For Northerners moving to Tampa - DON'T COME HERE! (insurance, houses)

[kobraboy]

It's been almost 2 months and am still struggling to like Tampa....not that I had a choice in moving here

- This place has no "living" historic areas
- No restaurants worth anything
- Traffic - you gotta see the volume to believe it, the traffic lights are SOOOO F*ING LOOOONGGG
- People drive like maniacs here
- You'd think the people would be more active with the weather being nice - the people are fat and ugly and you don't see anyone walking around - the tennis courts are empty, the swimming pools are empty, the jogging trails are empty
- If you are an active, younger adult (20s, 30s, 40s), you'd be hard pressed to find others like you
- If are a white collar worker with higher level of education from a good university, you'd be hard pressed to find others like you
- This place is like a huge suburb of 2 million lower middle class, blue collar people with hobos mixed in
- the houses are CHEAAAPPP with absolutely no character at all
- The beaches are waaay overated.
- This is not a cosmopolitan place at all
- Auto insurance is ridiculous because of nitwit drivers
- They consider themselves "the South" but I don't think that's correct at all. "The South" had some culture, but Tampa has zilch.
- If you are thinking this is somewhat of an ocean-side community - it's not and neither does it feel like it.
- The less said about their voting patterns the better - but it's not surprising considering the way they think (or not).

[tampaguy03]

[quote=kobraboy;1988526]It's been almost 2 months and am still struggling to like Tampa....not that I had a choice in moving here


I feel sorry that you are struggling, kobraboy, please reach out if you need any assistance finding any good in this area. I can help you find answers to all of your comments in your post, just let me know, been here 20 years from New York.

[Spongedaddy]

Originally Posted by tampaguy03

I feel sorry that you are struggling, kobraboy, please reach out if you need any assistance finding any good in this area. I can help you find answers to all of your comments in your post, just let me know, been here 20 years from New York.

I doubt you can help him. He is just unhappy and wants to let everyone know he is superior to Florida.

[JO783]

Meh. Just moved here from NY, and while you are dead on about the drivers, I'm quite content with Tampa as a whole, though definitely would like to meet some more people my age (mid-20's).

[nicolepsy]

i agree that traffic is bad (though it is bad in some other cities also) but i see people walking and running all the time and have noticed that the people here are MUCH more attractive than where i came from. MUCH more attractive and active. They are friendlier also.

[daniellefort]

[quote=kobraboy;1988526]....not that I had a choice in moving here
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That's your problem. Not too many people would be happy either if they didn't have a choice to move somewhere they didn't want to be.

[bnepler]

The drivers are from the northern cities. And by the way, "do you want some cheese with that wine". Sucks to be you....

[gypsychic]

Originally Posted by kobraboy

It's been almost 2 months and am still struggling to like Tampa....not that I had a choice in moving here

- This place has no "living" historic areas
- No restaurants worth anything
- Traffic - you gotta see the volume to believe it, the traffic lights are SOOOO F*ING LOOOONGGG
- People drive like maniacs here
- You'd think the people would be more active with the weather being nice - the people are fat and ugly and you don't see anyone walking around - the tennis courts are empty, the swimming pools are empty, the jogging trails are empty
- If you are an active, younger adult (20s, 30s, 40s), you'd be hard pressed to find others like you
- If are a white collar worker with higher level of education from a good university, you'd be hard pressed to find others like you
- This place is like a huge suburb of 2 million lower middle class, blue collar people with hobos mixed in
- the houses are CHEAAAPPP with absolutely no character at all
- The beaches are waaay overated.
- This is not a cosmopolitan place at all
- Auto insurance is ridiculous because of nitwit drivers
- They consider themselves "the South" but I don't think that's correct at all. "The South" had some culture, but Tampa has zilch.
- If you are thinking this is somewhat of an ocean-side community - it's not and neither does it feel like it.
- The less said about their voting patterns the better - but it's not surprising considering the way they think (or not).

When I first read this post, I had mixed emotions - on the one hand it couldn't be more bashing and insulting, but it's so ridicuously over the top I can't stop laughing! Like "everyone is fat and ugly," and we "are all blue collar workers with hobos mixed in". And I am not even going to address the final comment!

It's one thing not to like a place, but I continually wonder why te mods let posts like this stand. But then again, it might serve to actually deter any more like him from coming down!

[NeedAChangeFromFL]

This could not possibly be more of the TRUTH about Tampa. Well said.



[quote=kobraboy;1988526]It's been almost 2 months and am still struggling to like Tampa....not that I had a choice in moving here

- This place has no "living" historic areas
- No restaurants worth anything
- Traffic - you gotta see the volume to believe it, the traffic lights are SOOOO F*ING LOOOONGGG
- People drive like maniacs here
- You'd think the people would be more active with the weather being nice - the people are fat and ugly and you don't see anyone walking around - the tennis courts are empty, the swimming pools are empty, the jogging trails are empty
- If you are an active, younger adult (20s, 30s, 40s), you'd be hard pressed to find others like you
- If are a white collar worker with higher level of education from a good university, you'd be hard pressed to find others like you
- This place is like a huge suburb of 2 million lower middle class, blue collar people with hobos mixed in
- the houses are CHEAAAPPP with absolutely no character at all
- The beaches are waaay overated.
- This is not a cosmopolitan place at all
- Auto insurance is ridiculous because of nitwit drivers
- They consider themselves "the South" but I don't think that's correct at all. "The South" had some culture, but Tampa has zilch.
- If you are thinking this is somewhat of an ocean-side community - it's not and neither does it feel like it.
- The less said about their voting patterns the better - but it's not surprising considering the way they think (or not).

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[Spongedaddy]

It is no surprise that people here, much like the rest of the world, cannot seperate opinion from fact. So NeedAChangeFromFL might want a name change to IAmMorallySuperiorToFlorida.

[quote=NeedAChangeFromFL;1991018]This could not possibly be more of the TRUTH about Tampa. Well said.

Originally Posted by kobraboy

It's been almost 2 months and am still struggling to like Tampa....not that I had a choice in moving here

- This place has no "living" historic areas
- No restaurants worth anything
- Traffic - you gotta see the volume to believe it, the traffic lights are SOOOO F*ING LOOOONGGG
- People drive like maniacs here
- You'd think the people would be more active with the weather being nice - the people are fat and ugly and you don't see anyone walking around - the tennis courts are empty, the swimming pools are empty, the jogging trails are empty
- If you are an active, younger adult (20s, 30s, 40s), you'd be hard pressed to find others like you
- If are a white collar worker with higher level of education from a good university, you'd be hard pressed to find others like you
- This place is like a huge suburb of 2 million lower middle class, blue collar people with hobos mixed in
- the houses are CHEAAAPPP with absolutely no character at all
- The beaches are waaay overated.
- This is not a cosmopolitan place at all
- Auto insurance is ridiculous because of nitwit drivers
- They consider themselves "the South" but I don't think that's correct at all. "The South" had some culture, but Tampa has zilch.
- If you are thinking this is somewhat of an ocean-side community - it's not and neither does it feel like it.
- The less said about their voting patterns the better - but it's not surprising considering the way they think (or not).

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