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Old 04-15-2018, 06:04 AM
 
Location: South Tampa, Maui, Paris
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Oh I think I must have not been clear in my post. I'm not looking to live in some sterile cookie cutter suburb (which based on what I'm seeing in Google images, is what Westchase looks like). I am looking for an urban neighborhood close to downtown that has older homes and people my age but yet doesn't look like the bad part of town. Seminole Heights looks like the bad part of town that is in the very very initial stages of gentrifying but is nowhere close to being nice. I will look into Hyde Park and south Tampa. As far as missing the good parts of Seminole Heights, I did not see any and I spent a week driving through there. In fact the photos of the trash on the front yard were taken on one of Old Seminole Heights' best streets according to our realtor. I was also not impressed with the homes along the river; ugly homes, no sidewalks and there was a very bad odor coming from the river. Not sure if that is maybe only part of the year? How polluted is that river? Iit was gross and a dealbreaker. I'm going to plan another week in Tampa and tour south Tampa next.

Lots of river pollution videos here.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEITqhzZdic
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Old 04-15-2018, 06:28 AM
 
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Oh I think I must have not been clear in my post. I'm not looking to live in some sterile cookie cutter suburb (which based on what I'm seeing in Google images, is what Westchase looks like). I am looking for an urban neighborhood close to downtown that has older homes and people my age but yet doesn't look like the bad part of town. Seminole Heights looks like the bad part of town that is in the very very initial stages of gentrifying but is nowhere close to being nice. I will look into Hyde Park and south Tampa. As far as missing the good parts of Seminole Heights, I did not see any and I spent a week driving through there. In fact the photos of the trash on the front yard were taken on one of Old Seminole Heights' best streets according to our realtor. I was also not impressed with the homes along the river; ugly homes, no sidewalks and there was a very bad odor coming from the river. Not sure if that is maybe only part of the year? How polluted is that river? Iit was gross and a dealbreaker. I'm going to plan another week in Tampa and tour south Tampa next.
That river bottom is loaded with DDT and lead fred. 80 years of run off adds up and pre 1975 days all kinds of stuff was dumped into that river in the 1920's- 50's time frame.
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Old 04-15-2018, 07:58 AM
 
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That river bottom is loaded with DDT and lead fred. 80 years of run off adds up and pre 1975 days all kinds of stuff was dumped into that river in the 1920's- 50's time frame.
Some of Tampa's water comes from the Hillsborough River.
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Old 04-15-2018, 08:11 AM
 
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Some of Tampa's water comes from the Hillsborough River.
It's no much the water, its the muck below it that is 10 ft thick. Dig down 4 ft and you are back in the late 1930's. Dig down 8ft and you back to the mid 1800's when everything was nice and clean. Just think what all was dumped from chem plants and peeps terlets pre 1960's when there were no regs on dumping.
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Old 04-15-2018, 09:12 AM
 
Location: Tampa, Fl
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Oh I think I must have not been clear in my post.
Oh, you were...

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I'm not looking to live in some sterile cookie cutter suburb
Tell us more...

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I am looking for an urban neighborhood close to downtown
Uh huh...

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photos of the trash on the front yard
Stick to your sterile cookie cutter suburbs. I heard Brandon was nice.
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Old 04-15-2018, 09:16 AM
 
Location: South Tampa, Maui, Paris
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Oh, you were...



Tell us more...



Uh huh...



Stick to your sterile cookie cutter suburbs. I heard Brandon was nice.


I'm sure the OP is smart enough to realize that there ARE urban areas near downtown Tampa that are not inundated by loiterers, trash and blight. OP, please refer back to my neighborhood recs.
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Old 04-15-2018, 09:17 AM
 
Location: South Tampa, Maui, Paris
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Some of Tampa's water comes from the Hillsborough River.
Yuck
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Old 04-15-2018, 09:18 AM
 
Location: South Tampa, Maui, Paris
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It's no much the water, its the muck below it that is 10 ft thick. Dig down 4 ft and you are back in the late 1930's. Dig down 8ft and you back to the mid 1800's when everything was nice and clean. Just think what all was dumped from chem plants and peeps terlets pre 1960's when there were no regs on dumping.

This is disturbing
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Old 04-15-2018, 10:03 AM
 
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Ya but they can turn it Green when ever they need too. Come to think about it, if you stand too close you might turn green as well.
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Old 04-15-2018, 10:38 AM
 
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This is disturbing
Just think what all the petro and chem plants dumped into the ground water, rivers and lakes from the 1920's to the 70's.
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