Thereโs a new generation of snowbirds flocking to South Florida this season according to Michael Laughlin of the Sun Sentinel.
Theyโre young, mobile and working remotely due to COVID-19. The pandemic has closed their offices. All they want is great Florida weather and a good WiFi.
They are in their 20s, 30s and 40s and lived in New York and New Jersey until the pandemic made them think about life in the big city.
They are called snowchicks, offspring of our the seasonal Florida snowbirds.
Jessica Stallone, 29, has moved from New York to live with her parents and sister in Boca Raton, where she grew up, and feels like she is missing out on the key life experience of becoming self-reliant after finishing school.
โI want to live my life. I love my independence,โ said Stallone, who works remotely for the Anti-Defamation League. โItโs been a difficult adjustment.โ
After finishing graduate school at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill., Stallone came home to Boca Raton for spring break as the pandemic began and stayed for three months. She moved to New York in September to take the ADL job, came home for Thanksgiving and is hunkering down in Boca now for a second long-term stay.
โI thought Iโd go back after the holiday,โ she said. โAs it got closer to the flight, the reality was that the pandemic was going in the wrong direction.โ
Stallone says sheโs here โindefinitely.โ
โIโm going to stay put down here until I feel like itโs safe to be back in the city or thereโs a vaccine available to me, or both,โ she said.
READ MORE AT: https://www.sun-sentinel.com/coronavirus/fl-fea-ss-prem-new-snowbirds-20201205-b7urf7gyfbb7toautp7ts7svzu-story.html
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