In times like these, do you enjoy living in Tampa? (Clearwater: unemployment rate, salary)

[Tampaite]

Originally Posted by bobandsherry

Wow - what's that based on?

Hurricane Katrina.

https://www.thebalance.com/hurricane...ffects-3306023

[SouthSota14]

Originally Posted by Tampaite

It's not about hurricane - it's about jobs and amenities.

If a hurricane would hit Tampa, it would take 10-15 years to rebuild plus you are more likely to be laid off from your job or let go with businesses suffering losses so definitely something to consider for future.

Right its about how easy or hard is it going to be to secure a job, even a decent lower paying one with more hours, the ability to make friendships. This sort of thing factors in even more I think. Come to think of it though, FL is in the right spot to fail and St Pete where I am sure seems like the perfect city to be cursed and go through a boom cycle only to have the balloon burst again at some point. This city will see an exodus. Tampa isn't that great either but I'd say it does better out of the 2.

[Benny the Mutt]

Originally Posted by SouthSota14

Right its about how easy or hard is it going to be to secure a job, even a decent lower paying one with more hours, the ability to make friendships. This sort of thing factors in even more I think. Come to think of it though, FL is in the right spot to fail and St Pete where I am sure seems like the perfect city to be cursed and go through a boom cycle only to have the balloon burst again at some point. This city will see an exodus. Tampa isn't that great either but I'd say it does better out of the 2.

Exodus? Maybe that would help the crowding. Remember: Happiness is a northerner going home. Total joy is when he takes 2 more with him.

Florida was a much better place before all the drifters and dreamers started to come for their shot at it, realized that the weather was intolerable for them and there are limited opportunities for their "skills". They dreamed, they came, they couldn't hack it and moved on. It would be nice if the wannabe transplants did their homework before making their move we would have a better overall situation in Florida instead of having to sweep up after the carpetbaggers move on.

Thanks for playing!

[KPB]

Originally Posted by Benny the Mutt

Exodus? Maybe that would help the crowding. Remember: Happiness is a northerner going home. Total joy is when he takes 2 more with him.

Florida was a much better place before all the drifters and dreamers started to come for their shot at it, realized that the weather was intolerable for them and there are limited opportunities for their "skills". They dreamed, they came, they couldn't hack it and moved on. It would be nice if the wannabe transplants did their homework before making their move we would have a better overall situation in Florida instead of having to sweep up after the carpetbaggers move on.

Thanks for playing!

Best post of the day! THANK YOU !

It would be nice if the folks that left the State for Irma would've stayed out. They weren't Floridian's anyways.
j/k (sorta kinda)

[Benny the Mutt]

Originally Posted by KPB

Best post of the day! THANK YOU !

It would be nice if the folks that left the State for Irma would've stayed out. They weren't Floridian's anyways.
j/k (sorta kinda)

Thank you. I tried to rate you but I guess I have to rate others before I am allowed to rate you again. If I lived in a mobile or a crummy house I would go to a local shelter. Sitting in that traffic for hours is insane.

[KPB]

Originally Posted by Benny the Mutt

Thank you. I tried to rate you but I guess I have to rate others before I am allowed to rate you again. If I lived in a mobile or a crummy house I would go to a local shelter. Sitting in that traffic for hours is insane.

Almost as insane as waiting HOURS in line for a 10 bag limit of sand. This is FL., you can get as much sand as you care to bag rite in your own neighborhood, side of the road, or job-site.
Or people that live off drinking just about a couple soda's a day but now they need 10 cases of water all of a sudden, no way can they bottle there own water at home?
The news/media has some of these people loosing there minds, no common sense.

[Roscoe Conkling]

Originally Posted by Benny the Mutt

Exodus? Maybe that would help the crowding. Remember: Happiness is a northerner going home. Total joy is when he takes 2 more with him.

Florida was a much better place before all the drifters and dreamers started to come for their shot at it, realized that the weather was intolerable for them and there are limited opportunities for their "skills". They dreamed, they came, they couldn't hack it and moved on. It would be nice if the wannabe transplants did their homework before making their move we would have a better overall situation in Florida instead of having to sweep up after the carpetbaggers move on.

Thanks for playing!

Your post is a bit like a half-naked Amazonian tribe being discovered for the first time and waving their bows and arrows at the helicopter.
Florida was built by transplants from other parts of the US and the rest of the world and much of today's population could probably trace their lineage back to them.
Those so-called Northerners and many other people who move to the state also bring with them skills,investment and dollars to spend.
And those old times when Florida was a better place before all the drifters and dreamers started moving here ? It was a swamp.
The day people stop moving to Florida is the day Florida should start getting worried.

[gypsychic]

Originally Posted by KPB

Almost as insane as waiting HOURS in line for a 10 bag limit of sand. This is FL., you can get as much sand as you care to bag rite in your own neighborhood, side of the road, or job-site.
Or people that live off drinking just about a couple soda's a day but now they need 10 cases of water all of a sudden, no way can they bottle there own water at home?
The news/media has some of these people loosing there minds, no common sense.

I know, right? I kept thinking - what is WRONG with these people? It is simple enough to fill containers from your faucet ahead of time, why does anyone need cases and cases of water.... and yes, the sand, same deal. The media definitely brainwashes a lot of people.

[SouthSota14]

Originally Posted by Benny the Mutt

Exodus? Maybe that would help the crowding. Remember: Happiness is a northerner going home. Total joy is when he takes 2 more with him.

Florida was a much better place before all the drifters and dreamers started to come for their shot at it, realized that the weather was intolerable for them and there are limited opportunities for their "skills". They dreamed, they came, they couldn't hack it and moved on. It would be nice if the wannabe transplants did their homework before making their move we would have a better overall situation in Florida instead of having to sweep up after the carpetbaggers move on.

Thanks for playing!

I don't like your smart a55 answer to me for starters. I did not come here to be a "carpetbagger". I may have been somewhat a drifter but I try my best to be a good living person. I ran into other scumbags though and its just not worth living here anymore for me. I was one of the good ones and after I go guess what, you're going to still have much worse problem people than I ever could be. But no, I am not no carpetbagger, I am not a scammer or someone who thought FL would solve all my problems. I moved here a bit more easy because my stepdad was here at the time. I moved all around TB including South Sarasota being the furthest I went. Theres crap jobs in this state period or theres no jobs. Its ridiculous really how people literally try and make this a long term living place, even you rather than make it strictly a vacation place. NEVER AGAIN. When I leave I plan never to return. I'll find some other "retirement" locale like Rocky Point or something WHEN IM 64. I'm going back to MA and staying this time.

[SouthSota14]

Originally Posted by Roscoe Conkling

Your post is a bit like a half-naked Amazonian tribe being discovered for the first time and waving their bows and arrows at the helicopter.
Florida was built by transplants from other parts of the US and the rest of the world and much of today's population could probably trace their lineage back to them.
Those so-called Northerners and many other people who move to the state also bring with them skills,investment and dollars to spend.
And those old times when Florida was a better place before all the drifters and dreamers started moving here ? It was a swamp.
The day people stop moving to Florida is the day Florida should start getting worried.

I hope it happens believe me. I want FL to have an exodus. I am going, I am sick of it, the people and everything. More should follow if they have a brain in their head and if they HAVE to come back, they should save up where they move to full time and VISIT for a few weeks. FL was never designed for full time living but people kept trying to force an unnatural fit. Only the FL cracker types and the Indians really can live here full time in my eyes. Every Midwest dreamer should go home at the very least. I truly 100% believe I was or my type of transplant was one of the best you had on a character level even if I didn't make the money. I still brought enough to survive or not get totally in debt but I had enough of it now. I am burnt out. I plan to go back to MA before winter.