#snowbirds

#snowbirds

The shift comes as some snowbirds grow uneasy about the political climate under U.S. President Donald Trump. John Kawiuk and Sharron MacKay, from Mississauga, told CBC Toronto they started feeling apprehensive after years of wintering in Florida. There was situations where we weren't welcome, MacKay said. Even from a security standpoint, as Canadians, we just didn't feel comfortable anymore. So they changed their plans and bought a place in Campeche, Mexico, last year.

An upstate couple who relocated to Florida is still on the hook for a $60,000 New York tax bill because they didn't prove their Sunshine State pad was their main residence, the state tax panel ruled in a recent bombshell decision. John Hoff and his wife, Kathleen Ocorr-Hoff, kept cashing paychecks here and didn't give up their local country club memberships, the tax panel found in the decision - which could give pause to snowbirds splitting time between the Empire State and Florida.