Inside Victoria Palms R.V. Resort, a community of “Winter Texans” which functions like a permanent summer camp for the 55-plus crowd.
Six days a week, Dave Rountree, better known as Omelet Dave, dons a foot-high toque and stands behind two double burners to make breakfast for the hungry retirees of South Texas. Every year, tens of thousands of these Winter Texans, as they are known, temporarily relocate from around the continent to the southernmost tip of Texas, a region known for its warm weather and low cost of living. Many of them wind up at the Victoria Palms R.V.
Victoria Palms, which was founded in the nineteen-eighties, is one of the area’s most upscale retirement communities. “It’s a status symbol among Winter Texans to stay here,” Ramirez said, as he took me on a golf-cart tour of the hundred-and-twenty-acre complex. “They don’t like it to be referred to as a park; they prefer it to be a resort. That tells you something.
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