Taking job in Clearwater. Should I move to Clearwater, Tampa or St. Pete?

[muta]

I live in and work in St. Pete. I used to commute over from Tampa, and I have to tell you, what a hell hole Tampa roads are. Never seen anything like the bottle neck where everything comes together into TWO lanes. Who thought of that I used to ask myself as I was sitting there every single morning. The most it ever took me to get to work was 3 hours and 17 minutes when I lived in Tampa. I'm not saying I agree with it, but I understood road rage and how it develops. When I would go home at night I'd actually wait to avoid traffic and get home in 30 minutes or so. Finally I just got so tired of living on the Tampa freeway system I moved over to St. Pete. The Tampa bottleneck two lanes is the only reason I moved from a place I loved to St. Pete. I cringe when I have to go back to Tampa for anything. I'd never move over there if I can help it.

My personal belief is you should stay in Clearwater or St. Pete and use US 19 to go to Clearwater from St. Pete. It will save you a lot of time and agony. If you want to experience the Tampa night life, drive over for that, and come back when your done as opposed to live around it and spend your life in the car going to and coming home from work.

[misterjab]

Thanks for the response. I DO NOT have the patience to sit in traffic like that, so for that fact alone....I might just have to stay in St. Pete or Clearwater..lol

I mean at the end of the day, it's not like I am going to be enjoying nightlife during the workweek anyway. However, I will need to be close to shopping, great restaurants, starbucks..(smile) - during the workweek. If I can get all of that in St. Pete, then I guess I can deal with it. Also, I've heard that St. Pete is sort of run down..or is that just South St. Pete?

[muta]

Originally Posted by misterjab

Thanks for the response. I DO NOT have the patience to sit in traffic like that, so for that fact alone....I might just have to stay in St. Pete or Clearwater..lol ?

Nor did I. Like I said, the ONLY reason I move over here was to stop driving in Tampa traffic. Chicago, Detroit, Twin Cities, even Atlanta or Houston isn't as bad. Some will disagree about Atlanta, but at least they have 6 lanes and a car pool lane. LA might be worse from what I hear, but I have no intentions of going there to find out.

Originally Posted by misterjab

I mean at the end of the day, it's not like I am going to be enjoying nightlife during the workweek anyway. However, I will need to be close to shopping, great restaurants, starbucks..(smile) - during the workweek. If I can get all of that in St. Pete, then I guess I can deal with it. Also, I've heard that St. Pete is sort of run down..or is that just South St. Pete?

Oh I guess you didn't hear about Starbucks. The Florida gov't passed a law forbiding them to come into our state.

South St. Pete is run down and there are parts of Kenneth city that are run down. It's mostly middle class in St. Pete and I've never unsafe. I work downtown St. Pete and we have a huge homeless problem and while I don't feel unsafe (I'm a big dude, intimidating looking guy though) I could understand why some women might be feeling unsafe, but I don't really even hear that to much from the women who work in my building. To me that's the biggest problem in downtown St. Pete. I live in North St. Pete and everything is been pretty good so far here. I hope I didn't just jinx myself.

Yeah, that Starbucks thing was a joke, they are on every freaking corner.