Having just recently moved down here to Florida I'm having to learn the various local terminologies. Floridians have a word for all the northerners that flock down here for the winter. They call them "Snow Birds"! The first time I heard something like "You think this traffic is bad? Wait until the Snow Birds get here!" I was rather confused. I finally had to ask what it meant since I was fairly confident they weren't referring to geese blocking the roads! ;-)
>Huh? I thought everywhere was like Vancouver. :-)
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>I hear that Torontonians and Montrealers flock to Florida in the winter.
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>P.S. I also heard that winter in the east is any month except August.
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>>Florida is a hot destination for many of us who can't stand the cold in winter. Not everybody in Canada have a mild winter as you have in Vancouver... :)
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>The start of the tourist season? I thought it would be ending. Ohhh.. I guess it is a bit too hot in summer.
"It is an important and popular fact that things are not always what they seem. For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much -- the wheel, New York, wars and so on -- whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man -- for precisely the same reasons." - Douglas Adams
