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re: Pros and cons of living in Tampa, Florida
Posted on 7/31/18 at 6:12 am to mountaintop
Posted on 7/31/18 at 6:12 am to mountaintop
quote:
pros
Great weather year round, minus the odd hurricane
Beaches
Fishing
Cost of living
Job market
quote:
Cons
As said above, hurricanes (rare but a fact of life)
Hillsborough County is majority Dem (not the stupid SJW Dem yet tho)
Millennials (yeah they're everywhere)
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Posted on 7/31/18 at 6:31 am to mountaintop
quote:
What are the pros and cons of living in Tampa, Florida?
Have an ex who lives down there. I may/may not have made that trip a time or two...
Posted on 7/31/18 at 6:37 am to Spaceman Spiff
Con: lightning capital of the world.
Posted on 7/31/18 at 6:48 am to mountaintop
Pros:
Great and diverse job market
Strong economy
Quality suburbs
International airport
Tons of things to do (sports, restaurants, arts, outdoors)
No state income tax
Florida Gators
8 months out of the year the weather is perfect
Cons:
Summer is hot and rainy
Traffic during the school year
Two toll roads
Great and diverse job market
Strong economy
Quality suburbs
International airport
Tons of things to do (sports, restaurants, arts, outdoors)
No state income tax
Florida Gators
8 months out of the year the weather is perfect
Cons:
Summer is hot and rainy
Traffic during the school year
Two toll roads
Posted on 7/31/18 at 6:49 am to mountaintop
It’s a great part of FL to be in. Good airport. Bay Shore Drive. A lot of Midwest and eastern transplants kind of dilute the southern ness of Tampa so it doesn’t feel like the better parts of the Panhandle. Best restaurant is Colombia House in Ybor City area, you would not want to miss that one.
Posted on 7/31/18 at 7:31 am to mountaintop
Siesta Key has the best beaches in the lower 48.
Posted on 7/31/18 at 7:31 am to mountaintop
Pro - Trump will be there today
Posted on 7/31/18 at 7:53 am to Wtodd
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pros Great weather year round, minus the odd hurricane Beaches Fishing Cost of living Job market quote:Cons As said above, hurricanes (rare but a fact of life) Hillsborough County is majority Dem (not the stupid SJW Dem yet tho) Millennials (yeah they're everywhere)
^^^All of this then throw in the third world element. Since the last economic crash Tampa is an absolute shite hole. Then you have this:
Hillsborough County is majority Dem mostly from North East.
Providing you have a Southern draw you better be at the top of your class because these people will try to eat you alive. Proceed with caution.
Posted on 7/31/18 at 8:23 am to wrongRob
quote:
throw in the third world element. Since the last economic crash Tampa is an absolute shite hole.
Care to elaborate bc I've lived/worked here for 8 1/2 yrs and ain't seeing none of this.
Posted on 7/31/18 at 9:22 am to Wtodd
throw in the third world element.
I've been here since 1987 apparently I've seen a little more than you. My statement on "shithole" does not apply as much to the areas south of Kennedy Blvd and north of Gandy Blvd. This area absorbed the crash better than the other areas of the Tampa Bay/Hillsborough County, mostly subdivisions in "New Tampa" and Northwest Hillsborough County as well as Brandon and Riverview. Providing you were here prior to the crash you would know exactly what I'm talking about.
quote:
Care to elaborate bc I've lived/worked here for 8 1/2 yrs and ain't seeing none of this.
I've been here since 1987 apparently I've seen a little more than you. My statement on "shithole" does not apply as much to the areas south of Kennedy Blvd and north of Gandy Blvd. This area absorbed the crash better than the other areas of the Tampa Bay/Hillsborough County, mostly subdivisions in "New Tampa" and Northwest Hillsborough County as well as Brandon and Riverview. Providing you were here prior to the crash you would know exactly what I'm talking about.
Posted on 7/31/18 at 9:54 am to wrongRob
quote:
This area absorbed the crash better than the other areas of the Tampa Bay/Hillsborough County, mostly subdivisions in "New Tampa" and Northwest Hillsborough County as well as Brandon and Riverview. Providing you were here prior to the crash you would know exactly what I'm talking about.
What?? Are you saying New Tampa and Town N Country are shitholes? Your post is difficult to decipher.
Posted on 7/31/18 at 10:47 am to JawjaTigah
quote:
Best restaurant is Colombia House in Ybor City area, you would not want to miss that one.
Don't think "House" is part of the name, unless we're talking about two different places. Just "Columbia" is the name, right?
I enjoy Tampa/St. Petes. My dad lived near USF when I was younger so I spent a lot of time there. And I have had need to travel there occasionally for the last several years for work. Clearwater has great beaches, great fishing, great golf all over. It's hot as shite in summer but nothing anyone from the south can't handle. Florida has no state income taxes. Tampa is shielded from the worst parts of most hurricanes.
I've seen a trashy side of Tampa I am not fond of, but I don't think it's more than your average medium/large city.
Posted on 7/31/18 at 3:09 pm to GRTiger
quote:Yes! My bad. But it is still a great restaurant. The branch at St. Armand’s in Sarasota is too.
Don't think "House" is part of the name, unless we're talking about two different places. Just "Columbia" is the name, right?
Posted on 7/31/18 at 3:19 pm to mountaintop
Pro: Lots of pro wrestlers
Con: Overcrowded
Con: Overcrowded
Posted on 7/31/18 at 3:51 pm to mountaintop
Pros: Cons:
Living. Florida
Living. Florida
Posted on 7/31/18 at 4:01 pm to theronswanson
quote:
Pros: Great and diverse job market
Strong economy
Quality suburbs
International airport
Tons of things to do (sports, restaurants, arts, outdoors)
No state income tax
Florida Gators
8 months out of the year the weather is perfect
One of these things is not like the other, one of these things, does not belong.
One of my best friends lives in Clearwater. Whatever weather we got today in Greater New Orleans, they will get tomorrow.
They get hit with hurricanes, but Clearwater is well above sea level, so any flooding just sort of rises, falls, and drains off. They get the preliminary bad weather, the worst of the storm, the storm passes and they clean up and it's over, to put it succinctly. Of course, there's more involved than that, but not weeks of flooding, levee breaches, and crazy evacuation traffic.
If I ever had to leave here, permanently, this is an option I might explore.
Posted on 7/31/18 at 4:50 pm to AUstar
quote:
Probably the best area in FL. A little more urban than the panhandle, not as touristy as Orlando, and not quite as dangerous as Miami. (I lived in the Bay area for a number of years in my 20's).
You pretty much left off the entire east coast of Florida.
Tampa is a cool city, and much better than Orlando.
Posted on 7/31/18 at 5:05 pm to mountaintop
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