Goal: Leave Texas from June-October, returning for Nov-May

Wondering if we have any seasonal Texans here. If so, do you:

- Own a second home?
- Rent a home/property?
- Use travel points for long term stays at hotels/resorts?
- Cruises?
- RV?

The idea is to keep our primary home and come back to that each fall. But travel during the brutally hot times of the year. Basically the opposite of the snow bird.

Interested to here of anyone who splits time in a different part of the country/world.

This is one of my life goals. I'd like to spend May/June-August somewhere else and return in time for Aggie football. I've looked at rentals in the PNW and Alaska.

Legend.

Colorado and Park City basically become Texas North every summer.

We have a place in Western North Carolina at 3500ft. It's great for the spring/summer/fall. The plan is upon retirement to spend most of every summer up there.

Badass

I wondered about this. The influx of Texans/southern summer travelers into places. And if it makes sense to look outside the box a little. Coastal New England, Upper Michigan, etc. I haven't traveled to enough US summertime gems to know what's out there, but this is what the next 5-7 years are for. Find a place, and start making plans.

My next door neighbors just bought a small condo in the Seattle area (Bainbridge Island) expressly for this purpose.

For those of us not in the top 5% of earners, I would get a place in Cloudcroft, NM, in the summer. One day drive from Houston. Affordable, low property taxes. Could even rent it out during ski season.

My dad takes his travel trailer to Ruidoso, NM and leaves it there all summer, where he spends the vast majority of his time. His main home is on the water in Corpus.

Obviously the weather there is great, but he also raves about the RV parks they have.

Northern MN/WI/MI

If I could, I'd spend Summers in Western NC, Fall in the Florida Panhandle, winter in the Antilles, and Spring in the Keys.

I'd only come to Texas for health care, a few Aggie football games, a Aggie baseball series or two, and funerals.

htxag09 said:

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My dad takes his travel trailer to Ruidoso, NM and leaves it there all summer, where he spends the vast majority of his time. His main home is on the water in Corpus.

Obviously the weather there is great, but he also raves about the RV parks they have.

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He's close...but Cloudcroft kills Ruidoso. Shhh...don't tell anybody. Ruidoso is 2000 feet lower (hotter), and way more crowded.

We have looked for a place to buy or rent summers. It seems Olympic oeininsuka, Montana, Alaska, are so expensive. Western NC seems intriguing but I wouldn't be surprised that that is expensive as well. I love Cloudcroft but my wife hates high altitude.

My wife and I are are both teachers. Our children are grown and self sufficient (Don't ask for money). We own our home and have no debts. We have always worked multiple jobs to complete our year, but have recently cut back to just teaching during the school year. I consider us semi-retired since we have so much time off.

We would love to find a place to "summer." Read- Cool weather only. I'm loving hearing y'all's suggestions. We've enjoyed visiting Germany and Czech Republic, and have thought about renting for the summer and possibly buying a small place. We need to spend more time in the northern US and Canada.

This is our plan - have a summer and winter house. Summer either in Texas or Florida, winter in maybe Colorado. Of course things could change, but this is what we hope to do. Maybe even throw a Mexico house in there.

Our plan is to vrbo for a month or six weeks and work remotely. Before covid, this was not an option. Now, maybe. Bossman is no dummy. He knows how much work would really get done in this scenario, but just maybe. I like to think we are just emulating the Bush family. Not sure where we would go, but someplace cooler.
As it sits, every year we take at least a long weekend out of the heat.

My bad. My parents always used snow birds to mean northerners who left at the first snow an "flew south" for the winter.

So in my mind, the opposite is fleeing north when the 90s hit in the south.

TikkaShooter said:

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My bad. My parents always used snow birds to mean northerners who left at the first snow an "flew south" for the winter.

So in my mind, the opposite is fleeing north when the 90s hit in the south.

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Made sense to me since we're the permanent residents going the other direction to a vacation home. We go north, they go south.

And yes, that is my eventual goal.

Aka winter Texan. Tons of em in south Texas

I posted this on the Outdoor board, but xposting here as we'll.

My wife and I are very interested in leaving during the summers, but haven't yet taken the plunge. However, after last summer, we are highly motivated to get the heck out of dodge between June-Sept.

Question: What type of protocols do you implement to handle things while you are away? For instance- do you turn the water off to the house, do you forward your mail to your vacation location, etc.

Any info/tips you can provide are greatly appreciated

dylan said:

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We have looked for a place to buy or rent summers. It seems Olympic oeininsuka, Montana, Alaska, are so expensive. Western NC seems intriguing but I wouldn't be surprised that that is expensive as well. I love Cloudcroft but my wife hates high altitude.

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So I guess that rules out Taos and Leadville...