we have way less snowbirds here this year, and if it keeps getting as cold as up north is, why would they want to come here anyway? Our home/condo sales are flat, many vacant homes, and more importantly, a HUGE shadow inventory of homes people have been living in without paying, many for years now. Sigh. We’ve a long way to go yet.....
Some of the Canadians we get are coming for their annual visits to real doctors or to get their cancers treated, etc. If we get Obamacare that will stop as they get vacation homes in India or Thailand or maybe in a few years in Central America or the Caribbean. The medical trade is what gave us a Winter season here when the Canadian dissolution of Medicine started biting. A good business to get into after Obamacare will be Medical Tourist Agencies.