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dflprincess

(28,738 posts)
Sat Mar 29, 2025, 09:41 PM Saturday

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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OrlandoDem2

(2,657 posts)
1. Can't blame them at all. We owe it to our Canadian friends to help fight Trump.
Sat Mar 29, 2025, 10:00 PM
Saturday

We must make this a worldwide anti-MAGA/GOP movement.

Close your wallet. Save your money. No impulse buys. Get your bills paid. Prepare for the coming recession. It’s gonna be ugly.

drmeow

(5,504 posts)
6. I'm keeping a list of things I want
Sat Mar 29, 2025, 10:56 PM
Saturday

that I'm not buying right now. When we take down those MFs I'm going to go on a spending spree!

Bluetus

(835 posts)
8. "Traveling while Canadian" will soon be grounds for arrest
Sat Mar 29, 2025, 11:12 PM
Saturday

It sucks that they will have to take a loss on their properties, but the writing is definitely on the wall.

There won't be many Europeans taking their holidays in the US this year. Instead of all these American corporations sucking up to Trump, they should be demanding he stop all this insanity. It is hard to work up much sympathy for the airlines, Disney and everyone else being hammered by these policies when they wouldn't raise a finger when we had the best opportunity to nip it in the bud.

marybourg

(13,328 posts)
3. I live in an Arizona 50-home sub-HOA with 3 Canadian snowbird owners.
Sat Mar 29, 2025, 10:12 PM
Saturday

None have put their homes up for sale. (The umbrella HOA has ~ 17,000 homes. I don’t know how many are Canadian owned.)

Greyhead

(133 posts)
5. I have friends in Sun City AZ
Sat Mar 29, 2025, 10:46 PM
Saturday

They are saying the same thing. Listing their homes and plan on buying their winter homes in Mexico or Central America

PortTack

(35,449 posts)
7. Now's the time get out b4 the housing market crashes there like it has in FL...cause it's coming
Sat Mar 29, 2025, 11:02 PM
Saturday

RainCaster

(12,469 posts)
9. Time to get out before the whole US economy is trashed
Sat Mar 29, 2025, 11:18 PM
Saturday

It's coming, the Trump Recession, possibly the Trump Depression.

pat_k

(11,070 posts)
10. I know basically nothing about Costa Rica, but there is something hopeful about a
Sun Mar 30, 2025, 12:28 AM
Sunday

...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:

https://www.icnl.org/resources/civic-freedom-monitor/costa-rica

But compared to what is happening here, perhaps it is a better bet for retirement.

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