Reply to Talk to me about Tampa, FL?

Forum Index » Florida

Reply to "Talk to me about Tampa, FL?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous]My parents have had a house in St. Pete’s for 2O years and just moved down full time 3 years ago. My best friend with school age kids has lived in South Tampa since 2013.

Pros: more laidback work culture, closer to beaches, more space for your money, becoming more interesting and diverse than it was even 5 years ago, the weather is pleasant 5 months of the year, if your child is academically gifted, they can get a lot of money to go to University of Florida

Cons: the traffic is horrendous and people drive crazy (you are not actually legally required to use your turn signal in FL- I think that is why they are a lot of bad wrecks on a daily basis), food scene is pretty mediocre, there isn’t really a deep arts scene other than the few established museums,  it often feels like a huge suburb that can be anywhere. If you care about politics, it is very Trump Republican, not even regular Republican and there is a lot of weird evangelical/QAnon undercurrent. A “normal” conversation with a parent at a soccer game  can turn to “Have you heard that the Chinese are building a lab in Area 51 and they want to make everyone gay?” If you live near any water, alligators make it not so safe to go running/walking at night/dawn when it is cooler or just let your dog out (they can climb fences BTW). Hurricane evacuations and wildfires are an annual occurrence and not fun at all.

I like visiting Florida for 1-2 weeks at a time. Personally, I think there are better places to live plus with climate change the storms and heat are going to get worse in FL. My best friend is going to move back up North once her kids are out of college. She can’t wait to get out of FL. Good luck![/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics