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Old 06-09-2013, 06:46 PM
 
Location: 'Bout a mile off Old Mill Road
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Tampa's a small city? That's news to me! LOL.

Clearly, the writer of this article has never been to Providence, RI.
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Old 06-09-2013, 07:04 PM
 
Location: Native of Any Beach/FL
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yep town is right... but I do think it is trying to expand and grow up and be a bonafide CITY
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Old 06-10-2013, 01:03 AM
 
Location: Houston, TX
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Don't look at just the size of the city. Look at the size of the Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA). Jacksonville is the largest city in Florida, but it's the 4th largest MSA.

List of Metropolitan Statistical Areas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
They weren't talking about Pinellas, Sarasota, or Polk Counties, they weren't even talking about Hillsborough County. They were talking about the city of Tampa. I understand MSA's very well, but that's not what the article was speaking about. It was about Tampa (itself) being a small city, which it is.
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Old 06-10-2013, 04:47 AM
 
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.....and when you come back from Miami it looks even smaller than small.


So now bad areas of town are called "culturally eclectic & hippy"? Hmmm Interesting. WOW...Ok!
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in the Cuban-influenced Ybor City, just northeast of the city center, the west coast's hippest and most culturally eclectic quarter.
Now that was funny joke. "Financially secure community"? More than half of the "City of Tampa" is low income/welfare folks, so if "financial security" refers to the fact that they are "securely receiving benefits" then sure we can call it that, but otherwise this guy is living on a cloud somewhere. I hate it when people who don't live here talk about Tampa. These people are looney's!
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Today, little seems to stand in the way of Tampa's continued emergence as a forward-thinking and financially secure community.
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Old 06-10-2013, 05:02 AM
 
Location: Hernando County, FL
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Now that was funny joke. "Financially secure community"? More than half of the "City of Tampa" is low income/welfare folks, so if "financial security" refers to the fact that they are "securely receiving benefits" then sure we can call it that, but otherwise this guy is living on a cloud somewhere. I hate it when people who don't live here talk about Tampa. These people are looney's!
You know what is even worse than people that don't live here talking about Tampa is?
People that do live here yet still spew wildly inaccurate ****e.
And before you try to turn this into me saying Tampa is great financially, no, I understand it has some problems with the foreclosures and such but your post is not even close to being factual.
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Old 06-10-2013, 11:02 AM
 
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I went to IKEA yesterday and drove from Pinellas to Gandy, then Bayshore, Channelside to IKEA(nice scenic drive for the most part). Having lived in NYC (late 80's and 90's - blah), to me Tampa does not look small; it looks rather sprawling, buildings are spaced out , like everywhere here, as opposed to many cities up North. Downtown can use a few more buildings, but it's pretty decent for the most part. Not sure about the negativity with downtown but to me it doesn't look bad or small. Btw, the Selmon Expwy Connector is coming along pretty nice.

I think northerners have a skewed perception about Tampa/Tampa Bay and want the area to look less than what it is (inferiority complex for what they seem to lack, i.e. weather/a more relaxed lifestyle?)
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Old 06-10-2013, 11:41 AM
 
Location: Florida
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So Yahoo thinks Tampa is a small town, boo hoo. Deal with it.
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Old 06-10-2013, 11:46 AM
 
Location: Tampa, FL
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I like the medium-sidedness or smallness of the area. There's nowhere the sprawl that the JAX area has. I spent a week in JAX last month and the traffic was miserable, imo.

I really enjoy our area. The drive I make weekly over the Skyway Bridge has become fun (I used to be phobic of that bridge). The sights of people fishing, sailing, and windsurfing is really awesome, imo.
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Old 06-10-2013, 12:52 PM
 
Location: Saint Petersburg, FL
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I went to IKEA yesterday and drove from Pinellas to Gandy, then Bayshore, Channelside to IKEA(nice scenic drive for the most part). Having lived in NYC (late 80's and 90's - blah), to me Tampa does not look small; it looks rather sprawling, buildings are spaced out , like everywhere here, as opposed to many cities up North. Downtown can use a few more buildings, but it's pretty decent for the most part. Not sure about the negativity with downtown but to me it doesn't look bad or small. Btw, the Selmon Expwy Connector is coming along pretty nice.

I think northerners have a skewed perception about Tampa/Tampa Bay and want the area to look less than what it is (inferiority complex for what they seem to lack, i.e. weather/a more relaxed lifestyle?)

I've lived in lots of different places, including Detroit and NYC and it doesn't seem small to me, either. I suppose that has a lot to with Tampa running right into Pinellas with St. Pete. I always consider the entire metro area, rather than just what is found within one city limit or the other. It seems odd to me to think of it any other way, but apparently there's some sort of status that goes along with having the most people within the city limits?
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Old 06-10-2013, 01:48 PM
 
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I went to IKEA yesterday and drove from Pinellas to Gandy, then Bayshore, Channelside to IKEA(nice scenic drive for the most part). Having lived in NYC (late 80's and 90's - blah), to me Tampa does not look small; it looks rather sprawling, buildings are spaced out , like everywhere here, as opposed to many cities up North. Downtown can use a few more buildings, but it's pretty decent for the most part. Not sure about the negativity with downtown but to me it doesn't look bad or small. Btw, the Selmon Expwy Connector is coming along pretty nice.

I think northerners have a skewed perception about Tampa/Tampa Bay and want the area to look less than what it is (inferiority complex for what they seem to lack, i.e. weather/a more relaxed lifestyle?)
The fact that is "sprawled" doesn't equal "big town".
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