentals has been a thing in the Valley of the Sun for decades. 50 fewer snowfowl will just make room for other snowfowl.

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The biggest thing is the loony is only worth 65% of a dollar. But if they sell it then means they get more loonies but the same dollars. So no economic difference. I'd try to explain this to the DUmbass DUchebags but it would be like trying to explain chess to a beagle.