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Old 07-30-2017, 02:23 PM
 
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Thinking of moving to Florida from a larger city up north little worried about Tampa population but like the city. Thinking Dunedin.

This had me thinking Everytime I have been down there to honeymoon island Clearwater Beach , the beach St park with the fort they were not overcrowded it was nice.

If there is three million people in Tampa metro do people just stop going to beach and get bored if it?
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Old 07-30-2017, 02:30 PM
 
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Yes. Sometimes I've gone a full yr without going to the beach. When I have gone, maybe 4 hrs, then gone. There's much more to do then go to the beach. But you are absolutely correct. It has gotten congested and won't get better. Infrastructure and attractive housing developement isn't keeping up: crappy looking subdivisions and strip malls all over the place, overcrowded roadways.

Not sure what a good solution is other than to bail just before it gets intolerable. There are rural areas but health care and other necessities aren't readily available.
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Old 07-30-2017, 02:37 PM
 
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Thinking of moving to Florida from a larger city up north little worried about Tampa population but like the city. Thinking Dunedin.

This had me thinking Everytime I have been down there to honeymoon island Clearwater Beach , the beach St park with the fort they were not overcrowded it was nice.

If there is three million people in Tampa metro do people just stop going to beach and get bored if it?
Just too hot for many so life is not a beach for them. I have not been to a beach since 1984. Only time i see a beach is when i'm heading offshore to fish and coming back.
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Old 07-30-2017, 02:39 PM
 
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Well I am coming from Chicago so I am hoping after living in Chicago Tampa will seem a slower pace to me.
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Old 07-30-2017, 02:43 PM
 
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So if you do not go to beach you spend a lot of time at pool? Or doing water sports in the bay?

I am surprised three times I was down there past two years never had a problem parking at honeymoon island or fort de Soto park hope it stays that way !!
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Old 07-30-2017, 02:43 PM
 
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The beaches here are pretty nice, but the novelty will wear off after a couple years if you move down here. That goes double for summer, when the weather is brutal and Gulf is a steam bath.

Ft. Desoto is a park and is nice but desolate, which is part of the reason why not a lot of people go compared to, say, Clearwater or St. Pete Beach. Also depends on what time of year you visit. Obviously the tourism #s hit a low point when the weather is disgustingly hot.

Lots of folks here have backyard pools.
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Old 07-30-2017, 02:44 PM
 
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I just read 1000 people moving to Florida a day but read other article millions left.
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Old 07-30-2017, 02:44 PM
 
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Well I am coming from Chicago so I am hoping after living in Chicago Tampa will seem a slower pace to me.
The traffic to and from the beaches is insane. Now with a warming planet and warmer water temps more peeps are getting flesh eating sores on them from the water.

I would stay away jay. Go when it is cooler.
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Old 07-30-2017, 02:48 PM
 
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So if you do not go to beach you spend a lot of time at pool? Or doing water sports in the bay?

I am surprised three times I was down there past two years never had a problem parking at honeymoon island or fort de Soto park hope it stays that way !!
Kayak, bike, run, golf, tennis, attend mlb, nfl, nhl, concerts, Broadway series, orchestra downtown Tampa or St Pete.


I have five pools where I live. When I swim, I do laps. If I sit by the pool, I'm bored and reading a book. Rare.
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Old 07-30-2017, 02:49 PM
 
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The beaches here are pretty nice, but the novelty will wear off after a couple years if you move down here. That goes double for summer, when the weather is brutal and Gulf is a steam bath.
Yikes well I plan to rent one year and after that it will be buy or move somewhere else Charleston was another place on my list but you can only visit so many places . In the past two years I visited

Ashville nc
Savannah, ga
Miami
Pensacola
New Orleans


I lived in San Diego and I need lower cost of living so Tampa is at the top of my list I actually am coming in the next month. Want to live close to water and enjoy the emerald water over the Atlantic.

I have not been to Tampa in it's hottest months but was in new Orleans in summer had to walk around with a towel.

The hot water might bother me is there more bacteria in the gulf like this flesh eating bacteria when the water gets so hot?
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