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Old 04-08-2021, 02:46 PM
 
Location: Iowa
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I have posted before regarding Lakeland Fl. I hope this is the correct forum to post about Riverview since it is a suburb of Tampa. Finally I am retiring and hoping to move by my best friend in the Riverview FL area. I am African American and my family including my 9 year old granddaughter will come as well at some point. I'm still a little scared to move to Florida but with racial division so bad in the world I am not sure any state is a good bet to relocate to. My biggest fear is buying a house by people that will not want me there because of my skin color... My best friend is white and not sure she really understands the fear.
Good place to go? Accepting? Other places close to Riverview? Tampa better?
I know Florida is a really red state which is concerning to me as well. I'm pretty resilient so I can rise above most of the political fray.
At some point I may get a part time job. I'm a Social Worker and Florida doesn't have reciprocity with other states so not sure I want to jump through hoops to stay in my profession.

Thanks for any insight!
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Old 04-08-2021, 03:28 PM
 
Location: Florida
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While Hillsborough county tents to vote 'blue' there's a lot of 'red' here as well. You'll surely run across racists here.
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Old 04-08-2021, 03:41 PM
 
Location: SW Florida
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I wish I could tell you that things will be fine. I have a neighbor in my 55+ community who's black, she's lived here from the start even before it was 55+ and she's certainly a minority here and this is a red county (Manatee). I also have a friend who rents up in Sun City Center and seems to be fine. But I'm not in their shoes. Tampa area is certainly more integrated.
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Old 04-08-2021, 03:56 PM
 
Location: Florida & Arizona
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You'll be fine in Riverview. You're overreacting, for sure.

Yes, there are racist people here, but it's unlikely you'll ever encounter one knowingly. You're probably more likely to encounter one in Iowa than you are in Riverview.

RM
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Old 04-08-2021, 04:00 PM
 
Location: Florida
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You don’t have anything to worry about. Tampa/Riverview don’t have those types of issues.
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Old 04-08-2021, 05:31 PM
 
Location: USA
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There may be people who are disturbed by you and your granddaughter, but one of my neighbors got concerned that so many people are moving into my subdivision with children. He doesn't like all the commotion they cause. People are sometimes strange.

The point is that you shouldn't focus on the artificial identifications of red or blue state when looking for problems. All states have a mix of people. No one is unidimensional. I don't think you should have any extraordinary problems in the Tampa Bay area.
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Old 04-08-2021, 05:37 PM
 
Location: Florida
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You don’t have anything to worry about. Tampa/Riverview don’t have those types of issues.
One of my neighbors was looking to buy in this new subdivision. They are black. They looked at one of the already built houses and put in an offer, which was accepted. Next time they went to look at the house, the neighbor behind them had erected a new flagpole and had a large confederate flag on it, in the back yard, just feet from the property line.

Don't think it doesn't happen here. It does.

Thankfully, when they went to the builder and said they were uncomfortable buying with this new information, the builder was appalled and allowed them to switch properties without any issue.

The property that put up the horrible flag was adjacent to the new subdivision so there was nothing the builder could do.
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Old 04-08-2021, 05:48 PM
 
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Florida doesn't have an exclusive on idiots.
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Old 04-09-2021, 12:36 PM
 
Location: Tampa
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I have posted before regarding Lakeland Fl. I hope this is the correct forum to post about Riverview since it is a suburb of Tampa. Finally I am retiring and hoping to move by my best friend in the Riverview FL area. I am African American and my family including my 9 year old granddaughter will come as well at some point. I'm still a little scared to move to Florida but with racial division so bad in the world I am not sure any state is a good bet to relocate to. My biggest fear is buying a house by people that will not want me there because of my skin color... My best friend is white and not sure she really understands the fear.
Good place to go? Accepting? Other places close to Riverview? Tampa better?
I know Florida is a really red state which is concerning to me as well. I'm pretty resilient so I can rise above most of the political fray.
At some point I may get a part time job. I'm a Social Worker and Florida doesn't have reciprocity with other states so not sure I want to jump through hoops to stay in my profession.

Thanks for any insight!
Your location is Iowa and you are worried about racial issues in Florida? I could only imagine sticking out so much in Iowa. Does it work where this demographic is so small they don't see racism? Riverview has a good size of middle class African Americans. You will be fine. My mom moved to Apollo Beach recently and Im surprised by the diversity. I live in the city limits and the reserve is occurring in demographics.
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Old 04-09-2021, 02:55 PM
 
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I agree with the others in that you're more likely to experience overt racism in Iowa than here. You don't specify where in IA, but I checked census.gov demographic data for Riverview and the entire state of IA and here's what it came back with:

Black or African American alone, percent Riverview = 17.9% Iowa= 4.1%

Obviously Riverview is much smaller population-wise than the entire state of IA but you get the point.

As for job transfer, you would have the ability to apply by endorsement according to https://floridasmentalhealthprofessi...another-state/.
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