A seasonal infestation of Yankees (as well as Midwesterners and Canadians) in sunny warm states in the South such as
Florida (and also out West in Arizona). A snowbird is an elderly Yankee that migrates down to the South to winter when their natural habitat of New York, Ohio, or
Michigan is too cold for them. Their migration begins in early September and lasts until
April.
You can spot a snowbird by it’s
white or graying hair color (or sometimes light blue or orange form a dye job gone
bad), it’s pastel colored clothes, use of sweaters, socks in sandals or
white tennis shoes, dark colored over sized sun glasses, and of course it’s irritating Yankee accent. They tend to drive over sized
gas guzzling cars such as Lincolns and Cadillac’s because they are retired and have the money to spend.
Typically known to drive well under the normal speed in traffic, (about 35 MPH below and in the passing
lane) and prone to rubbernecking therefore making places such as
Florida the traffic accident capital of the US. Other than making driving conditions terrible for Native Floridians and other Southerners, snowbirds also infest restaurants, post offices, stores, doctor’s office’s by the droves making it next to impossible to get it during the winter months. They in turn complain about how crowed it is and how they have to wait in line.
Even though tourist traps
love snowbirds because of the revenue they bring, most people who are native to the states the snowbirds visit hate them with a passion and wish they’d go
home.
